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Writing Space - Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Jay David Bolter Writing Space - Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Jay David Bolter
R4,727 Discovery Miles 47 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This second edition of Jay David Bolter's classic text expands on the objectives of the original volume, illustrating the relationship of print to new media, and examining how hypertext and other forms of electronic writing refashion or "remediate" the forms and genres of print. Reflecting the dynamic changes in electronic technology since the first edition, this revision incorporates the Web and other current standards of electronic writing. As a text for students in composition, new technologies, information studies, and related areas, this volume provides a unique examination of the computer as a technology for reading and writing.

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (Paperback): Wendell Berry Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (Paperback)
Wendell Berry 1
R77 Discovery Miles 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Science and Technologies for Smart Cities - 6th EAI International Conference, SmartCity360 Degrees, Virtual Event, December... Science and Technologies for Smart Cities - 6th EAI International Conference, SmartCity360 Degrees, Virtual Event, December 2-4, 2020, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Sara Paiva, Sergio Ivan Lopes, Rafik Zitouni, Nishu Gupta, Sergio F. Lopes, …
R3,041 Discovery Miles 30 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Annual Smart City 360 Degrees Summit. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The volume combines selected papers of seven conferences, namely AISCOVID 2020 - International Conference on AI-assisted Solutions for COVID-19 and Biomedical Applications in Smart-Cities; EdgeIoT 2020 - International Conference on Intelligent Edge Processing in the IoT Era; IC4S 2020 - International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems; CiCom 2020 - International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communications; S-Cube 2020 - International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software; SmartGov 2020 - International Conference on Smart Governance for Sustainable Smart Cities; and finnally, the Urb-IOT 2020 -International Conference on IoT in Urban Space.

Government Cloud Procurement - Contracts, Data Protection, and the Quest for Compliance (Hardcover, New Ed): Kevin McGillivray Government Cloud Procurement - Contracts, Data Protection, and the Quest for Compliance (Hardcover, New Ed)
Kevin McGillivray
R2,923 Discovery Miles 29 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Government Cloud Procurement, Kevin McGillivray explores the question of whether governments can adopt cloud computing services and still meet their legal requirements and other obligations to citizens. The book focuses on the interplay between the technical properties of cloud computing services and the complex legal requirements applicable to cloud adoption and use. The legal issues evaluated include data privacy law (GDPR and the US regime), jurisdictional issues, contracts, and transnational private law approaches to addressing legal requirements. McGillivray also addresses the unique position of governments when they outsource core aspects of their information and communications technology to cloud service providers. His analysis is supported by extensive research examining actual cloud contracts obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. With the demand for cloud computing on the rise, this study fills a gap in legal literature and offers guidance to organizations considering cloud computing.

Predicting Real World Behaviors from Virtual World Data (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Cuihua Shen, Jaideep... Predicting Real World Behaviors from Virtual World Data (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Cuihua Shen, Jaideep Srivastava, Noshir Contractor
R2,486 R1,821 Discovery Miles 18 210 Save R665 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is a growing body of literature that focuses on the similarities and differences between how people behave in the offline world vs. how they behave in these virtual environments. Data mining has aided in discovering interesting insights with respect to how people behave in these virtual environments. The book addresses prediction, mining and analysis of offline characteristics and behaviors from online data and vice versa. Each chapter will focus on a different aspect of virtual worlds to real world prediction e.g., demographics, personality, location, etc.

Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society (Hardcover, New Ed): Hans W. Micklitz, Oreste Pollicino, Amnon Reichman,... Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society (Hardcover, New Ed)
Hans W. Micklitz, Oreste Pollicino, Amnon Reichman, Andrea Simoncini, Giovanni Sartor, …
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New technologies have always challenged the social, economic, legal, and ideological status quo. Constitutional law is no less impacted by such technologically driven transformations, as the state must formulate a legal response to new technologies and their market applications, as well as the state's own use of new technology. In particular, the development of data collection, data mining, and algorithmic analysis by public and private actors present unique challenges to public law at the doctrinal as well as the theoretical level. This collection, aimed at legal scholars and practitioners, describes the constitutional challenges created by the algorithmic society. It offers an important synthesis of the state of play in law and technology studies, addressing the challenges for fundamental rights and democracy, the role of policy and regulation, and the responsibilities of private actors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

