Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

A trio of headlines in the Chronicle of Higher Education seem to say it all: in 2013, "e;A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves;"e; in 2014, "e;Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise,"e; and in 2015, "e;The MOOC Hype Fades.

Social information access is defined as a stream of research that explores methods for organizing the past interactions of users in a community in order to provide future users with better access to information.

Cryptology, for millennia a "e;secret science"e;, is rapidly gaining in practical importance for the protection of communication channels, databases, and software.

International Federation for Information ProcessingThe IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017.

Technologies such as artificial intelligence have led to significant advances in science and medicine, but have also facilitated new forms of repression, policing and surveillance.

A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2019, held in Jaworze, near Bielsko-Biala, Poland, in March 2019.

Make your computer a green machine and live greener at home and at work Get on board the green machine!

On behalf of the Program Committee, it is our pleasure to present the p- ceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2008), which took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA on September 15-17.

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

Provides academics, journalists, and general readers with bird''s-eye view of data-driven practices and their impact in politics and media.

CSCL 2: Carrying Forward the Conversation is a thorough and up-to-date survey of recent developments in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, one of the fastest growing areas of research in the learning sciences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 9.

The perspectives and techniques used in human-computer interaction design, practice and research are broadening.

On behalf of the PROFES organizing committee we would like to welcome you to the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Impro- ment (PROFES 2002) in Rovaniemi, Finland.

ECOOP is the premier forum in Europe for bringing together practitioners, - searchers, and students to share their ideas and experiences in a broad range of disciplines woven with the common thread of object technology.

How the digital revolution has shaped our languageIn the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting many aspects of people's lives across the globe, from relatively mundane technology to more advanced digital systems that can make their own decisions.

The ultimate beginner guide to the groundbreaking music service, Spotify!

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in October/November 2013.

Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game World of Warcraft, to examine notions of entangled subjectivity, affects, and embodiments - what it means and how it feels to be posthuman.

There is growing recognition of the need to address the fragility of digital information, on which our society heavily depends for smooth operation in all aspects of daily life.

Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year).

Let's be realistic here.

th It is our great pleasure to present this volume of the proceedings of the 10 edition of Information Hiding (IH 2008).

Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other.

Die ehemals den Massenmedien vorbehaltene Funktion, die Gesellschaft zu reflektieren und diese gesellschaftlichen Selbstbeschreibungen auch gesellschaftsweit bekannt zu machen, kann heute auch von Social-Media-Plattformen erfüllt werden, wenn die Nutzer*innen dort die Gesellschaft beschreiben und diese Beiträge massenhaft verbreitet werden.

This book explores the emerging field of hyperconnectivity looking at technology and systems that allow person-to-person and person-to-machine communication in networked organizations and the social and economic impact of this society.

Personal data is increasingly important in our lives.

 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Audio-and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA 2003, held in Guilford, UK in June 2003.

This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil.

Thedesignandanalysisoftradingagentsandelectronictradingsystemsinwhich they are deployed involve ?

In recent years the management of business processes has emerged as one of the major developments to ease the understanding of, communication about, and evolution of process-oriented information systems in a variety of appli- tion domains.

Considering the overall situation of the current pandemic and pertinent recommendations, this book focuses on the use of augmented reality (AR) applications for preventing COVID-19 outbreaks along with techniques, tools, and platforms to achieve social distancing.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 11.

The Internet has now become an integral part of everyday life for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2015, held in Athens, Greece, in November 2015.

"e;A fascinating insight into potentially one of the most exciting developments that affects each and every one of us as we move forward into the 21st Century.

The increase in fake news, the growing influence on elections, increasing false reports and targeted disinformation campaigns are not least a consequence of advancing digitalisation.

Blockchain is no longer just about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general.

Information is everywhere, and defines everything in today's society.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing, TRUST 2014, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in June/July 2014.