Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

When technology has been applied in business environments, its justification has usually been cast in terms of saving time or saving money.

When technology has been applied in business environments, its justification has usually been cast in terms of saving time or saving money.

This book presents digital placemaking as a new testing ground for urban democracy.

This book is a timely and critical introduction for those interested in what data science is (and isn't), and how it should be applied.

This book provides a scholarly investigation of the new era we have entered, in which platforms can replace or profoundly modify educational systems, and questions the role of educational policy in this new stage of platform-based digital technology.

This book provides a scholarly investigation of the new era we have entered, in which platforms can replace or profoundly modify educational systems, and questions the role of educational policy in this new stage of platform-based digital technology.

"e;Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently.

Virtual work, which was steadily on the rise even before the pandemic, is explored in this timely book that describes the impact of technology on our work experiences, ranging from the individual psychological level to the broad societal implications.

Discover the untapped features of object-oriented programming and use it with other software tools to code fast, efficient applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on E-Democracy, E-Democracy 2017, held in Athens, Greece, in December 2017.

Information is easy.

This book constitutes the revised post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2016, held in Beijing, China, in September 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd Annual IFIP WG 11.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 8.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2016, and the Second International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Cambridge, UK, in March 2017.

Computers are increasingly the enabling devices of the information revolution, and computing is becoming ubiquitous in every corner of society, from manufacturing to telecommunications to pharmaceuticals to entertainment.

Travelling through theories of emotion and affect, this book addresses the key ways in which media studies can be brought to bear upon everyday encounters with online cultures and practices.

Ante el coronavirus, nuestras esperanzas se han vuelto hacia la ciencia y la tecnología.

This book attempts to rethink the concept of technological literacy in a modern context, not only in terms of a subject area taught in schools, but also as an important general concept that all citizens should engage with.

En ocasion de la inauguracion del Centro Leverhulme para el Futuro de la Inteligencia en la Universidad de Harvard, el astrofisico Stephen Hawking resumio sus preocupaciones en la siguiente frase: "e;El surgimiento de una poderosa inteligencia artificial sera lo mejor o lo peor que le haya pasado a la humanidad, todavia no lo sabemos"e;.

For decades, technology encouraged us to squander our time and as passive consumers.

In the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, big data is weighed in gold, placing enormous power in the hands of data scientists - the modern AI alchemists.

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.

This book describes three phenomena in digital media.

Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media offers an original, theorised, and empirically based account of contemporary (re)presentations, (re)articulations, and (re)imaginings of education policy through news and new media.

For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms.

For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms.

Microorganisms, viruses, and computer programs encode all the information necessary to reproduce and spread themselves.

At the inauguration of the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at Harvard University, physicist Stephen Hawking summarized his concerns in the following sentence: "e;The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism is a major contribution to our understanding of how technology oligopolies are shaping America's social, economic, and political reality.

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism is a major contribution to our understanding of how technology oligopolies are shaping America's social, economic, and political reality.

This edited book introduces readers to the area of "e;Everyday Virtual and Augmented Reality"e;.

The benefits of using technology to remake government seem almost infinite.

Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is this true?

Was hält eine Gesellschaft, die heterogen vernetzt und damit auch zunehmend "exkludierend" ist, noch zusammen?

This book offers a fresh look at recent developments in policy, curricula and pedagogical discourse around children's play with Internet of Toys (IoToys).

This book offers a fresh look at recent developments in policy, curricula and pedagogical discourse around children's play with Internet of Toys (IoToys).

In the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, big data is weighed in gold, placing enormous power in the hands of data scientists - the modern AI alchemists.

This book examines the connections between the psycho-social difficulties and challenges faced by children and younger people in their online lives; the structure, character, and motivations of the corporate system 'behind' the screen; and the possibility that the digital technostructure may come to form the backbone of a new post-democratic system of technocratic governance.

This book examines the connections between the psycho-social difficulties and challenges faced by children and younger people in their online lives; the structure, character, and motivations of the corporate system 'behind' the screen; and the possibility that the digital technostructure may come to form the backbone of a new post-democratic system of technocratic governance.

This book brings together academics and advocates to explore an emerging issue: the use of technology by perpetrators of domestic and family violence.

This book focuses on the techniques of artificial intelligence that are mainly used in the power electronics field for the optimization of lost vehicle power.

This book is an academic publication about the global development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and major MOOC platforms worldwide in the past decade, as well as the outlook of MOOCs in the future, with an emphasis on Greater China.

Digitalization is inexorably conquering our lives - also with artificial intelligence (AI) methods.

This book explores the relationships between artificial intelligence (AI) and education in China.

This book explores the relationships between artificial intelligence (AI) and education in China.

This textbook highlights the essential need for a strong ethical framework in our approach to teaching of and working in computer, information and engineering sciences.