AI for Diversity (Paperback): Roger Soraa AI for Diversity (Paperback)
Roger Soraa
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It explore issues of diversity and inclusion in relation to artificial intelligence (AI). The author leads a research group on Digitalization and Robotization of Society at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Pandora's Box - Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age (Paperback): A. Adams Pandora's Box - Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age (Paperback)
A. Adams
R1,545 Discovery Miles 15 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Computing technology is constantly evolving and changing, developing and consolidating its position as a vital component of our lives. It no longer plays a minor part in society - it is embedded in, and affects, all aspects of life, from education to healthcare to war. Dealing with the implications of this is a major challenge, and one that can impact upon us, both personally and professionally. As a consequence, it is vital that all in the computing industry make wise decisions regarding their conduct.

Using case studies and discussion topics drawn from entertaining real world examples, "Pandora's Box" examines the background of a wide range of vital contemporary issues, encouraging readers to examine the social, legal and ethical challenges they will face in their own careers.

Written in an engaging style and packed with international examples, this book addresses topics which have come to the forefront of public consciousness in recent years, such as online crime, piracy and peer to peer file sharing. Comprehensive coverage is provided of digital entertainment, censorship and privacy issues, presenting a rich source of context in which to consider ethical matters.

Suitable for students on computer science degree programmes, as well as those taking IT related modules on other courses which consider the impact of technology on 21st century living, "Pandora's Box" is an essential read and a unique and timely textbook.

Reimagining Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Glen Miller, Ashley Shew Reimagining Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Glen Miller, Ashley Shew
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume includes eleven original essays that explore and expand on the work of Don Ihde, bookended by two chapters by Ihde himself. Ihde, the recipient of the first Society for Philosophy and Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, is best known for his development of postphenomenology, a blend of pragmatism and phenomenology that incorporates insights into the ways technology mediates human perception and action. The book contains contributions from academics from Europe, North America, and Asia, which demonstrates the global impact of Ihde's work. Essays in the book explore the relationship between Ihde's work and its origins in phenomenology (especially Husserl and Heidegger) and American pragmatism; integrate his philosophical work within the embodied experience of radical architecture and imagine the possibility of a future philosophy of technology after postphenomenology; develop central ideas of postphenomenology and expand the resources present in postphenomenology to ethics and politics; and extend the influence of Ihde's ideas to mobile media and engineering, and comprehensively assess the influence of his work in China. The book includes a reprint of the Introduction of Sense and Significance, one of Ihde's first books; "Hawk: Predatory Vision," a new chapter that blends his biographical experience with feminism, technoscience, and environmental observation; and an appendix that lists all of Ihde's books as well as secondary sources annotated by Ihde himself. Starting with an Editors' Introduction that offers an overview of the central ideas in Ihde's corpus and concluding with an index that facilitates research across the various chapters, this book is of interest to a diverse academic community that includes philosophers, STS scholars, anthropologists, historians, and sociologists.

Collaborative Information Seeking - The Art and Science of Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of All (Hardcover, 2012 ed.):... Collaborative Information Seeking - The Art and Science of Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of All (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Chirag Shah
R2,933 Discovery Miles 29 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Today's complex, information-intensive problems often require people to work together. Mostly these tasks go far beyond simply searching together; they include information lookup, sharing, synthesis, and decision-making. In addition, they all have an end-goal that is mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Such "collaborative information seeking" (CIS) projects typically last several sessions and the participants all share an intention to contribute and benefit. Not surprisingly, these processes are highly interactive. Shah focuses on two individually well-understood notions: collaboration and information seeking, with the goal of bringing them together to show how it is a natural tendency for humans to work together on complex tasks. The first part of his book introduces the general notions of collaboration and information seeking, as well as related concepts, terminology, and frameworks; and thus provides the reader with a comprehensive treatment of the concepts underlying CIS. The second part of the book details CIS as a standalone domain. A series of frameworks, theories, and models are introduced to provide a conceptual basis for CIS. The final part describes several systems and applications of CIS, along with their broader implications on other fields such as computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and human-computer interaction (HCI). With this first comprehensive overview of an exciting new research field, Shah delivers to graduate students and researchers in academia and industry an encompassing description of the technologies involved, state-of-the-art results, and open challenges as well as research opportunities.

