Impact of Science & Technology on Society

Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons delves into the complex issue of misinformation in our daily lives. The book synthesizes thr...

Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substa...

Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and eco...

Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and eco...

This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elit...

What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts...

Some 600 million children worldwide do not legally exist. Without verifiable identification, they—and unregistered adults—could face serious diffic...

This book examines the development of medical sciences in postcolonial Kenya, through the adventures and stories of the controversial Kalenjin scie...

Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the digital native who ac...

This title was first published in 2000: This volume focuses on the influence of, and additionally explores the value adding contribution of, inform...

Published in 1998. This text is concerned with research issues within the context of the emerging information age. The book draws together research...

This book looks at information technology and communication as agents of economic, social, and political development in Third World countries, stre...

'A talented new voice worth paying attention to.' Irish Times'Equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant.' Jenny Musta...

Are robots going to take my job? How are smartphones affecting my kids? Do I need to worry about privacy when I get online or ask Siri for directio...

This book presents some of the most important applications of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Machine Learning for questions arising in a...

A social robot is a robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules a...

Global warming and, even more recently, the COVID pandemic have brought into public focus our dependence on science and the lens with which it cons...

To enact the books central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content...

The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking. These technological develop...

The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided and judged by morals and u...

Presented from a criminal justice perspective, Cyberspace, Cybersecurity, and Cybercrime introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of cybe...

2020 Foreword Indie Award Winner (Gold) in the Science & Technology CategoryChilling, eye-opening, and timely, Cyber Privacy makes a strong cas...

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of Americas most controversial experiments in police surveillance.    In 2020, the Baltimore Police Depa...

People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level education. These s...

While the metaverse is often marketed as a future utopia, the vision of the metaverse represents an attempt for private corporations to control the...