Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Int...

Cryptology, the mathematical and technical science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the humanistic study of natural or human languages, are typ...

Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consum...

The boundaries of citizenship have been blurred by global information systems--while the public and private spheres have been reshaped through g...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are widely heralded as an opportunity for the poor to have greater access to information that can...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are widely heralded as an opportunity for the poor to have greater access to information that can...

Dr Mary Aiken is the world's leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology - a discipline that combines psychology, criminology and technology to inve...

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Di...

In You are Not a Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how the internet is deadening personal interaction, stifling ...

The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's a...

Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bough...

The Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM) is the first major reference work to integrate fundamental concepts and research dir...