Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

This innovative edited collection presents new insights into emerging debates around digital communication practices.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) drives unprecedented change, Debiasing AI examines the vital intersection of technology, innovation, and sustainability.

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 12th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015.

In recent years, virtual meeting technology has become a part of the everyday lives of more and more people, often with the help of global online social networks (OSNs).

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

Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies provides a one-stop reference for users looking to harness the power of this Web building suite.

Currently, computational intelligence approaches are utilised in various science and engineering applications to analyse information, make decisions, and achieve optimisation goals.

Making Media Futures offers a multi-perspectival exploration of how imaginaries and knowledge of the future are constructed in and through various media.

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

The title of this new book: "e;The Connected Home"e; reflects the move away from the idea that smart homes would alter the lives of those living in them by providing technologies to take over tasks that were previously the responsibility of the householder, such as managing entertainment, education - and even eating!

Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on online deviance.

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

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 12th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2014, held in Paris, France, in November 2014.

This book describes advances in technology, data availability, and searcher expectations around next-generation search engines.

This book was developed to help researchers and practitioners select measures to be used in the evaluation of human/machine systems.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 201, held in Lucca, Italy, in October 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 28th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Cambridge, UK, during March 27-28, 2023.

What if I told you something that could empower our third sector and activists to enhance their capacity?

In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC11 2014, held in Turku, Finland, in July/August 2014.

This book results from many years of teaching an upper division course on communication networks in the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley.

The six volume set LNCS 10634, LNCS 10635, LNCS 10636, LNCS 10637, LNCS 10638, and LNCS 10639 constitues the proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2017, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2017.

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 explores the complex relationships between sport and video games, two of the largest entertainment sectors globally.

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 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.

This book features peer reviewed contributions from across the disciplines on themes relating to protection of data and to privacy protection.

Get ready to rock with Apple's digital music recording studio Find out how to record, edit, mix, and master like a pro!

This book explores the impact of technology on Human Resource (HR) practices and how organisations can effectively incorporate progress in technology to improve HR processes.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2016, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in September 2016.

Theinformation infrastructure---comprising computers, embedded devices, networksand software systems---is vital to day-to-day operations in every sector:information and telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, chemicals andhazardous materials, agriculture, food, water, public health, emergencyservices, transportation, postal and shipping, government and defense.

"e;Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!

The use of digital information and communication technologies would be the traces of a social acceptability of the exploitation of all data, in the context of negotiations of uses.

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.

Recent technological advances have resulted in a new generation of powerful text processing and generation tools, that produce text very similar to what a human could do.

An expert guide to selecting the right cloud service model for your business Cloud computing is all the rage, allowing for the delivery of computing and storage capacity to a diverse community of end-recipients.

This book provides research insights into how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – 17 interconnected goals designed to address the world’s most pressing challenges by 2030.

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Catherine A.

This LNCS double volume LNCS 10069-10070 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2016, which includes the International Work Conference on Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL), and the International Conference on Am-bient Intelligence for Health (AmIHEALTH), held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in November/December 2016.

Design and assemble an inexpensive yet fast and reliable PCConstruct the PC of your dreams using the practical information contained in this hands-on guide.

COOP 2010 is the 9th edition of the International Conference on Designing Cooperative Systems, being the second European conference in the field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work after ECSCW.

In his In the blink of an eye, Walter Murch, the Oscar-awarded editor of The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, and many other outstanding movies, devises the Rule of Six -- six criteria for what makes a good cut.