Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams for User Interface Design, TAMODIA 200...

In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social n...

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proce- th ings of the 11 International Conference on Product-Focused Softw...

The past decade has seen tremendous growth in the demand for biometrics and data security technologies in applications ranging from law enforcement...

Living in Digital Worlds investigates the relationship between human society and technology, as our private and particularly our public lives are i...

Digital Playgrounds explores the key developments, trends, debates, and controversies that have shaped childrens commercial digital play spaces ove...

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and s...

Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner ...

How can Twitter data be used to study individual-level human behavior and social interaction on a global scale? This book introduces readers to the...

In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the p...

The internet has altered how people engage with each other in myriad ways, including offering opportunities for people to act distrustfully. This f...

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools ...

This research textbook, designed for young Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers beginning their careers, surveys the research models and me...

Heute reicht Funktionalität nicht mehr aus, um die Benutzer von Internet- oder Desktop-Applikationen zu begeistern. Das Benutzererlebnis wird immer...

Business operations in large organizations today involve massive, interactive, and layered networks of teams and personnel collaborating across hie...

Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies i...

In recent years, the popularity of virtual worlds has increased significantly and they have consequently come under closer academic scrutiny. Paper...

Many of the significant developments of our era have resulted from advances in technology, including the design of large-scale systems; advances in...

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organization...

Multilayer networks, in particular multilayer social networks, where users belong to and interact on different networks at the same time, are an ac...

Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to tod...

This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting international and innovative scholarship with practical...