Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

The manual construction of formal domain conceptualizations (ontologies) is labor-intensive. Ontology learning, by contrast, provides (semi-)automa...

The articles collected in this volume present different aspects of the use of typed feature structures in theoretical and computational linguistics...

How does good teamwork emerge? Can we control mechanisms of teamwork? The author has analyzed these questions in a study involving 227 participants...

This book examines the contemporary era where parents complain that children today don't do their homework because they are distracted by the Inter...

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together con...

Information is everywhere, and defines everything in today's society. Moreover, information is a key concept in a wide range of academic discipline...

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within ...

Although most people don't give security much attention until their personal or business systems are attacked, this thought-provoking anthology dem...

IOT: Security and Privacy Paradigm covers the evolution of security and privacy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). It focuses on bringing all ...

The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and c...

This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphon...

This book presents an introduction to strategies for qualitative digital social research on emotions in a digital world. The book emphasizes the co...

Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise ...

Living in Digital Worlds investigates the relationship between human society and technology, as our private and particularly our public lives are i...

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Inter...

This book presents an introduction to strategies for qualitative digital social research on emotions in a digital world. The book emphasizes the co...

This book explores the intersection of gender, digitalization, and resilience in international development. Building resilience is increasingly see...

This book provides critical commentary on key issues around virtual reality, using media technology as a tool to challenge perspectives for learnin...

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? How can AI help a learner, a teacher or a system designer? What are the positive impacts of AI on human learn...

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? How can AI help a learner, a teacher or a system designer? What are the positive impacts of AI on human learn...

This reference text introduces concepts of computer and Internet crime, ethics in information technology, and privacy techniques.It comprehensively...

This reference text introduces concepts of computer and Internet crime, ethics in information technology, and privacy techniques.It comprehensively...

From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on...

Delving into the complexities of contemporary reportage, this book draws from moral philosophy and histories of photojournalism to understand the e...

From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on...

Delving into the complexities of contemporary reportage, this book draws from moral philosophy and histories of photojournalism to understand the e...

In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and techn...

Critical infrastructure sectors are those whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are deemed so important to nations that...

In the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, big data is weighed in gold, placing enormous power in the hands of data scientists – the modern ...

In the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, big data is weighed in gold, placing enormous power in the hands of data scientists – the modern ...

In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and techn...

Critical infrastructure sectors are those whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are deemed so important to nations that...

We live in a rapidly changing world, called VUCA, with its unique challenges and opportunities for growth and innovation. To be able to adjust chan...

The social, political and technological implications of the information revolution are the focus of this textbook. It explores the major social and...

Deciphering Cyberspace: Making the Most of Digital Communication Technology, a collection of new chapters by media experts, social-psychologists,...

How does the pace and pervasiveness of new technology impact on the individual? As technology becomes an ever-increasing part of our lives, the ove...

"Flame Wars," the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards, remind us that our interaction wi...

`The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformative effects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and cu...

Increasing attention is being paid to the political uses of the new communication technologies. Digital Democracy offers an invaluable in-depth exp...

Information and communication technologies are said to be transforming urban life dramatically and bringing about rapid economic and cultural globa...

How does the pace and pervasiveness of new technology impact on the individual? As technology becomes an ever-increasing part of our lives, the ove...

The computerization of the workplace confronts us with a paradox. While almost everyone agrees that the fusion of new information and communication...

This volume, intended for students and business professionals, provides an introduction to Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). The authors ...

Deciphering Cyberspace: Making the Most of Digital Communication Technology, a collection of new chapters by media experts, social-psychologists,...