Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

What happens when a new social technology is imposed on the established social technology of the school?

How can we make sure that our children are learning to be creative thinkers in a world of global competition - and what does that mean for the future of education in the digital age?

In this theoretically and empirically engaging volume, the contributors demonstrate that despite the dynamism of India's software industry and the rhetorical flourishes of industry leaders, at present, the benefits of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) touch only the hundreds of thousands with the right skills and access.

This collection of original essays discusses the implications of the new media for the creation, delivery and assessment of English studies.

This edited collection provides the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of automated decision-making, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithms, and how they can be used in criminal proceedings.

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Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities.

This work explores the growing convergence between youth culture and digital communication technologies and the corresponding challenges posed to policymakers, examining the current governance debate on online child safety.

Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today.

This book provides rare insights into the nature of contemporary, technologically-facilitated government.

Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life, this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health through the internet, and reveals concerns that sexually transmitted infections and HIV are associated with such technologies.

What Does the Digital You Look Like?

By exploring the experiences of community activists and organizations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the role ICT plays in people's lives.

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.

The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression.

Focusing on four key aspects of Web3, the book explores metaverses, data governance, public and private law interfaces, and access to justice, presenting new research on the impact of data analytics on transactions within law, on regulatory activities, and on the practice of law.

Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their points of view.

Computing isn't only (or even mostly) about hardware and software; it's also about the ideas behind the technology.

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000.

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000.

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains.

Is the Internet erasing national borders?

Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today.

Computing isn't only (or even mostly) about hardware and software; it's also about the ideas behind the technology.

In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then the American Minister to France, had the "e;complete skeleton, skin & horns"e; of an American moose shipped to him in Paris and mounted in the lobby of his residence as a symbol of the vast possibilities contained in the strange and largely unexplored New World.

In this much anticipated sequel to the legal bestseller, The Future of Law, Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers to ask themselves, with their hands on their hearts, what elements of their current workload could be undertaken differently - more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working.

In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then the American Minister to France, had the "e;complete skeleton, skin & horns"e; of an American moose shipped to him in Paris and mounted in the lobby of his residence as a symbol of the vast possibilities contained in the strange and largely unexplored New World.

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains.

In The Digital Hand, James W.

Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today.

Is the Internet erasing national borders?

According to virtually every business writer, we are in the midst of a new "e;information age,"e; one that will revolutionize how workers work, how companies compete, perhaps even how thinkers think.

Computers have dramatically altered life in the late twentieth century.

Highly publicized legal cases, such as those involving libel verdicts, obscenity prosecutions, the First Amendment, and other areas of media law have focused attention on only one part of the media's impact on law.

This sweeping introduction to the science of virtual environment technology masterfully integrates research and practical applications culled from a range of disciplines, including psychology, engineering, and computer science.

Virtual reality has introduced what is literally a new dimension of reality to daily life.

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work?

A comprehensive overview into digital literary studies that equips readers to navigate the difficult contentions in this space.

A comprehensive overview into digital literary studies that equips readers to navigate the difficult contentions in this space.

Many people need help planning for retirement, saving, investing, and decumulating their assets, yet financial advice is often complex, potentially conflicted, and expensive.

Many people need help planning for retirement, saving, investing, and decumulating their assets, yet financial advice is often complex, potentially conflicted, and expensive.

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work?

We live in an incredible period in history.

We live in an incredible period in history.

In the past two decades, the Internet has come to dominate every aspect of everyday life.

In the past two decades, the Internet has come to dominate every aspect of everyday life.

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

The mathematical genius Alan Turing, now well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, was the first to conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer-the idea of controlling a computing machine's operations by means of a program of coded instructions, stored in the machine's 'memory'.

How is society being shaped by the diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work?

This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet.