Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has been described as the next big leap in digital capitalism.

The Internet and the many applications it supports continue to transform and expand the ways in which it is possible to relate, communicate, collaborate, and perform human service work.

The Internet and the many applications it supports continue to transform and expand the ways in which it is possible to relate, communicate, collaborate, and perform human service work.

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

This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed the "e;great divide"e; between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported cooperative work--a question that has been vigorously debated in the systems development literature.

This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed the "e;great divide"e; between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported cooperative work--a question that has been vigorously debated in the systems development literature.

The book explores the creation of digital personalities that mimic human behaviour and cognition, authored by AI and computer science experts.

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media.

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media.

Discover the Future of Technology with The Rise of AI Agents In The Rise of AI Agents, you'll explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, and Quantum Computing are revolutionizing the world.

Technology has become increasingly important to both the function and our understanding of the justice process.

Technology has become increasingly important to both the function and our understanding of the justice process.

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media.

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media.

Big data, surveillance, crisis management.

Big data, surveillance, crisis management.

We can't imagine our lives without the Internet.

We can't imagine our lives without the Internet.

Research on cybercrime has been largely bifurcated, with social science and computer science researchers working with different research agendas.

Research on cybercrime has been largely bifurcated, with social science and computer science researchers working with different research agendas.

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it.

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it.

As a social space, the web provides researchers both with a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life.

As a social space, the web provides researchers both with a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life.

This book is devoted to the new standards, technologies, and communication systems for Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) networks.

The ever-changing world of wearable technologies makes it difficult for experts and practitioners to keep up with the most recent developments.

Because social media and technology companies rule the Internet, only a digital constitution can protect our rights online.

Shows how digital transformations and new visibilities shape how people live, how organizations work and how societies and politics operate.

This book unifies and consolidates methods for analyzing multilayer networks arising from the social and physical sciences and computing.

This book unifies and consolidates methods for analyzing multilayer networks arising from the social and physical sciences and computing.

Social media is invaluable during crises like natural disasters, but difficult to analyze.

Social media is invaluable during crises like natural disasters, but difficult to analyze.

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

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

This book outlines social and moral guidelines to combat violent, hateful, and illegal activity on the Internet.

This book outlines social and moral guidelines to combat violent, hateful, and illegal activity on the Internet.

Leaders in the field of serious games share practical guidelines and lessons learned from researching and developing learning games.

Leaders in the field of serious games share practical guidelines and lessons learned from researching and developing learning games.

A resource for social scientists on how Twitter data can be used to study individual behavior and social interaction.

A resource for social scientists on how Twitter data can be used to study individual behavior and social interaction.

Step Beyond the Screen: Rediscover Lifes Vibrant PaletteFeel like youre missing out on the colors of real life, hidden behind the dull glow of screens?

Data access is essential for serving the public good.

Data access is essential for serving the public good.

With blockchain underpinning cryptocurrencies and improving IoT security, this book uncovers the evolution of blockchain (1.

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

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

Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present.

Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present.

From predictive policing to self-surveillance to private security, the potential uses to of big data in crime control pose serious legal and ethical challenges relating to privacy, discrimination, and the presumption of innocence.

From predictive policing to self-surveillance to private security, the potential uses to of big data in crime control pose serious legal and ethical challenges relating to privacy, discrimination, and the presumption of innocence.