Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Joining a thriving field of new media, this collective volume authored by global academics features important research by thought leaders within co...

This book provides an integrated solution for security and safety in the home, covering both assistance in health monitoring and safety from strang...

In the months after the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 decision to repeal network neutrality as US policy, it is easy to forget the...

An award-winning journalist’s investigation into Amazon’s true impact on inequality. The market value of Amazon.com has exceeded one trillion dolla...

Rapid advancements in mobile computing and communication technology and recent technological progress have opened up a plethora of opportunities. T...

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

This revised edition has more breadth and depth of coverage than the first edition. Information Technology: An Introduction for Today’s Digital Wor...

No matter what you do for a living, how much time your apps save you, or how much entertainment your phone brings, it is possible to unplug--and fi...

The proliferation of information and communication technology tools in recent years has led many educators to revise the way they teach and structu...

"This is not a book I ever intended to write. It emerged as I worked to understand the events of September 11, 2001. It is my effort to make sense ...

As the "information superhighway" moves into the home through interactive media, enhanced telecom services, and hybrid appliances, interest continu...

Technology does not invite a close examination of its own consequences because of its lengthy, intimate, and inevitable relationship with culture. ...

Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing evolution in the w...

In the 21st century technology has become an essential part of teaching and learning. This manual provides practical advice on teaching in a wide r...

This book examines how the higher education environment is being shaped by new information technologies, with a particular focus on technologies ba...

This special issue calls for a greater awareness of computing as a critical area of study for those interested in educational studies. Its purpose ...

Online Communication provides an introduction to both the technologies of the Internet Age and their social implications. This innovative and timel...

In the wake of the dot-com shakeout of 2000, the time is ripe for a reappraisal of how information technology (IT) has created new environments for...

This book is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies. Simultaneously, it portrays young people's "thinking attitudes" in comp...

This wide-ranging volume presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure, assesses their pro...

Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) by social move...

Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in ...