Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2017, held in Mumbai, India, in December 2017.

This book focuses on the "e;algorithmic turn"e; in state surveillance and the development of new platforms that allow the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to shape human behavior in all areas of life through its widespread social credit system.

Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy.

This two volume set LNAI 9834 and 9835 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2016, held in Tokyo, Japan, in August 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2014, held in Belfast, UK, in December 2014.

History of Computing: Learning from the Past Why is the history of computing important?

This book is the "e;Hello, World"e; tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment.

This study examines findings from a 4-year-long ethnography of communication among a research university's community of scientists and engineers working in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Recent advances in digitization are transforming healthcare, education, tourism, information technology, and some other sectors.

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it.

An engaging, narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives to see the dark beating heart of the Internet itself.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2017, held in Beijing, China, in December 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st  International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses, RAID 2018, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in September 2018.

Hacker culture can be esoteric, but this entertaining reference is here to help.

This book redefines community discovery in the new world of Online Social Networks and Web 2.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2018, held in Wollongong, Australia, in July 2018.

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.

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user.

The Next Generation Innovation in IoT and Cloud Computing with Applications is a thought-provoking edited book that explores the cutting-edge advancements and transformative potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2016, in conjunction with DEXA 2015.

This book examines the challenge of accelerating automation, and argues that countering and adapting to this challenge requires new methodological, philosophical, scientific, sociological, economic, ethical, and political perspectives that fundamentally rethink the categories of work and education.

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Science of Cyber Security, SciSec 2018, held in Beijing, China, in August 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshops which complemented the 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2013, held in Salamanca, Spain, in May 2013.

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.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First IAPR TC3 Workshop on Pattern Recognition of Social Signals in Human-Computer-Interaction (MPRSS2012), held in Tsukuba, Japan in November 2012, in collaboration with the NLGD Festival of Games.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2007).

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing discipline.

Since the discovery of electromagnetic waves less than 150 years ago, the application of wireless communications technology has not only revolutionized our daily lives, but also fundamentally changed the course of world history.

Cyberspace is everywhere in today's world and has significant implications not only for global economic activity, but also for international politics and transnational social relations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, PAISI 2015, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in May 2015 in conjunction with PAKDD 2015, the 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Middle school history teachers confront the same challenge every day: how to convey the breadth and depth of a curriculum that spans centuries, countries, and cultures.

The research textbook surveys the field for young HCI researchers who are making their way in the world of research.

This book places IT in perspective by tracing its development through time, covering its origins in business, the massive expansion of the role of IT at the end of the 20th century, the growth of the internet, and the successes and failures of companies involved in this development.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2017, held in Hatfield, UK, in September 2017, as a satellite event of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2017.

This book provides a holistic overview of the complexities of modern technological advances and their implications for crime and security.

How is the adoption of digital media in the Arab world affecting the relationship between the state and its subjects?

The Annual (ICGS) International Conference is an established platform in which se- rity, safety and sustainability issues can be examined from several global perspectives through dialogue between academics, students, government representatives, chief executives, security professionals, and research scientists from the United Kingdom and from around the globe.

The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze illuminates the connection between the stories people tell, their expectations of what a robot is, and how these beliefs and values manifest in how real robots are designed and used.

This two volume set LNCS 10602 and LNCS 10603 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security, ICCCS 2017, held in Nanjing, China, in June 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 9.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the international competition aimed at the evaluation and assessment of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems and services, EvAAL 2011, which was organized in two major events, the Competition in Valencia, Spain, in July 2011, and the Final workshop in Lecce, Italy, in September 2011.

th The 15 International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010) took place during June 23-25 in Cardiff (UK).

Let's be realistic here.

Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms' effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health and accessible datasets, activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type.

Computing devices havebecome ever more present in our everyday environments, however embedding thesetechnologies into our routines has remained a challenge.