Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Edited by three of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of technology, this new handbook provides a thoughtful and evidence-driven exa...

The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global,...

The growth and health of our digital economies and societies depend on the core protocols and infrastructure of the Internet. This technical and lo...

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology is the first book to provide a student-oriented introduction to this rapidly growing and increasingly studied to...

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology is the first book to provide a student-oriented introduction to this rapidly growing and increasingly studied to...

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But the...

Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is thi...

Communications technology is advancing at such speed, heralding a world of choice and opportunity, that we sometimes struggle to navigate each new ...

Inside the life of a hacker and cybercrime culture. Public discourse, from pop culture to political rhetoric, portrays hackers as deceptive, digit...

Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is thi...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, braincomputer interfaces, genetic...

Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shockin...

Todays machine-learning systems, trained by data, are so effective that weve invited them to see and hear for usand to make decisions on our behalf...

This book is dedicated to Hermann Maurer on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The title word Rainbow reflects the beauty and variety of the achiev...

The papers in this volume were the fruitful scientific results of the Second International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), held during Novemb...

Thisbookcontainsthepostproceedingsofthe6thEuropeanWorkshoponPublic Key Services, Applications and Infrastructures, which was held at the CNR Resear...

In a world supported by Ambient Intelligence (AmI), various devices embedded in the environment collectively use the distributed information and th...

ICWL is an annual international conference series on Web-based learning that has so far been held in Asia, Europe and Australia. This series repres...

For almost a decade the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.5 (Information Systems in Public Administration), or IF...

This volume compiles the papers accepted for presentation at the 16thWorking C- ference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Qualit...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing, TRUST 2011, held in Pittsbur...

TheseproceedingscontainthepapersselectedforpresentationatCARDIS 2010, the 9th IFIP Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Application hoste...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams for User Interface Design, TAMODIA 200...

In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social n...

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proce- th ings of the 11 International Conference on Product-Focused Softw...

The past decade has seen tremendous growth in the demand for biometrics and data security technologies in applications ranging from law enforcement...

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

Digital Playgrounds explores the key developments, trends, debates, and controversies that have shaped childrens commercial digital play spaces ove...

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and s...

Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner ...

How can Twitter data be used to study individual-level human behavior and social interaction on a global scale? This book introduces readers to the...

In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the p...

The internet has altered how people engage with each other in myriad ways, including offering opportunities for people to act distrustfully. This f...

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools ...

This research textbook, designed for young Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers beginning their careers, surveys the research models and me...

Heute reicht Funktionalität nicht mehr aus, um die Benutzer von Internet- oder Desktop-Applikationen zu begeistern. Das Benutzererlebnis wird immer...

Business operations in large organizations today involve massive, interactive, and layered networks of teams and personnel collaborating across hie...

Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies i...

In recent years, the popularity of virtual worlds has increased significantly and they have consequently come under closer academic scrutiny. Paper...

Many of the significant developments of our era have resulted from advances in technology, including the design of large-scale systems; advances in...

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organization...

Multilayer networks, in particular multilayer social networks, where users belong to and interact on different networks at the same time, are an ac...

Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to tod...

This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting international and innovative scholarship with practical...