Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications: The Change to the Competition Landscape provides a framework that allows you to understand and analyze the impact of social media in various industries.

Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version?

The leading thinkers from the cognitive science tradition participated in a workshop sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories in July of 2003 to discuss progress in building their models.

The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history.

This edited collection approaches the field of social robotics from the perspective of a cultural ecology, fostering a deeper examination of the reach of robotic technology into the lived experience of diverse human populations, as well as the impact of human cultures on the development and design of these social agents.

When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives.

As a discipline, Informatics has developed over the years from its initial focus on data processing and software development, towards a more recent emphasis on people's use of technology and its impact on their working and private lives.

This book collates the key security and privacy concerns faced by individuals and organizations who use various social networking sites.

This engaging textbook highlights the essential need for a strong ethical framework in our approach to computer, information and engineering science.

This is the most comprehensive book on computer security on the market, with 23 chapters and 29 Appendices covering virtually all aspects of computer security.

Society faces many challenges in workplaces, everyday life situations, and education contexts.

This book is a compilation of chapters written by leading researchers from all over the world.

Our digital world is often described using terms such as immateriality and virtuality.

A new edition, packed with even more clever tricks and methods that make everyday life easier Lifehackers redefine personal productivity with creative and clever methods for making life easier and more enjoyable.

This volume offers selected papers exploring issues arising from scientific discovery in the social sciences.

What is an avatar?

Take a deep dive into the life cycle of revolutionary technologies.

This book investigates the extent to which a Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) ethos has been extended to the online world in Europe.

Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications: The Change to the Competition Landscape provides a framework that allows you to understand and analyze the impact of social media in various industries.

The fields of intelligent systems and sustainability have been gaining momentum in the research community.

This concise step-by-step guide includes the best practices and patterns that help readers of all levels to unearth the potential of Materialize.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2020, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in April 2020.

Activity theory -- a conceptual framework originally developed by Aleksei Leontiev -- has its roots in the socio-cultural tradition in Russian psychology.

This book explores how technology can foster interaction between children and their peers, teachers and other adults.

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.

Focuses on how the computer has transformed the economy into an information processing and intelligence system.

Cyber Minds brings together an unrivalled panel of international experts who offer their insights into current cybersecurity issues in the military, business, and government.

In a marketplace that demands perpetual upgrades, the survival of interactive play ultimately depends on the adroit management of negotiations between game producers and youthful consumers of this new medium.

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The aim of this book is to provide "e;human engineering"e; for workplaces, tools, machinery, computers, shift work, lighting, sound, climate, work demands, offices, vehicles, healthcare, and the home - and everything else that we can produce - to suit the human body and mind.

Your organization can save and thrive in the cloud with this first non-technical guide to cloud computing for business leaders In less than a decade Google, Amazon, and Salesforce.

Home-Oriented Informatics and Telematics is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the field of home informatics.

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

In the context of an ever-changing technological world, it is crucial to prioritize the cultivation of sustainability and environmental consciousness.

Interactive media are a human-machine interface that allows people to connect with each other by making them active participants in the media they consume through text, graphics, audio and video.

The Second Edition of Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices is a collection of 78 articles that examine the social aspects of computerization from a variety of perspectives, many presenting important viewpoints not often discussed in the conventional literature.

After many years during which it languished in relative obscurity, in remote classrooms of computer science departments and in small prototype projects for tech companies, artificial intelligence (AI) is now a searingly hot topic across the media.

Access and Control in Digital Humanities explores a range of important questions about who controls data, who is permitted to reproduce or manipulate data, and what sorts of challenges digital humanists face in making their work accessible and useful.

As democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of the new communication technologies.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of key themes and agendas in contemporary Participatory Design across diverse disciplines, continents, communities, and practices.

Presents a new theory of media ethics that is explicitly international.

Focusing on four key aspects of Web3, the book explores metaverses, data governance, public and private law interfaces, and access to justice, presenting new research on the impact of data analytics on transactions within law, on regulatory activities, and on the practice of law.

In a world increasingly driven by technology, this book explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, and Cloud Computing and women's safety, highlighting the transformative potential of technology in safeguarding women's well-being in the physical and the digital world.

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller-updated to bring you up to speed on the latest social media sites, features, and strategiesFrom one of the world's leading figures in social media marketing, networking, and business applications comes the heavily revised and updated edition of the Likeable Social Media.

Justice apps - mobile and web-based programmes that can assist individuals with legal tasks - are being produced, improved, and accessed at an unprecedented rate.

This Handbook presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the state-of-the-art on Smart Cities.