Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

The platform economy, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what are the ac...

Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology. Establishing the globa...

This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old an...

Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) is an annual strategic briefing that provides analytical and conceptual tools for the construction of 21st-century cult...

What is Quality of Life in a society that has embraced information and communication technology (ICT)? What is Wisdom in this kind of society? And ...

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications...

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code and coders are the ones who built it for us.In Coders, acc...

Many maintain that the arrival of computers networked across sovereign borders and physical barriers is a liberating force that will produce a glob...

The success of predictive large language models (PLLMs) like GPT3 and ChatGPT has created both enthusiasts and skeptics of their widespread practic...

Multilingual Digital Humanities explores the impact of monolingualismespecially Anglocentrismon digital practices in the humanities and social scie...

The unprecedented spread of false and misleading information is the flip side of the Internet's promise of universal access and information democra...

The unprecedented spread of false and misleading information is the flip side of the Internet's promise of universal access and information democra...

Empowering IoT with Big Data Analytics provides comprehensive coverage of major topics, tools, and techniques related to empowering IoT with big da...

This book explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing critical humanitarian challenges. It examines AIs rol...

This book explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing critical humanitarian challenges. It examines AIs rol...

Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a ...

Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a ...

The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing and researching Information and Communication T...

The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing and researching Information and Communication T...

A social robot is a robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules a...

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. We imagine that we are both in control of an...

This book examines the applications, trends and challenges of 5G Enabled technologies for Smart City and Urbanization systems. It addresses the cha...

The development of the internet, particularly the World Wide Web, is currently hitting its limitsboth technically and socio-culturally, as well as ...

Optimal Spending on Cybersecurity Measures: DevOps aims to discuss the integration of risk management methodologies within the DevOps process.This ...

When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian Dav...

To enact the books central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content...

This book provides important new insights into social issues in the rapidly growing field of esports, filling a gap in the literature that has, unt...

This book provides a holistic overview of the complexities of modern technological advances and their implications for crime and security. It exami...

This book provides a holistic overview of the complexities of modern technological advances and their implications for crime and security. It exami...

The metaverse offers a new way of interacting with the world via immersive and interactive technologies. It has the potential to change the way we ...

Developing robots to interact with humans is a complex interdisciplinary effort. While engineering and social science perspectives on designing hum...

Developing robots to interact with humans is a complex interdisciplinary effort. While engineering and social science perspectives on designing hum...

This book studies the evolution of sustainable green smart cities and demonstrates solutions for green environmental issues using modern industrial...

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