Internet: general works Books

Book SynopsisPolitics continues to evolve in the digital era, spurred in part by the accelerating pace of technological development. This cutting-edge Handbook includes the very latest research on the relationship between digital information, communication technologies and politics.Written by leading scholars in the field, the chapters explore in seven parts: theories of digital politics, government and policy, collective action and civic engagement, political talk, journalism, internet governance and new frontiers in digital politics research. The contributors focus on the politics behind the implementation of digital technologies in society today.All students in the fields of politics, media and communication studies, journalism, science and sociology will find this book to be a useful resource in their studies. Political practitioners seeking digital strategies, as well as web and other digital practitioners wanting to know more about political applications for their work will also find this book to be of interest.Contributors include: E. Amnå, N. Anstead, N. Benn, W.L. Bennett, C. Birchall, L. Bode, A. Bruns, S. Coleman, N. Couldry, K.B. Culver, P. Dahlgren, E. Dubois, W.H. Dutton, S. Edgerly, D. Freelon, C. Fuchs, S. González-Bailon, T. Graham, T. Hall, A. Hanna, T. Highfield, F. Hirzalla, Y. Kim, D. Kreiss, T. Mcafee, G. Moss, B. O'Loughlin, K. Parry, R. Petchler, J. Schradie, A. Segerberg, D.V. Shah, K. Thorson, N. Thurman, E. Vraga, C. Wells, S. Wright, M.A. Xenos, J. Yang, L. van ZoonenTrade Review'Coleman and Freelon have deftly edited a series of essays that help us transition to the next big thing in political communication - an internet connecting many people over many kinds of devices making large volumes of data. Digital politics is no longer so much about what happens in your browser, but about what happens when your devices talk to each other on their own. This collection helps us get ready to understand the new infrastructure of political life.' --Philip N. Howard, University of Washington'The Handbook of Digital Politics edited by Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon is an incredibly rich and outstanding collection of essays on the ideologies, theories and methodologies that currently inspire the field of political science and communication. The editors brilliantly succeed in guiding us through this fascinating world - avoiding any rhetoric, or either a dystopian or utopian perspective on the subject. The articles collected here represent the golden section of the contemporary debate on digital politics.' --Leopoldina Fortunati, Head of the Ph.D program in Multimedia Communication, University of Udine, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Digital Politics Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon PART I THEORIZING DIGITAL POLITICS 2. The Internet as a Civic Space Peter Dahlgren 3. The Social Foundations of Future Digital Politics Nick Couldry 4. The Fifth Estate: A Rising Force of Pluralistic Accountability William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois 5. Silicon Valley Ideology and Class Inequality: A Virtual Poll Tax on Digital Politics Jen Schradie PART II GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 6. Online Voting Advice Applications: Foci, Findings and Future of an Emerging Research Field Fadi Hirzalla and Liesbet van Zoonen 7. Internet Voting: The State of the Debate Thad Hall 8. Digital Campaigning Daniel Kreiss 9. e-Petitions Scott Wright 10. Argumentation Tools for Digital Politics: Addressing the Challenge of Deliberation in Democracies Neil Benn PART III COLLECTIVE ACTION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 11. The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and The Personalization of Contentious Politics W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg 12. Youth Civic Engagement Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode 13. Internet Use and Political Engagement in Youth Yunhwan Kim and Erik Amnå PART IV POLITICAL TALK 14. Everyday Political Talk in the Internet-Based Public Sphere Todd Graham 15. Creating Spaces for Online Deliberation Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman 16. Computational Approaches to Online Political Expression: Rediscovering a “Science of the Social” Dhavan V. Shah, Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Alex Hanna, Timothy Mcafee, and JungHwan Yang 17. Two-screen Politics: Evidence, Theory and Challenges Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin PART V JOURNALISM 18. From News Blogs to News on Twitter: Gatewatching and Collaborative News Curation Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield 19. Research on the Political Implications of Political Entertainment Michael A. Xenos 20. Journalism, Gatekeeping and Interactivity Neil Thurman PART VI INTERNET GOVERNANCE 21. Internet Governance, Rights and Democratic Legitimacy Giles Moss 22. Social Media Surveillance Christian Fuchs PART VII EXPANDING THE FRONTIERS OF DIGITAL POLITICS RESEARCH 23. Visibility and Visualities: ‘Ways of Seeing’ Politics in the Digital Media Environment Katy Parry 24. Automated Content Analysis of Online Political Communication Ross Petchler and Sandra González-Bailon 25. On the Cutting Edge of Big Data: Digital Politics Research in the Social Computing Literature Deen Freelon Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisDan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the nebulous role of "marketing fellow." What could possibly go wrong? What follows is a hilarious and excoriating account of Dan's time at the start-up and a revealing window onto the dysfunctional culture that prevails in a world flush with cash and devoid of experience. Filled with stories of meaningless jargon, teddy bears at meetings, push-up competitions and all-night parties, this uproarious tale is also a trenchant analysis of the dysfunctional start-up world, a de facto conspiracy between those who start companies and those who fund them. It is a world where bad ideas are rewarded with hefty investments, where companies blow money lavishing perks on their post-collegiate workforces, and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to cash out with a fortune.Trade ReviewLyons finds the right company, if only for the raw material that he, a seasoned satirist, spins into gold... But the book is not just a chronicle of the tech bubble's silly quirks... Lyons uses the lens of his growing disillusionment to focus on a broader critique of Silicon Valley. * Financial Times *'Simultaneously hilarious and terrifying' * LA Times *Wildly entertaining... Disrupted explores the ways in which many technology companies have come to fool the public and themselves. Lyons has injected a dose of sanity into a world gone mad. -- Ashlee Vance, Sunday Times bestselling author of Elon Musk'Laugh-out-loud funny.' * Newsweek *Fun, compulsively readable and just might tell us something important about the hypocrisy and cult-like fervor inside today's technology giants. -- Brad Stone, Author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of AmazonScathingly funny . . . Like the show Silicon Valley, Disrupted nails the workings of spastic, hypocritical, delusional tech culture. * New York Post *'A hugely entertaining insider view of the vainglorious world of tech, yet it is also an important rumination on the values of our age.' * Irish Times *'This humorous and well-crafted memoir is part of a proud literary tradition: the disgruntled ex-employee tell-all.' * Harvard Business Review *Dan Lyons goes deep inside a company that uses terms like 'world class marketing thought leaders' to show us how ridiculous, wasteful, and infantile tech start-ups like this can be. And best of all, Lyons does this with his trademark pejorative and hilarious tone. -- Author of Hatching Twitter