Online Social Networks - Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter Personal Graphs (Paperback): Valerio Arnaboldi,... Online Social Networks - Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter Personal Graphs (Paperback)
Valerio Arnaboldi, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti, Robin I.M. Dunbar
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Online Social Networks: Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter provides new insights into the structural properties of personal online social networks and the mechanisms underpinning human online social behavior. As the availability of digital communication data generated by social media is revolutionizing the field of social networks analysis, the text discusses the use of large- scale datasets to study the structural properties of online ego networks, to compare them with the properties of general human social networks, and to highlight additional properties. Users will find the data collected and conclusions drawn useful during design or research service initiatives that involve online and mobile social network environments.

Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - 15th CCF Conference, ChineseCSCW 2020, Shenzhen, China, November... Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - 15th CCF Conference, ChineseCSCW 2020, Shenzhen, China, November 7-9, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Yuqing Sun, Dongning Liu, Hao Liao, Hongfei Fan, Liping Gao
R4,323 Discovery Miles 43 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2020, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2020.The 40 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on: crowdsourcing, crowd intelligence, and crowd cooperative computing; domain-specific collaborative applications; collaborative mechanisms, models, approaches, algorithms, and systems; social media and online communities; and short papers.

The Art of Immersion - How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories... The Art of Immersion - How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories (Paperback)
Frank Rose
R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are media. No longer content in our traditional role as couch potatoes, we approach television shows, movies, even advertising as invitations to participate as experiences to immerse ourselves in at will. Frank Rose introduces us to the people who are reshaping media for a two-way world, changing how we play, how we communicate, and how we think."

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future - An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies... Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future - An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Bernd Carsten Stahl
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This open access book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster medical diagnoses, improved business processes and efficiency, and the automation of boring work. But undesirable and ethically problematic consequences are possible too: biases and discrimination, breaches of privacy and security, and societal distortions such as unemployment, economic exploitation and weakened democratic processes. There is even a prospect, ultimately, of super-intelligent machines replacing humans. The key question, then, is: how can we benefit from AI while addressing its ethical problems? This book presents an innovative answer to the question by presenting a different perspective on AI and its ethical consequences. Instead of looking at individual AI techniques, applications or ethical issues, we can understand AI as a system of ecosystems, consisting of numerous interdependent technologies, applications and stakeholders. Developing this idea, the book explores how AI ecosystems can be shaped to foster human flourishing. Drawing on rich empirical insights and detailed conceptual analysis, it suggests practical measures to ensure that AI is used to make the world a better place.

HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Rens Brankaert, Gail Kenning HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Rens Brankaert, Gail Kenning
R2,949 Discovery Miles 29 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Old age is currently the greatest risk factor for developing dementia. Since older people make up a larger portion of the population than ever before, the resulting increase in the incidence of dementia presents a major challenge for society. Dementia is complex and multifaceted and impacts not only the person with the diagnosis but also those caring for them and society as a whole. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design and development are pivotal in enabling people with dementia to live well and be supported in the communities around them. HCI is increasingly addressing the need for inclusivity and accessibility in the design and development of new technologies, interfaces, systems, services, and tools. Using interdisciplinary approaches HCI engages with the complexities and 'messiness' of real-world design spaces to provide novel perspectives and new ways of addressing the challenge of dementia and multi-stakeholder needs. HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia brings together the work of international experts, designers and researchers working across disciplines. It provides methodologies, methods and frameworks, approaches to participatory engagement and case studies showing how technology can impact the lives of people living with dementia and those around them. It includes examples of how to conduct dementia research and design in-context in the field of HCI, ethically and effectively and how these issues transcend the design space of dementia to inform HCI design and technology development more broadly. The book is valuable for and aimed at designers, researchers, scholars and caregivers that work with vulnerable groups like people with dementia, and those directly impacted.

