Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the Internet is one of the first books to bring philosophical insight to the d...

The dramatic advances in computer and telecommunications technologies such as the Internet, virtual reality, smart cards or multimedia applications...

Developments in information technology and the internet are taking place at an almost bewildering pace. Such improvements, however, are believed to...

Technological Choices applies the critical tools of archaeology to the subject of technology and its impact on humankind throughout the ages. An ex...

Human interaction with technology is constantly evolving, with rapid developments in online interaction, gaming, and artificial intelligence all im...

Human interaction with technology is constantly evolving, with rapid developments in online interaction, gaming, and artificial intelligence all im...

Ethics for Robots describes and defends a method for designing and evaluating ethics algorithms for autonomous machines, such as self-driving cars ...

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

Big Data, gathered together and re-analysed, can be used to form endless variations of our persons - so-called ‘data doubles’. Whilst never a preci...

Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present. States, organizations and indiv...

Recent shifts in new literacy studies have expanded definitions of text, reading/viewing, and literacy itself. The inclusion of non-traditional med...

With all our contemporary connectivity, are we really connected? What does the nature of connectivity tell us about interpersonal and community rel...

Cyberbullying in social media is one of the most important concerns in educational institutions at the K-12 and higher education levels today. Cybe...

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...