Read more less

Book Synopsis'Internet development dynamics are tackled in this Handbook by leading scholars representing mainstream, institutional, evolutionary economics and political economy perspectives. They show how complex markets for digital technologies and services are evolving. Crucially, they demonstrate why conventional analytical tool kits need to be extended by bridging disciplinary boundaries. This volume offers significant advances in the analysis of technological and institutional change and demonstrates how important it is to acknowledge conflict resolution and tradeoffs as essential aspects of the internet's history and its future.'-Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKThe Internet is connecting an increasing number of individuals, organizations, and devices into global networks of information flows. It is accelerating the dynamics of innovation in the digital economy, affecting the nature and intensity of competition, and enabling private companies, government, and the non-profit sector to develop new business models. In this new ecosystem many of the theoretical assumptions and historical observations upon which economics rests are altered and need critical reassessment.This Handbook brings together twenty-six original chapters that discuss theoretical and applied frameworks for the study of the economics of the Internet, encompassing: its unique economics as a global information and communications infrastructure the effects of the Internet on economic transactions, including social production, advertising, innovation, and intellectual property rights the economics and management of Internet-based industries, such as search, news, entertainment, culture, and virtual worlds the effects of the Internet on the economy at large Interdisciplinary in its approach, the Handbook synthesizes the state of knowledge and offers new perspectives for researchers, practitioners, and students.Contributors: S. Aggarwal, C. Antonelli, H. Asghari, J.M. Bauer, S. Bauer, Y. Benkler, S.M. Besen, I. Brown, E. Castronova, D.D. Clark, C. Corrado, C. Feijóo, D.L. Garcia, J.-L. Gómez-Barroso, C. Handke, J. Haucap, K. Hollnbuchner, N. Just, G. Knieps, I. Knowles, J.J. Kranz, L. Küng, M. Latzer, W.H. Lehr, Y.-L. Liu, W. Ma, P. Mazepa, V. Mosco, N. Newman, E.M. Noam, P.P. Patrucco, R.G. Picard, A. Picot, G. Sadowsky, F. Saurwein, V. Schneider, S.J. Schultze, R. Sherman, P. Stepan, T. Stühmeier, R. Towse, B. Van Ark, M. Van Eeten, B. Van Schewick, H.R. Varian, D. Waterman, R.S. Whitt, S.S. Wildman, S. Wunsch-VincentTrade Review'The Internet has transformed many fundamental economic facts of life and business, but it is challenging to catalogue them all. This topic deserves a comprehensive handbook, and the editors delivered. The chapters are engaging and lucid, and cover a wide range of topics. The editors were not shy about spanning boundaries between technical detail, economic analysis, and policy relevance. This is a great resource for any modern scholar of the Internet.' --Shane Greenstein, Harvard Business School'The Handbook provides an outstanding insight on understanding all kinds of businesses carrying over the information super-highway called the Internet.' --Science and Public Policy'This handbook has the laudable aim of providing an original map of research in the Internet Economics field. It succeeds in this thanks to the editors' inclusion of theoretical perspectives ranging from the mainstream to institutional and evolutionary economic theory, complex adaptive systems theory, and critical political economy. . . Readers will gain insight into the limitations of the questions that are asked within different economic traditions, but importantly, also into what can be revealed by these theories and empirical methods. Media and communication scholars, not just those with an interest in media economics, will come away from engagement with this handbook with a good understanding of the assumptions underpinning the contributions economists are making to contemporary debate about the consequences of the continuous evolution of digitally mediated markets.' --European Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Economics of the Internet: An Overview Johannes M. Bauer and Michael Latzer PART II THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 2. The Industrial Organization of the Internet Günter Knieps and Johannes M. Bauer 3. The Internet as a Complex Layered System Stephen J. Schultze and Richard S. Whitt 4. A Network Science Approach to the Internet Volker Schneider and Johannes M. Bauer 5. Peer Production and Cooperation Yochai Benkler 6. The Internet and Productivity Carol Corrado and Bart Van Ark 7. Cultural Economics and the Internet Christian Handke, Paul Stepan and Ruth Towse 8. A Political Economy Approach to the Internet Patricia Mazepa and Vincent Mosco PART II INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AND INTERNET ARCHITECTURE 9. Competition and Antitrust in Internet Markets Justus Haucap and Torben Stühmeier 10. The Economics of Internet Standards Stanley M. Besen and George Sadowsky 11. The Economics of Copyright and the Internet Sacha Wunsch-Vincent 12. The Economics of Privacy, Data Protection and Surveillance Ian Brown 13. Economics of Cybersecurity Hadi Asghari, Michel Van Eeten and Johannes M. Bauer 14. Internet Architecture and Innovation in Applications Barbara Van Schewick 15. Organizational Innovations, ICTs and Knowledge Governance: The Case of Platforms Cristiano Antonelli and Pier Paolo Patrucco 16. Interconnection in the Internet: Peering, Interoperability and Content Delivery David D. Clark, William H. Lehr and Steven Bauer PART III ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES 17. Internet Business Strategies Johann J. Kranz and Arnold Picot 18. The Economics of Internet Search Hal R. Varian 19. The Economics of Algorithmic Selection on the Internet Michael Latzer, Katharina Hollnbuchner, Natascha Just and Florian Saurwein 20. Online Advertising Economics Wenjuan Ma and Steven S. Wildman 21. Online News Lucy Küng, Nic Newman and Robert G. Picard 22. The Economics of Online Video Entertainment Ryland Sherman and David Waterman 23. Business Strategies and Revenue Models for Converged Video Services Yu-Li Liu 24. The Economics of Virtual Worlds Isaac Knowles and Edward Castronova 25. Economics of Big Data Claudio Feijóo, José-Luis Gómez-Barroso and Shivom Aggarwal PART IV PAST AND FUTURE TRAJECTORIES 26. The Evolution of the Internet: A Socioeconomic Account D. Linda Garcia 27. From the Internet of Science to the Internet of Entertainment Eli M. Noam Index

Read more less

Book Synopsis'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented. She had her first blog at twelve, a successful music website at fifteen, a Wikipedia page at seventeen and now, at thirty, over 80,000 followers on Twitter. From MSN, Tumblr and MySpace, to chat rooms, forums and blogs; Marie is part of the millennial generation that grew up while the internet was growing up with them.Where did it go all wrong? How did the internet go from a place where you went to escape real life to where real life is shaped? A place where you could be yourself and find like-minded people to a world of filters and ads? A place we are all now desperately trying to escape from?Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the platforms, the people and the online places. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, how the internet has changed us - and a celebration of the tools it gives us to feel less alone. The online generation have forever altered the world we live in, but is the internet still a place for the people that shaped it?Trade Review'Marie Le Conte is one of the most compelling thinkers we have on the internet age and what it's doing to us. She's truly lived it, and her scars are memorably and fascinatingly described in Escape.' -- WILL STORR'A great dissection of how the internet fundamentally messed up the generations.' -- MOLLIE GOODFELLOW'A sharply intelligent, funny and necessary look at how the internet is affecting us all. Whether you're extremely online or hate Twitter (or both), this is a fascinating read.' -- STEVIE MARTIN'Marie Le Conte is the voice of the generation. Escape is exposing, enthralling and deeply personal reading for all of us who grew up online. Capturing the joy and pain of teenage angst against the freedom and horror of the World Wide Web, this book is urgent reading for anyone trying to understand their own past, and the internet's future.' -- FERN RIDDELL'An enjoyable book that hits on an interesting question.' * Financial Times *'A thoughtful book' * New Scientist *'[Escape] reads like a long and clever email from a friend' * The Canberra Times *'Escape is a smart and funny analysis of a very modern phenomenon.' * New Humanist *

Read more less

Book SynopsisJournalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was made publicly available. She had her first blog at 12, a successful music website at 16 and, at 31, has just under 100,000 followers on Twitter. She spent her formative years on MSN, MySpace, Tumblr and forums; like many people her age, she grew up online as the internet itself was growing up. It was a joy until it wasn't - where did it all go wrong?How did the internet go from a haven you hid in to escape real life to a place where real life is shaped? A space where you could be yourself and find like-minded people to a world sullied by bad algorithms, annoying brands and endless trolling? When did it become the place we're all trying to run away from?Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the people and platforms that came and went before everything started collapsing. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, and a celebration of the tools it gave us to feel less alone.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe Tactile Internet will change the landscape of communication by introducing a new paradigm that enables the remote delivery of haptic data.This book answers the many questions surrounding the Tactile Internet, including its reference architecture and adapted compression methods for conveying haptic information. It also describes the key enablers for deploying the applications of the Tactile Internet.As an antecedent technology, the IoT is tackled, explaining the differences and similarities between the Tactile Internet, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Everything. The essentials of teleoperation systems are summarized and the challenges that face this paradigm in its implementation and deployment are also discussed.Finally, a teleoperation case study demonstrating an application of the Tactile Internet is investigated to demonstrate its functionalities, architecture and performance.Table of ContentsForeword xi Ian F. Akyildiz Preface xiii Tara Ali-Yahiya and Wrya Monnet List of Acronyms xv Chapter 1 Introduction to Tactile Internet 1 Tara Ali-Yahiya 1. 1. Human perception and Tactile Internet 2 1. 2. The roadmap towards Tactile Internet 3 1. 3. What is Tactile Internet? 5 1. 4. Cyber-Physical Systems and TI 7 1. 4. 1. Physical world 7 1. 4. 2. Internet of Things 7 1. 4. 3. Communication 7 1. 4. 4. Storage and computation 8 1. 4. 5. Feedback 8 1. 4. 6. Smart computing 10 1. 5. References 11 Chapter 2 Reference Architecture of the Tactile Internet 13 Tara Ali-Yahiya 2. 1. Tactile Internet system architecture 13 2. 2. IEEE 1918. 1 use cases 15 2. 2. 1. Teleoperation 16 2. 2. 2. Automotive 17 2. 2. 3. Immersive virtual reality (IVR) 17 2. 2. 4. Internet of drones 18 2. 2. 5. Inter personal communication 18 2. 2. 6. Live haptic-enabled broadcast 19 2. 2. 7. Cooperative automated driving 19 2. 3. Conclusion 20 2. 4. References 20 Chapter 3 Tactile Internet Key Enablers 21 Tara Ali-Yahiya 3. 1. Introduction 21 3. 1. 1. The fifth-generation system architecture 21 3. 1. 2. Network slicing 23 3. 1. 3. Network function virtualization 25 3. 1. 4. Software-defined networking 26 3. 1. 5. Edge computing 27 3. 1. 6. Artificial intelligence 29 3. 2. Conclusion 31 3. 3. References 31 Chapter 4 6G for Tactile Internet 35 Pinar Kirci and Tara Ali-Yahiya 4. 1. Introduction 35 4. 2. Thearchitectureof6G 37 4. 2. 1. Networkperformanceof6G 38 4. 2. 2. Space network 39 4. 2. 3. Air network 40 4. 2. 4. Ground network 40 4. 2. 5. Underwater network 41 4. 3. 6G channel measurements and characteristics 41 4. 3. 1. Optical wireless channel 41 4. 3. 2. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) channel 42 4. 3. 3. Underwater acoustic channel 43 4. 3. 4. Satellite channel 43 4. 3. 5. RFandterahertznetworksin6G 45 4. 3. 6. Visible light communication technology 48 4. 3. 7. Orbital angular momentum technology 48 4. 4. 6GcellularInternetofThings 49 4. 5. Energy self-sustainability (ESS) in 6G 50 4. 6. IoT-integrated ultra smart city life 52 4. 7. AI-enabled6Gnetworks 55 4. 8. AI- and ML-based security management in super IoT 59 4. 9. Securityfor6G 60 4. 10. The WEAFMnecosystem (water, earth, air, fire micro/nanoecosystem) with 6G and Tactile Internet 61 4. 11. References 63 Chapter 5 IoT, IoE and Tactile Internet 65 Wrya Monnet 5. 1. From M2MtoIoT 66 5. 2. Classification of remote monitoring and control systems 66 5. 3. IoT-enabling technologies 67 5. 3. 1. IoT hardware 67 5. 3. 2. IoT software 67 5. 3. 3. IoT connectivity 67 5. 4. Architectural design and interfaces 68 5. 5. IoT communication protocols 71 5. 5. 1. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) 72 5. 5. 2. Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) 74 5. 5. 3. Data Distribution Service for real-time systems (DDS) 76 5. 5. 4. Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA-DM) 79 5. 6. Internet of Everything (IoE) 80 5. 6. 1. Enabling technologies for the IoE 81 5. 7. Protocol comparisons and the readiness for TI 82 5. 8. TI-IoT models and challenges 83 5. 9. Edge computing in the IoT 85 5. 9. 1. Edge computing paradigms 86 5. 10. Real-time IoT and analytics versus real time in TI 88 5. 11. From IoT towardsTI 88 5. 12. Conclusion 90 5. 13. References 91 Chapter 6 Telerobotics 95 Wrya Monnet 6. 1. Introduction 95 6. 2. Teleoperation evolution to telepresence 96 6. 3. Tele presence applications 97 6. 4. Teleoperation system components 99 6. 4. 1. Master domains 102 6. 4. 2. Network domain (communication channel) 102 6. 4. 3. Slave domain 102 6. 5. Architecture of bilateral teleoperation control system 103 6. 5. 1. Classification of the control systems architectures 106 6. 5. 2. Discrete architecture with transmission delay 107 6. 6. Performance and transparency of telepresence systems 110 6. 6. 1. Passivity and stability 110 6. 6. 2. Time delay issues 112 6. 7. Other methods for time-delay mitigation 116 6. 8. Teleoperation over the Internet 117 6. 9. Multiple access to a teleoperation system 119 6. 10. A use case 121 6. 11. Conclusion 122 6. 12. References 122 Chapter 7 Haptic Data: Compression and Transmission Protocols 127 Wrya Monnet 7. 1. Introduction 127 7. 2. Haptic perception 128 7. 2. 1. Human haptic perception 128 7. 2. 2. Telerobotic tactile and haptic perception 128 7. 2. 3. Tactile sensing for material recognition 129 7. 2. 4. Tactile sensing for object shape recognition 130 7. 2. 5. Tactile sensing for pose estimation 131 7. 3. Haptic interfaces 133 7. 3. 1. Haptic interface for tele presence 133 7. 3. 2. Haptic and tactile sensors and actuators 135 7. 4. Haptic compression 139 7. 5. Haptic transport protocols 142 7. 5. 1. Application layer protocols 143 7. 5. 2. Transport layer protocols 146 7. 6. Multi-transport protocols 149 7. 7. Haptic transport protocol performance metrics 149 7. 8. Conclusion 150 7. 9. References 150 Chapter 8 Mapping Wireless Networked Robotics into Tactile Internet 155 Nicola Roberto Zema and Tara Ali-Yahiya 8. 1. Wireless networked robots 155 8. 2. WNR traffic requisites 158 8. 2. 1. Types of traffic in WNRs 158 8. 3. Traffic shaping and TI haptic codecs 160 8. 3. 1. Introduction 161 8. 3. 2. Mapping WNR control traffic to TI 161 8. 4. WNRs in the Tactile Internet architecture 164 8. 4. 1. WNRs in the TI architecture and interfaces 165 8. 5. Conclusion 169 8. 6. References 170 Chapter 9 HoIP over 5G for Tactile Internet Teleoperation Application 173 Tara Ali-Yahiya, Wryamonnet and Bakhtiar M. Amin 9. 1. Relatedworks 174 9. 2. 5G architecture design for Tactile Internet 179 9. 2. 1. Tactile edge A 180 9. 2. 2. Network domain 182 9. 2. 3. Protocol stack of 5G integration with IEEE 1918. 1 182 9. 3. HapticsoverIP 183 9. 4. Teleoperationcasestudy 185 9. 4. 1. Master to slave (uplink) data rate in edge A 187 9. 4. 2. Slave to master (downlink) data rate in edge B 187 9. 4. 3. Encapsulating the haptic data in HoIP 188 9. 4. 4. 5G network data and control handling 188 9. 4. 5. Case study operational states 190 9. 4. 6. Case study protocol stack 191 9. 5. Simulationresults 192 9. 5. 1. Simulation topology 193 9. 5. 2. NS3networkarchitecture 194 9. 5. 3. Simulation scenario 196 9. 5. 4. Simulation results 198 9. 6. Conclusion 203 9. 7. References 203 Chapter 10 Issues and Challenges Facing Low Latency in the Tactile Internet 209 Tara Ali-Yahiya 10. 1. Introduction 209 10. 1. 1. Technical requirements for the TI 211 10. 2. Low latency in the Tactile Internet 212 10. 2. 1. Resource allocation 212 10. 2. 2. Mobile edge computing 213 10. 2. 3. Network coding 214 10. 2. 4. Haptic communication protocols 214 10. 3. Intelligence and the Tactile Internet 216 10. 4. Edge intelligent 216 10. 5. Openissues 219 10. 6. Conclusion 220 10. 7. References 221 List of Authors 227 Index 229

