Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Age of Cyberveillance is a collection of articles by distinguished authors from the US and Europe and present...

This edited collection brings together keynote articles from the journal Disability & Society to provide a comprehensive and though-provoking e...

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...

Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism correspond with the m...

Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their ...

Popular claims that new information technology will expand democratic and public spaces are problematic given the exclusive history of the public a...

Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their ...

The increasingly sophisticated and powerful information technology we are creating plays an ever more prominent role in facilitating interaction an...

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

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...

We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant...

We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant...

This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Wh...

Communication and collaboration via the Internet has risen to great prominence in recent years, especially with the rise of social networking, Web ...

The internet opens up new opportunities for citizens to organize and mobilize for action but it also provides new channels that established politic...

The transnational architecture of global information networks has made territorial borders less significant. Boundaries between spaces are becoming...

Published in association with the Society of American Archivists Trusting Records in the Cloud presents key findings of InterPARES Trust, an intern...

The spread of new information and communications technologies during the past two decades has helped reshape civic associations, political communit...

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to mat...

The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which m...

The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which m...

Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment explores issues that arise when digital records are entrusted to the cloud and will help professio...

We delegate more and more decisions and tasks to artificial agents, machine-learning mechanisms, and algorithmic procedures or, in other words, to ...

This book is written for the first security hire in an organization, either an individual moving into this role from within the organization or hir...