Social Aspects

Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of information returned by these systems is a key part of decision making and...

How can we balance new information technology practices with human rights? In Human Rights in an Information Age, Gregory Walters analyses Canadian and global information highway policy and practices regarding the Internet, e-commerce, public health and...

Multilayer networks, in particular multilayer social networks, where users belong to and interact on different networks at the same time, are an active research area in social network analysis, computer science, and physics. These networks have...

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Humanising Technology presents a compelling collection of 50 opinion editorials that delve into the multifaceted social impacts of technology. Drawing from over two decades of research and public engagement, the author offers nuanced insights into how...

A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known-but very consequential-programs into the spotlight We're used to talking about how tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon rule the internet, but what about daemons?...

‘A practical game plan for pushing back. It's time to reclaim our lives!’ Cal Newport, bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep WorkWe all know the feeling of digital exhaustion. The aimless scrolling, eyes glazing over at the screen. The feeling...

The integration of AI into information systems will affect the way users interface with these systems. This exploration of the interaction and collaboration between humans and AI reveals its potential and challenges, covering issues such as data privacy,...

Digital Transformation in Healthcare offers valuable insights into how technology is reshaping the industry. From AI and simulation to wearable devices, these advancements improve patient care, streamline operations, and reduce costs. For healthcare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009366588Author Isto HuvilaFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544547404Author Sandra ChaitFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522586128Author Heather Christina LumFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Information Science ReferencePublisher Information Science...

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This book provides a wide and deep perspective on the ethical issues raised by pervasive information and communication technology (PICT) - small, powerful, and often inexpensive Internet-connected computing devices and systems. It describes complex and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544547398Author Sandra ChaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 322g

Technologists frequently promote self-tracking devices as objective tools. This book argues that such glib and often worrying assertions must be placed in the context of precarious industry dynamics. The author draws on several years of ethnographic...

Ethics and Law in Computing: Exploring Legal Issues and Ethical Concerns in 21st-Century Technology investigates a variety of issues students are likely to encounter in their future careers as computer or IT professionals. The text examines the legal...

Since the dawn of civilization, new technologies-from the plow to the locomotive to the computer-have transformed human lives. These changes have often been for the better, but occasionally also for the worse. No matter what consequence, these changes...

Social media is arguably one of the most powerful technology-enabled innovations since the Internet itself. This single-volume book provides a broad and easily understandable discussion of the evolution of social media; related problems and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783991465362Author Alex Capricorn Ph.D. (Dr. Sandor Bak)Format PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint novum publishing gmbhPublisher novum publishing gmbh

Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context describes and situates the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of hacking and making. Hackers and makers are often mythologized, leading to people misunderstanding them...

Elayne [oakes, Dianne Willis andSteve Clarke The effectiveuse of knowledge management in organisations is an essential factor in their successful operation, but knowledge management is a many faceted domain, in which there is a danger of emphasising only...

Information Ethics: Privacy and Intellectual Property provides an up-to-date discussion of the main ethical issues that face today's information-intensive society, including the areas of intellectual property rights, privacy, accessibility and censorship...

Information technology (IT) is changing us, our society and our world, and it influences how we perceive the world and how we think about it. This book describes the rather complex development of IT over the last 70 years, highlights the dynamics of this...

This book deals with the ethics of technology and addresses specific ethical problems related to some emerging technologies, mainly in the field of computer science (from machine learning models to extracting value from data to human–robot interaction)...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2020, held in Turku, Finland, in August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 19 revised...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference On Smart Homes and and Health Telematics, ICOST 2009, held in Tours, France, in July 2009. The 27 revised full papers and 20 short papers presented were carefully reviewed...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2020, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in April 2020. The 18 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 79...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2015, held in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, in October 2015. The 11 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and...

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2014, held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2014. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected...

In our modern information societies, we not only use and welcome computers; we are highly dependent upon them. There is a downside of this kind of progress, however. Computers are not 100% reliable. They are insecure. They are vulnerable to attackers...

This two-volume set constitutes the revised selected papers of the 18th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2023 held in Harbin, China, in August 2023. The 54 full papers and 28 short papers presented...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2020, held in Linköping, Sweden, in August/September 2020, in conjunction with the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP International Conference on...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2016, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in September 5-8, 2016. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and...