Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions onlineand how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an ...

Jumpstarting books provide an avenue for makers to quickly master topical knowledge! Each book starts with instructions on how to install or init...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that cant be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current ...

An engaging look at how we have learned to live with innovation and new technologies through history. People have had trouble adapting to new te...

In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous i...

The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250 year long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we wo...

In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online. She received scores of hateful tweets, including a death threat. She was terrified, but once ...

In the new media world, advertisers are deciding who you are, how much you matter, and what you see and do The Internet is often hyped as a means t...

The main purpose of the eleven contributions to this volume is to reconsider and re-assess the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern soci...

Today more people live in cities than in the countryside, mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones and machines outnumber people on a new ...

The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequ...

Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently.David Byrne, ...