Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

For better or worse, the information and communication revolution has transformed our economic, cultural, and political world. On an individual sca...

Ubiquitous news, global information access, instantaneous reporting, interactivity, multimedia content, extreme customization: Journalism is underg...

For better or worse, the information and communication revolution has transformed our economic, cultural, and political world. On an individual sca...

Mobile devices’ impact on daily life has raised relevant questions regarding public and private space and communication. Both the technological env...

Blockchain is no longer just about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general. Instead, it can be seen as a disruptive, revolutionary technology which ...

This text asks how we can ensure that computers are used for socially beneficial purposes. These papers represent an integration of research into t...

Expanding on the work in the volume Multiplayer, this new book explores several other areas related to social gaming in detail. The aim is to go be...

This timely volume highlights the novel ways in which cutting-edge virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) technology is being used in STEM educa...

Separating hype from fact, this text investigates the fate of embodiment in the information age. It relates three interwoven stories: how informati...

The calculus of IT support for the banking, securities and insurance industries has changed dramatically and rapidly over the past few years. Unhea...

In the modern world, most gross product is created within Enterprise firms, project programs, state agencies, transnational corporations and their ...

Beth Porter presents The Net Effect exploring not just how it evolved and what it does, but how it relates to the way we live. Most writing about t...

The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture.

Although computer-based tests (CBT) have been administered for many years, improvements in the speed and power of computers coupled with reductions...

"Offers an overview of validation and the current regulatory climate and provides a compendium of the regulations, guidance documents, issues, comp...

The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a ...

The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a ...

The first volume in a major new series, this book will be an essential read for all those who need to deal with the causes and consequences of rapi...

This thought-provoking book demonstrates how we can tackle challenges, ranging from energy conservation to economic and social innovation, using th...

This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of inequality and the stratification of the digital sphere. Grounded in classical sociological ...

A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working from home, by two experts who work — and live — together. Out of Office is a book...

Despite repeated predictions of the demise of America and the English-speaking nations as the world's predominant culture, James C. Bennett believe...

Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclus...

Social informatics examines how society is influenced by digital technologies and how digital technologies are shaped by political, economic, and s...

This volume provides the basis for contemporary privacy and social media research and informs global as well as local initiatives to address issues...

Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player...

Cyber Security Innovation for the Digital Economy considers possible solutions to the relatively new scientific-technical problem of developing inn...

Feminist War Games? explores the critical intersections and collisions between feminist values and perceptions of war, by asking whether feminist v...

Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player...

Although many digital platforms continue to appropriate and reconfigure familiar forms of media experience, this is an environment which no longer ...

Feminist War Games? explores the critical intersections and collisions between feminist values and perceptions of war, by asking whether feminist v...

This guide to tackling the gender imbalance in technology professions offers expertise, initiatives and true stories to support those wishing to br...