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Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities. Uniting differing perspectives, leading and emerging scholars discuss the...

Computer Media and Communication: A Reader is a collection of key texts selected for their significance to thought about computers as media. The book is divided into two parts. The chapters in the first part offer a chronological overview of how thinking...

Technology does not invite a close examination of its own consequences because of its lengthy, intimate, and inevitable relationship with culture. In particular, the internet has delivered mixed blessings despite extravagant claims that it has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783675927209Author Maxwell J AromanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint PN BooksPublisher PN BooksWeight(grams) 168g

This book brings together the vast research literature about gender and technology to help designers understand what a gender perspective and a focus on intersectionality can contribute to designing information technology systems and artifacts, and to...

This book covers all aspects of computer document preparation text processing and printing. Computers are being used increasingly in the processing of documents, from simple textual material, such as letters and memos, to complete books with mathematical...

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the digitisation processes of Europe's border regime. It shows how sociotechnical imaginations of future borders drive forward the expansion of databases in the European governance of mobility. With a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912037711Author Ibrahim KushchuFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint MobilegovPublisher MobilegovWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

See how using FreeRTOS and libopencm3 instead of the Arduino software environment will help you develop multi-tasking applications that go beyond Arduino norms. This updated version includes expanded coverage of software setup for Windows 10 and 11,...

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 11th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2023 in Lyon, France in June 2023.  The 8 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are organized in the following...

Computer technology has become a mirror of what we are and a screen on which we project both our hopes and our fears for the way the world is changing. Earlier in this century, particularly in the post-World War II era of unprecedented growth and...

From one of the editors of the renowned book Beyond Calculation, acclaimed by The New York Times for its "astonishing intellectual reach", comes a new collection of equal brilliance. Focusing on the impact of computers on humans, Talking Back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912037001Author Ibrahim KushchuFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Mobilegov UKPublisher Mobilegov UKWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641373548Author Melissa BirchfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a "digital humanism". This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773691770Author Austin MardonFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Golden Meteorite PressPublisher Golden Meteorite PressWeight(grams) 152g

IT systems explode budget estimates, bust production deadlines by years, and then fail to work properly. Why this IT-system crisis? Poor programmers? Inadequate project management? No. The Seductive Computer argues that the fundamental nature of...

Bring live heartbeats and heart rate data into your electronics projects as an impressive feature that builds user engagement. If you're a Maker, developer, or artist, you've probably run into common, frustrating stumbling blocks for incorporating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013275883Author Daniel NeylandFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088066072Author Steve AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Digital Economy provides information about the socioeconomic aspects of the digital economy. This set of 18 essays covers the effects of digital economy on business transactions, technology and culture, as well as on education. It also covers various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088060322Author Steve AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 213g

This fascinating book gathers together an enviable range of experts from a variety of disciplines to study how trust and crime interact with new digital technologies. It provides a critical discussion on the prospects of the Internet and on the future of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062285157Author Randi ZuckerbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992860110Author Samantha KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Kissed Off PublicationsPublisher Kissed Off Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692458549Author Stephen ImholtFormat PaperbackImprint Top Wing BooksPublisher Top Wing BooksWeight(grams) 431g

Are you someone who'd use a RAM chip as fertilizer? Do you think that the best way to boot up a computer is with a steel toe? Then The Devouring Fungus is the book for you. Anyone who's ever had anything to do with computers-from the sophisticated hacker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983071501Author Maddie Grant CaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint SocialfishPublisher SocialfishWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780769547640Author David Alan GrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint IEEE Computer Society PressPublisher IEEE Computer Society PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780230607859Author Edward CastronovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Imagine a world where the boundaries of creativity are not only stretched but redefined. This book serves as your guide to this new frontier, engaging general readers, tech enthusiasts, and creatives alike in the captivating interplay between human...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2011, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, in October 2011. The 25 revised papers presented were carefully...

Communications and personal information that are posted online are usually accessible to a vast number of people. Yet when personal data exist online, they may be searched, reproduced and mined by advertisers, merchants, service providers or even...

th I3E 2010 marked the 10 anniversary of the IFIP Conference on e-Business, e- Services, and e-Society, continuing a tradition that was invented in 1998 during the International Conference on Trends in Electronic Commerce, TrEC 1998, in Hamburg (Germany)...

Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling provides a representation of the social behavior, and allows for experimenting, scenario planning, and deep und-...

We are extremely pleased to present a comprehensive book comprising a collection of research papers which is basically an outcome of the Second IFIP TC 13.6 Working Group conference on Human Work Interaction Design, HWID2009. The conference was held in...

Drawing lessons from the eFez Project in Morocco, this volume offers practical supporting material to decision makers in developing countries on information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D), specifically e-government implementation...

Over the past two decades, projects supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have critically examined the ways in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) can be used to improve learning, empower the...

This engaging and thought-provoking textbook examines the ethical, social, and policy challenges arising from our rapidly and continuously evolving computing technology, ranging from the Internet to the ubiquitous portable devices we use to access it...

The perspectives and techniques used in human-computer interaction design, practice and research are broadening. This book looks at emerging approaches which are likely to contribute to the discipline in near future. The underlying idea is that human...