Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

A must-have guide for all companies undertaking service-oriented architecture (SOA) and IT governance Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for...

In The Souls of Cyberfolk, Thomas Foster traces the transformation of cyberpunk from a literary movement into a multimedia cultural phenomenon. He ...

From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches...

Should all academic writings be free for us by anyone on the Web? The Virtues of Openness examines the complex history of the concept of the open s...

We can't imagine our lives without the Internet. It is the tool of our existence; without it we couldn't work, plan our social and leisure activiti...

We can't imagine our lives without the Internet. It is the tool of our existence; without it we couldn't work, plan our social and leisure activiti...

As a collection of ideas and methodologies, systems thinking has made an impact in organizations and in particular in the information systems field...

As a collection of ideas and methodologies, systems thinking has made an impact in organizations and in particular in the information systems field...

Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies m...

Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborat...

Humans at Work in the Digital Age explores the roots of twenty-first-century cultures of digital textual labor, mapping the diverse physical and co...

Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms’ effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and ...

It’s the founding myth of humanities computing and digital humanities: In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Roberto Busa, S.J., persuaded IBM to of...

Have we resigned ourselves to a cyber-future that has been decided behind our backs? Why is technology - and our understanding of it - central to t...

Recent advances in digitization are transforming healthcare, education, tourism, information technology, and some other sectors. Social media analy...

This revised edition has more breadth and depth of coverage than the first edition. Information Technology: An Introduction for Today’s Digital Wor...

Every year, perhaps even every week, there is some new gadget, device, service, or other digital offering intended to make our lives easier, better...

Cyber Victimology provides a global socio-legal-victimological perspective on victimisation online, written in clear, non-technical terms, and pres...

The world has changed drastically over the past decade. The Internet has had a huge part in that, as it has made the world more accessible to anyon...

Digital technologies are influencing the way we learn, live, work, and exist in different contexts of society in the digital age. There are a varie...

While the metaverse is often marketed as a future utopia, the vision of the metaverse represents an attempt for private corporations to control the...