Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

From hashtag activism to the flood of political memes on social media, the landscape of political communication is being transformed by the grassroots circulation of opinion on digital platforms and beyond.

From hashtag activism to the flood of political memes on social media, the landscape of political communication is being transformed by the grassroots circulation of opinion on digital platforms and beyond.

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.

Information Technology has become an essential component of contemporary society, allowing much faster and more widespread communication, not least through the growth of the Internet.

A' NO LOGO' for the net Generation - a no-holes barred story of the battle for the control of the internet, that reads like a thriller.

In one short decade, the internet has become a critical part of our everyday lives.

It's an age of accelerated information and information overload.

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

The national information infrastructure (NII) holds the promise of connecting people of all ages and descriptionsbringing them opportunities to interact with businesses, government agencies, entertainment sources, and social networks.

Schmidt and Bannon (1992) introduced the concept of common information space by contrasting it with technical conceptions of shared information: Cooperative work is not facilitated simply by the provisioning of a shared database, but rather requires the active construction by the participants of a common information space where the meanings of the shared objects are debated and resolved, at least locally and temporarily.

An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity's worst on today's commercial internetSocial media on the internet can be a nightmarish place.

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online-and the large societal impact of these decisionsMost users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn.

“[Tufekci’s] personal experience in the squares and streets, melded with her scholarly insights on technology and communication platforms, makes [this] such an unusual and illuminating work.

Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture.

A groundbreaking study of one of the most crucial yet least understood issues of the twenty-first century: the governance of the Internet and its content The Internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is conducted, arguably more than any other communication development in the past century.

An accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, and driverless cars.

A comprehensive overview of developments in augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality—and how they could affect every part of our lives.

From baby pictures in the cloud to a high school''s digital surveillance system: how adults unwittingly compromise children''s privacy online.

Practitioners and scholars explore ethical, social, and conceptual issues arising in relation to such devices as fitness monitors, neural implants, and a toe-controlled computer mouse.

How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local.

Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.

An original methodological framework for approaching the archived web, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right.

How the blockchain—a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust—can become trustworthy.

How making and sharing video games offer educational benefits for coding, collaboration, and creativity.

An engaging look at how we have learned to live with innovation and new technologies through history.

How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.

The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.

A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.

How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds—intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.

The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.

The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics.

Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.

A thorough analysis of contemporary digital media practices, showing how people increasingly not only consume but also produce and even design media.

Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.

Experts examine censorship, surveillance, and resistance across Asia, from China and India to Malaysia and the Philippines.

How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities.

A proposal that electracy—the special skills needed to navigate and understand our digital world—can be developed through play.

An account of how young people in Ghana''s capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.

Reports on a new generation of Internet controls that establish a new normative terrain in which surveillance and censorship are routine.

The odyssey of a group of “refugees” from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.

How the tools of information technology can support environmental sustainability by tackling problems that span broad scales of time, space, and complexity.

The aim of this book is to provide "e;human engineering"e; for workplaces, tools, machinery, computers, shift work, lighting, sound, climate, work demands, offices, vehicles, healthcare, and the home - and everything else that we can produce - to suit the human body and mind.