Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

In einer zunehmend digitalisierten Welt zeigt dieser praxisnahe Ratgeber Wege zu einem ausgewogenen Umgang mit digitalen Medien.

Desde la foto que un padre o una abuela toman del recién nacido en la sala de maternidad, pasando por las experiencias que se comparten en redes sociales, las reseñas o calificaciones de películas, hoteles o restaurantes, el self-tracking que registra cuánto corrió una persona en una semana, hasta el activismo feminista, social o ambiental y las campañas políticas, todos y todas estamos cada vez más condicionados, directa o indirectamente, por los fenómenos que se dan en el entorno digital.

Los aspectos que reúnen a las TIC (Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación) y a la educación concentran hoy la atención de investigadores y educadores.

This book seeks to understand emotions in the virtual world.

This edited volume presents current perspectives on the innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as an integral part of the changing nature of work.

This book shares Chinese scholars' philosophical views on artificial intelligence.

The book Intelligent Healthcare: Infrastructure, Algorithms, and Management(R) cover a wide range of research topics on innovative intelligent healthcare solutions and advancements with the latest research developments.

This edited book presents point of view and the work being undertaken by active researchers in the domain of IOT and its applications with societal impact.

The book Intelligent Healthcare: Infrastructure, Algorithms, and Management(R) cover a wide range of research topics on innovative intelligent healthcare solutions and advancements with the latest research developments.

This book presents examples of and the latest simulation studies on artificial societies and populations, highlighting innovative implementations of various models of artificial societies and populations using a new, C++-related simulation tool.

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.

This book is a valuable resource for the increasing body of researchers and practitioners in the field of geospatial technologies.

This book discusses in detail the great historical and social significance of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The era of the fourth industrial revolution has fundamentally transformed the manufacturing landscape.

Screen-obsessed: Parenting in the Digital Age is the first book solely focusing on parental supervision of children's media use.

This book provides tractable computational analyses of the crucial but complex processes of government formation and survival.

This book provides tractable computational analyses of the crucial but complex processes of government formation and survival.

The book represents the culmination of a hugely successful heritage preservation project initiated by the Government of India's Department of Science and Technology.

La tecnología y su apropiación en la sociedad han implicado una trasformación general que hoy permite examinar hechos coyunturales que determinan la construcción de libertades en torno a temáticas de intereses colectivos.

This book demonstrates the inevitability of a continuously growing role of data in our society and it stresses that this role does not need to be threatening: to the contrary, collection and analysis of data can help us prevent traffic jams, suppress epidemics, or produce tailor made medicine.

Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to a major alteration in technology use and thus daily living.

This book provides a detailed discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the change driven by ICTs.

This Handbook is a detailed introduction to the numerous academic perspectives that apply to the study of the internet as a political, social and communicative phenomenon.

This book on privacy and data protection offers readers conceptual analysis as well as thoughtful discussion of issues, practices, and solutions.

This volume brings together papers that offer methodologies, conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy and data protection.

This volume brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy and data protection.

This volume deals with the so-called new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interrelationship with Muslims and the interpretation of Islam.

This book provides a wide and deep perspective on the ethical issues raised by pervasive information and communication technology (PICT) - small, powerful, and often inexpensive Internet-connected computing devices and systems.

On 25 January 2012, the European Commission presented its long awaited new "e;Data protection package"e;.

This book explains strategies, techniques, legal issues and the relationships between digital resistance activities, information warfare actions, liberation technology and human rights.

While a sharp debate is emerging about whether conventional biometric technology offers society any significant advantages over other forms of identification, and whether it constitutes a threat to privacy, technology is rapidly progressing.

This book provides the reader with a clear and precise description of robotics and other systems for home automation currently on the market, and discusses their interoperability and perspectives for the near future.

Mobile phones are the most ubiquitous communications technology in the world.

This edited collection reflects contemporary challenges faced by police forces across the globe and the role of technology in addressing them.

This timely interdisciplinary work on current developments in ICT and privacy/data protection, coincides as it does with the rethinking of the Data Protection Directive, the contentious debates on data sharing with the USA (SWIFT, PNR) and the judicial and political resistance against data retention.

On 25 January 2012, the European Commission presented its long awaited new "e;Data protection package"e;.

This book presents the impact and scope of Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) in the growth of intelligent digital farming and smart agriculture.

This book provides a detailed discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the change driven by ICTs.

What is driving recent growth in OECD countries?

Internet is starting to permeate politics much as it has previously revolutionised education, business or the arts.

Over the last few decades information and communication technology has come to play an increasingly prominent role in our dealings with other people.