Decision Making in Social Sciences: Between Traditions and Innovations (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Daniel Flaut, Sarka... Decision Making in Social Sciences: Between Traditions and Innovations (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Daniel Flaut, Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova, Cristina Ispas, Fabrizio Maturo, Cristina Flaut
R4,520 Discovery Miles 45 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores several branches of the social sciences and their perspectives regarding their relations with decision-making processes: computer science, education, linguistics, sociology, and management. The decision-making process in social contexts is based on the analysis of sound alternatives using evaluative criteria. Therefore, this process is one that can be rational or irrational, and can be based on knowledge and/or beliefs. A decision-making process always produces a final decision, which may or may not imply prompt action, and increases the chances of choosing the best possible alternative. The book is divided into four main parts. The concepts covered in the first part, on computer science, explore how the rise of algorithms and the growth in computing power over the years can influence decision-making processes. In the second part, some traditional and innovative ideas and methods used in education are presented: compulsory schooling, inclusive schools, higher education, etc. In turn, the third part focuses on linguistics aspects, and examines how progress is manifested in language. The fourth part, on sociology, explores how society can be influenced by social norms, human interactions, culture, and religion. Management, regarded as a science of the decision-making process, is explored in the last part of this book. Selected organizations' strategies, objectives and resources are presented, e.g., human resources, financial resources, and technological resources. The book gathers and presents, in a concise format, a broad range of aspects regarding the decision-making process in social contexts, making it a valuable and unique resource for the scientific community.

Technically Wrong - Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (Paperback): Sara Wachter-Boettcher Technically Wrong - Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (Paperback)
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed or why. It's time we changed that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Sign-up forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars. Technically Wrong takes an unflinching look at the values, processes and assumptions that lead to these problems and more. Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use-and demand more from the companies behind them.

Robotica - Lo que los principiantes deben saber sobre la automatizacion de procesos roboticos, robots moviles, inteligencia... Robotica - Lo que los principiantes deben saber sobre la automatizacion de procesos roboticos, robots moviles, inteligencia artificial, aprendizaje automatico, drones y nuestro futuro (Spanish, Hardcover)
Neil Wilkins
R741 R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Save R111 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Utopia Is Creepy - And Other Provocations (Hardcover): Nicholas Carr Utopia Is Creepy - And Other Provocations (Hardcover)
Nicholas Carr
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers an alternative history of the digital age, chronicling its roller-coaster crazes and crashes, its blind triumphs, and its unintended consequences. Carr's favorite targets are those zealots who believe so fervently in computers and data that they abandon common sense. Cheap digital tools do not make us all the next Fellini or Dylan. Social networks, diverting as they may be, are not vehicles for self-enlightenment. And "likes" and retweets are not going to elevate political discourse. When we expect technologies-designed for profit-to deliver a paradise of prosperity and convenience, we have forgotten ourselves. In response, Carr offers searching assessments of the future of work, the fate of reading, and the rise of artificial intelligence, challenging us to see our world anew. In famous essays including "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Privacy," Carr dissects the logic behind Silicon Valley's "liberation mythology," showing how technology has both enriched and imprisoned us-often at the same time. Drawing on artists ranging from Walt Whitman to the Clash, while weaving in the latest findings from science and sociology, Utopia Is Creepy compels us to question the technological momentum that has trapped us in its flow. "Resistance is never futile," argues Carr, and this book delivers the proof.

Children's Online Behaviour and Safety - Policy and Rights Challenges (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017): Andy Phippen Children's Online Behaviour and Safety - Policy and Rights Challenges (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Andy Phippen
R1,539 Discovery Miles 15 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the use of technology in young people's social lives against a backdrop of "online safety measures" put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to compare the grass roots of digital behaviours with attempts by policy makers to control access and prohibit "bad" behaviours. In conducting an analysis of current UK policy positions and media perspectives against ethnographic research in areas such as gaming and sexting, the book highlights the flaws in approaching the control of disruptive social behaviours using prohibitive approaches. It also highlights the gulf between the experiences of young people and the capabilities of the school system to deliver effective education around safe online behaviours. The author illustrates the complex relationship young people have with technology, as active engagers rather than passive consumers, and looks at the ways in which their needs for effective education and resilience are currently not being met. Furthermore, he demonstrates how, in an effort to make them safe, stakeholders are eroding children's fundamental rights. Children's Online Behaviour and Safety will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and students researching and practicing in education, sociology, children's law, children's digital rights and social policy.

