Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by...

Within the rapidly-growing arena of 'virtual worlds', such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs), individuals behave in particular ways, inf...

This Handbook is a detailed introduction to the numerous academic perspectives that apply to the study of the internet as a political, social and c...

The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When The Best Technology Series was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Today, they not only make...

How many times do you check something on the internet but find you are drifting aimlessly from one link to another? If you can't not answer the pho...

Nicholas Carr has made his name as an incisive writer on our complicated relationship with technology. Utopia Is Creepy, a sharp and often funny in...

The War on Privacy is lost, and states and corporations now collect more of our data than even they know what to do with. No one person or group ca...

This volume covers a wide spectrum of issues relating to economic and political development enabled by information and communication technology (IC...

If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and b...

This book argues that identity is changing profoundly and that money is changing equally profoundly. Because of technological change the two trends...

Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids ar...

Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are media. No longer conte...

While everyone is talking about big data, the truth is that understanding the little data--the stats that underlie newspaper headlines, stock repor...

In January 2012, millions participated in the now-infamous Internet blackout against the Stop Online Piracy Act, protesting the power it would have...

In this compelling book, Graeme Kirkpatrick argues that computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital a...

Australian police uncover a laptop filled with child pornography; Belgian investigators trace the videos to a Ukrainian studio where they were film...