Social Aspects

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250181695Author Ellen UllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262681155Author Howard RheingoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The world is racing toward an irreversible ecological catastrophe. Environmental science makes clear that humans must reduce total material resource use, requiring a radical redistribution of wealth within and between countries. Yet little attention has...

Is it time to become a manager? Nest and vest? Join that start-up? Tell your boss he's a liar? Or resign in disgust? As a software engineer, you'll face many important decisions such as these, and when you do, you realize there's much more to your career...

Finding cool languages, tools, or development techniques is easy-new ones are popping up every day. Convincing co-workers to adopt them is the hard part. The problem is political, and in political fights, logic doesn't win for logic's sake. Hard evidence...

"An invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares."--John Gilby, Times Higher Education "Moral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers,...

Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn't matter whether we're talking about humans...

Improve your projects by leveraging the power of interrupts. This comprehensive guide makes it easy to understand and use interrupts with the ATmega328P microcontroller found on Arduino boards. With over 20 interrupts available, this book covers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062390868Author Seth Stephens-DavidowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737865Author Darrell M. WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...

Cyberspace is essential for socializing, learning, shopping, and just about everything in modern life. Yet, there is also a dark side to cyberspace: sub-national, transnational, and international actors are challenging the ability of sovereign...

Fabricated tells the story of 3D printers, humble manufacturing machines that are bursting out of the factory and into schools, kitchens, hospitals, even onto the fashion catwalk. Fabricated describes our emerging world of printable products, where...

This book is a brief introductory guide to the role AgeTech plays in staying connected in later life. It offers insight into current AgeTech research on staying connected and illustrates entry points for deploying such technologies through a range of...

During the Arab uprisings of early 2011, which saw the overthrow of Zine el-Abadine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the role of digital media and social networking tools was widely reported. This was also recognized by the very authorities...

This book is a message of hope and a call to action in building flourishing human-machine systems in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). It looks beyond the AI hype and advocates for humanity in an industry infatuated by machine superiority. Its...

In an era of rapid digital transformation, Asia and the Pacific is uniquely placed to leverage digital technologies to overcome sustainable development challenges. Already, the region is recognized as a dynamic hub for digitally driven innovation fueled...

This book provides a multi-disciplinary understanding of pathways into and out of youth cybercrime, and evidence-led ways to tackle the cybercrime epidemic, drawing on theoretical perspectives and insights from the largest European H2020 study of youth...

This two-volume set LNICST652-653 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the EAI 16th International Conference on International Conference on Towards new e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2024, which took place in...

This two-volume set LNICST652-653 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the EAI 16th International Conference on International Conference on Towards new e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2024, which took place in...

PROMPTED is a clear and practical guide that makes AI interaction accessible to a wide audience. It fills the gap between dense technical manuals and overly simplistic guides by offering actionable frameworks and techniques to help readers use AI as a...

Predictive Intelligence in Biomedical and Health Informatics focuses on imaging, computer-aided diagnosis and therapy as well as intelligent biomedical image processing and analysis. It develops computational models, methods and tools for biomedical...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC14 2020, which was supposed take place in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2020, but the conference was cancelled due to the...

The two-volume set CCIS 1491 and 1492 constitutes the refereed post-conferenceproceedings of the 16th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2021, held in Xiangtan, China, November 26-28, 2021. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788835400073Author Sebastian BolivarFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint TektimePublisher TektimeWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has been described as the next big leap in digital capitalism. Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, 3D printing and robotisation, we are led to believe, will bring more progress,...

This book is a open access. The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a comprehensive guide, translating research into best practices to promote gender inclusivity in informatics. The handbook seeks to empower its readers, providing them with...

Most of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature, they consist of what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and much more. Almost any experience, such as eating a meal or going to the cinema, involves a magnificently complex sensory world. ...

ICT is playing an increasingly important role in both business and individual's private life. It has increased international interconnectedness and speed up the process of globalization. But on the other side the total energy consumption by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549714Author Niels BruggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Handbook of Inclusive Knowledge Management: Ensuring Inclusivity, Diversity, and Equity in Knowledge Processing Activities examines the role that diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) are part of the field and the discipline of knowledge management...

The platform economy, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what are the actual benefits to our society and economy? This book interrogates the 'sharing economy', showing how...

The platform economy, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what are the actual benefits to our society and economy? This book interrogates the 'sharing economy', showing how...

The computer has in many respects become so common that it largely disappears from view. Originally a room-sized, esoteric, carefully-tended machine, breeding fear, awe and respect, over the years it has decreased in size, and with the rise of the...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings the 19th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2024 held in Wollongong, NSW, Australia, during April 10-12, 2024. The 14 revised full papers and 8 short papers...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Annual SmartCity360 Degrees Summit which was organized in November 2021 in Porto, Portugal. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The volume combines selected papers of 6...

An urgent reckoning with digital technology's fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the...

A feminist perspective on the early history of personal computing, revealing how computers were integrated into the most intimate aspects of family life The Intimate Life of Computers shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s...

In a world where people have 24/7 access to the Internet, social media, and other digital technologies, developing healthy habits around how we interact with our screens can have an enormous impact on our physical, mental, and social well-being. Part...

An urgent reckoning with digital technology's fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the...

On the back of their last book, Cyber-risk and Youth, and building on a new research project, Adorjan and Ricciardelli marshal current research to explore parenting in the digital age.Utilizing 70 original interviews from rural and urban area Canadian...