Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history. Frictionless and cheap digital networks circ...

Innovative research solutions increasingly require deep engagement with practitioners to manage the complex problems they are attempting to solve. ...

'Vital reading. This is the book on artificial intelligence we need right now.' Mike Krieger, cofounder of InstagramArtificial intelligence is rapi...

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and m...

An Entrepreneur Best Book of the YearFacebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists wa...

Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. Human beings need privacy just as much as they need community. Our need for so...

Mainstreaming Gays discusses a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, analyzing how queer production and interaction tha...

In recent years, UN agencies, global tech corporations, states and humanitarian NGOs have invested in advanced technologies from smart borders to d...

Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of Chinas Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerc...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how...

We are living in algorithmic times. From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed filtering, automated syst...

Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of Chinas Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerc...

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 ...

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing discipline. Fully updated in its second edition, t...

Computational media govern our experiences by externalizing our knowledge and memories, mining data from our behaviour to influence our decision-ma...

ThisvolumecontainstheworkshopproceedingsofARSPA-WITS2010,theJoint Workshop on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis and Issues in the ...

'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can'The great American poet, novelist and environmental a...

This work presents the latest development in the field of computational intelligence to advance Big Data and Cloud Computing concerning application...

The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants presents a formal conversation between an AI engineer, Peter, and a humanities researcher, Suman. The boo...