Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

What is computational creativity?

Seeking Justice explores when and why victims of corporate human rights abuse have access to remedy mechanisms.

Legal Programming: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal concerns presented by agent-based technologies, processes and programming.

Why media panics about online dangers overlook another urgent concern: creating equitable online opportunities for marginalized youth.

Pervasive and ubiquitous, machine translation systems have been transforming communication and understanding across languages and cultures on a historical scale.

Technological and scientific progress, especially the rapid development in information technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI), plays a crucial role regarding questions of peace and security.

Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2016, held in Paris, France, in October 2016.

The concept of the metaverse signifies the forthcoming stage of development of the Internet, wherein it will facilitate the creation of virtual worlds that are enduring, decentralized, and capable of providing immersive experiences in real time.

Increasingly, teams are working together when they are not in the same location, even though there are many challenges to doing so successfully.

This book is compiled of selected proceedings from the "e;Landscapes"e; Conference held at Turku University, Finland, in July 2005.

Advances in network connectivity, power consumption, and physical size create new possibilities for using interactive computing outdoors.

The new digital media offers us an unprecedented memory capacity, an ubiquitous communication channel and a growing computing power.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cryprocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, CBT 2018, and the 13thInternational Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2018, on conjunction with the 23nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2018, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2016, held in Tampere, Finland, in September 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in July 2017.

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

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Passwords, PASSWORDS 2014, held in Trondheim, Norway, in December 2014.

This book makes an important contribution to the study of political communication.

This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent - the 'information society'.

This book focuses on the modelling and optimization aspects of the feature selection problem through computational intelligence methods in complex, high-dimensional supervised machine learning.

It's axiomatic to state that people fear what they do not understand, and this is especially true when it comes to technology.

Future Imperfect describes and discusses technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications and how to deal with them.

The field of cybersecurity and cybercrime is a critical and rapidly evolving area of study.

Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.

This book examines how algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond affect autonomy, freedom, and democracy.

Filled with hundreds of hands-on tutorials, tips, and techniques, this is the thorough, in-depth reference that every Second Life resident needs.

Socioinformatics is a new scientific approach to study the interactions between humans and IT.

This book makes the case that far too much work undertaken under the banner of 'behavioural safety' is overly person-focused.

In this path-breaking work, Mark Poster highlights the nature of the newly emerging forms of social life, in the current era.

The three-volume set LNCS 9746, 9747, and 9748 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences.

This book presents a complete overview of the main EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) paradigms and the related practical solutions for their design, prototyping, and testing.

In this thought-provoking volume, Eran Fisher interrogates the relationship between algorithms as epistemic devices and modern notions of subjectivity.

Jobs To Be Done is key to building successful products, and this book masterfully gives a stepbystep guide on how to put it into practice.

Explore the frontier of electronic discovery in the cloud Cloud Computing and Electronic Discovery comprehensively covers the quickly-evolving realm of eDiscovery in cloud computing environments, a computing and legal frontier in which the rules and legal precedents are being developed anew seemingly by the day.

Addressing the rising prevalence of interactive systems in our daily lives, this book focuses on the essential aspects of usability, user experience (UX), and inclusive design.

This book serves as an introduction to the science and applications of Large Language Models (LLMs).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2015, held in Trondheim, Norway, in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Future Network Systems and Security, FNSS 2016, held in Paris, France, in November 2016.

Cyber-risks are moving targets and societal responses to combat cyber-victimization are often met by the distrust of young people.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in August 2014.

This book explores how smart cities enable new and playful ways for citizens to experience, inhabit and socialise within urban environments.

In a world in which more and more fake news is being spread, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from lies, knowledge from opinion.

The increase in fake news, the growing influence on elections, increasing false reports and targeted disinformation campaigns are not least a consequence of advancing digitalisation.

This book examines the ways that political agency can be understood in digitally dominated media environments.

Data privacy technologies are essential for implementing information systems with privacy by design.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, SCN 2018, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2018.