The Technology Trap - Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Paperback): Carl Benedikt Frey The Technology Trap - Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Paperback)
Carl Benedikt Frey
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book Review How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation The Technology Trap is a sweeping account of the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society's members. As Carl Benedikt Frey shows, the Industrial Revolution created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but the immediate consequences of mechanization were devastating. Middle-income jobs withered, wages stagnated, the labor share of income fell, profits surged, and economic inequality skyrocketed. These trends broadly mirror those in our current age of automation. But, just as the Industrial Revolution eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same. The Technology Trap demonstrates that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present.

E-Government, E-Services and Global Processes - Joint IFIP TC 8 and TC 6 International Conferences, EGES 2010 and GISP 2010,... E-Government, E-Services and Global Processes - Joint IFIP TC 8 and TC 6 International Conferences, EGES 2010 and GISP 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010, Proceedings (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
Marijn Janssen, Winfried Lamersdorf, Jan Pries-Heje, Michael Rosemann
R1,563 Discovery Miles 15 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contains the proceedings of two of the IFIP conferences that took place at the IFIP World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane, Australia. The proceedings of each conference are allocated separate parts in this book each with their own editors. E-Government and E-Services (EGES) page 3 Marijn Janssen / Winfried Lamersdorf Global Information Systems Processes (GISP) page 183 Jan Pries-Heje / Michael Rosemann Organization E-Government and E-Services (EGES 2010) EGES Co-chairs Marijn Janssen Delft, The Netherlands Winfried Lamersdorf Hamburg, Germany Lalit Sawhney Bangalore, India Leon Strous Helmond, The Netherlands EGES Reviewers Agarwal Ashok ACS Technologies Ltd., Bhoopal, India Mark Borman University of Sydney, Australia Erwin Fielt Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Ernest Foo Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia M.P. Gupta Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Paul Henman The University of Queensland, Australia Ralf Klischewski German University, Cairo, Egypt Christine Leitner Donau-Universit. at Krems, Austria Miriam Lips Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Zoran Milosevic Deontic, Brisbane, Australia Oystein Sabo University of Agder, Norway Jochen Scholl University of Washington, Seattle, USA Leif Skiftenes University of Agder, Norway Weerakoddy Vishanth Brunel University Business School, West London, UK Dirk Werth DFKI, Saarbruc . . ken, Germany Maria Wimmer University Koblenz-Landau, Germany EGES Subreviewers Alexandra Chapko, Andreas Emrich and Marc Graessle German Research Center for Arti?cial Intelligence, Saarbruc .. ken, Germany Kristof Hamann, Kai Jander, Ante Vilenica and Sonja Zaplata University of Hamburg, Germany Global Information Systems Processes (GISP 2010) GISP Co-chairs Jan Pries-Heje Roskilde University, Denmark

Mobile Technology and Social Transformations - Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts (Paperback): Stefanie Felsberger, Ramesh... Mobile Technology and Social Transformations - Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts (Paperback)
Stefanie Felsberger, Ramesh Subramanian
R1,202 Discovery Miles 12 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disseminate, and access knowledge. Worldwide, mobile internet access has surpassed desktop access, and it is estimated that by 2022 there will be AN excess of 6 billion mobile phone users in the world. This widespread proliferation raises all sorts of questions around who creates knowledge, how is that knowledge shared and proliferated, and what are the structural political, economic, and legal conditions in which knowledge is accessed. The practices and power dynamics around mobile technologies are location specific. They look different depending on whether one chooses to highlight the legal, social, political, or economic context. Bringing together scholars, journalists, activists and practitioners from around the world, this book embraces this complexity, providing a multifaceted picture that acknowledges the tensions and contradictions surrounding accessing knowledge through mobile technologies. With case studies from Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Syria, Egypt, Botswana, Brazil, and the US, this book provides an important account of the changing nature of our access to knowledge, and is key reading for students, researchers, activists and policy makers with an interest in technology and access to knowledge, communication, social transformation, and global development.

Move Fast and Break Things - How Facebook, Google and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy (Paperback):... Move Fast and Break Things - How Facebook, Google and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy (Paperback)
Jonathan Taplin 1
R321 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that create the content - the artists, writers and musicians - are finding they can no longer survive in this unforgiving economic landscape. But it didn't have to be this way. In Move Fast and Break Things, Jonathan Taplin offers a succinct and powerful history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel and Larry Page who founded these all-powerful companies. Their unprecedented growth came at the heavy cost of tolerating piracy of books, music and film, while at the same time promoting opaque business practices and subordinating the privacy of individual users to create the surveillance marketing monoculture in which we now live. It is the story of a massive reallocation of revenue in which $50 billion a year has moved from the creators and owners of content to the monopoly platforms. With this reallocation of money comes a shift in power. Google, Facebook and Amazon now enjoy political power on par with Big Oil and Big Pharma, which in part explains how such a tremendous shift in revenues from creators to platforms could have been achieved and why it has gone unchallenged for so long. And if you think that's got nothing to do with you, their next move is to come after your jobs. Move Fast and Break Things is a call to arms, to say that is enough is enough and to demand that we do everything in our power to create a different future.

IoT - Security and Privacy Paradigm (Hardcover): Souvik Pal, Vicente Garcia Diaz, Dac-Nhuong Le IoT - Security and Privacy Paradigm (Hardcover)
Souvik Pal, Vicente Garcia Diaz, Dac-Nhuong Le
R4,676 Discovery Miles 46 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

IOT: Security and Privacy Paradigm covers the evolution of security and privacy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). It focuses on bringing all security and privacy related technologies into one source, so that students, researchers, and practitioners can refer to this book for easy understanding of IoT security and privacy issues. This edited book uses Security Engineering and Privacy-by-Design principles to design a secure IoT ecosystem and to implement cyber-security solutions. This book takes the readers on a journey that begins with understanding the security issues in IoT-enabled technologies and how it can be applied in various aspects. It walks readers through engaging with security challenges and builds a safe infrastructure for IoT devices. The book helps readers gain an understand of security architecture through IoT and describes the state of the art of IoT countermeasures. It also differentiates security threats in IoT-enabled infrastructure from traditional ad hoc or infrastructural networks, and provides a comprehensive discussion on the security challenges and solutions in RFID, WSNs, in IoT. This book aims to provide the concepts of related technologies and novel findings of the researchers through its chapter organization. The primary audience includes specialists, researchers, graduate students, designers, experts and engineers who are focused on research and security related issues. Souvik Pal, PhD, has worked as Assistant Professor in Nalanda Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, and JIS College of Engineering, Kolkata (NAAC "A" Accredited College). He is the organizing Chair and Plenary Speaker of RICE Conference in Vietnam; and organizing co-convener of ICICIT, Tunisia. He has served in many conferences as chair, keynote speaker, and he also chaired international conference sessions and presented session talks internationally. His research area includes Cloud Computing, Big Data, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Internet of Things, and Data Analytics. Vicente Garcia-Diaz, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oviedo (Languages and Computer Systems area). He is also the editor of several special issues in prestigious journals such as Scientific Programming and International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include eLearning, machine learning and the use of domain specific languages in different areas. Dac-Nhuong Le, PhD, is Deputy-Head of Faculty of Information Technology, and Vice-Director of Information Technology Apply and Foreign Language Training Center, Haiphong University, Vietnam. His area of research includes: evaluation computing and approximate algorithms, network communication, security and vulnerability, network performance analysis and simulation, cloud computing, IoT and image processing in biomedical. Presently, he is serving on the editorial board of several international journals and has authored nine computer science books published by Springer, Wiley, CRC Press, Lambert Publication, and Scholar Press.

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