Read more less

Book SynopsisDeveloping countries are persistently looking for efficient and cost-effective methods for transforming their communities into smart cities. Unfortunately, energy crises have increased in these regions due to a lack of awareness and proper utilization of technological methods. These communities must explore and implement innovative solutions in order to enhance citizen enrollment, quality of government, and city intelligence.IoT Architectures, Models, and Platforms for Smart City Applications provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of transforming cities into intelligent systems using IoT-based design models and sustainable development projects. This publication looks at how cities can be built as smart cities within limited resources and existing advanced technologies. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cloud computing, human machine interface, and ad hoc networks, this book is ideally designed for urban planners, engineers, IT specialists, computer engineering students, research scientists, academicians, technology developers, policymakers, researchers, and designers seeking current research on smart applications within urban development.

Read more less

Book SynopsisFor the past couple of years, network automation techniques that include software-defined networking (SDN) and dynamic resource allocation schemes have been the subject of a significant research and development effort. Likewise, network functions virtualization (NFV) and the foreseeable usage of a set of artificial intelligence techniques to facilitate the processing of customers' requirements and the subsequent design, delivery, and operation of the corresponding services are very likely to dramatically distort the conception and the management of networking infrastructures. Some of these techniques are being specified within standards developing organizations while others remain perceived as a "buzz" without any concrete deployment plans disclosed by service providers. An in-depth understanding and analysis of these approaches should be conducted to help internet players in making appropriate design choices that would meet their requirements as well as their customers. This is an important area of research as these new developments and approaches will inevitably reshape the internet and the future of technology. Design Innovation and Network Architecture for the Future Internet sheds light on the foreseeable yet dramatic evolution of internet design principles and offers a comprehensive overview on the recent advances in networking techniques that are likely to shape the future internet. The chapters provide a rigorous in-depth analysis of the promises, pitfalls, and other challenges raised by these initiatives, while avoiding any speculation on their expected outcomes and technical benefits. This book covers essential topics such as content delivery networks, network functions virtualization, security, cloud computing, automation, and more. This book will be useful for network engineers, software designers, computer networking professionals, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students looking for a comprehensive research book on the latest advancements in internet design principles and networking techniques.

Read more less

Book SynopsisTowards a Digital Renaissance traces the excitement and optimism of the early internet, the outsider cyberpunk ethic and open access. But it also monitors the more complex but ultimately more commercialised online world of today, a world dominated by corporate business in which many feel that surveillance has become overwhelming. Jeremy Silver's involvement in various start-ups, both as CEO and investor, led to his leadership of Digital Catapult. Towards a Digital Renaissance examines the interplay between state and private financing in the digital sector. It also argues for the internet's potential to transition from a 'medieval' world of the GAFA big four (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple), closed and walled up like medieval city states, to a 'digital renaissance' based on the free exchange of ideas and an enabling metaverse made up of virtual reality and artificial intelligence that deepens our experience of reality rather than restricting or monitoring it.Trade ReviewFor the past decade, the hype surrounding VR and AR technology has waxed and waned, but Jeremy Silver has been constant, a force of nature in this space. Some people just talk about technology, but Jeremy is in the trenches, and deeply understands everything ranging from how to fund a start-up to how to troubleshoot hardware. This book brilliantly tells a story about the metaverse growing up, and how Jeremy helped along the way. * Jeremy Bailenson, founding director at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab *

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis book contains an Open Access chapter The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies and society globally. In addressing the crisis, the Internet proved incredibly important in enabling many to shift physical work, education, and social activities online and facilitating the tracking of the progress of the pandemic. Beyond the Pandemic? is the first edited collection to concentrate on the dynamic and complex relationship between the Internet and the role it played in responding to the pandemic. Covid-19 accelerated the digital economy transformation, changing the way work, education, and social engagement is organized, potentially permanently. The collection of international scholars who contributed to this volume offer insightful perspectives on how the Internet ecosystem responded and was changed as a consequence of Covid-19; the sectoral consequences of shifting activity online that the Internet enabled for many, but not for all; and the implications for regulatory policies. Given how central digital technologies are to all aspects of business, society, and government, Beyond the Pandemic? is integral to the exploration of the sectoral consequences of the Internet for business managers, policymakers and researchers engaged in planning and study for the digital economy future and planning for future pandemics.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction; Jason Whalley, Volker Stocker, and William Lehr Chapter 2. Covid-19 and the Internet: Lessons Learned; Volker Stocker, William Lehr, and Georgios Smaragdakis OPEN ACCESS Chapter 3. Covid-19 and the Shift to Remote Work; Scott Marcus Chapter 4. Digital Transformation of Educational Institutions Accelerated by Covid-19: A Digital Dynamic Capabilities Approach; André Renz and Romy Hilbig Chapter 5. The Smart City and Covid-19; William Webb Chapter 6. How Covid Accelerated the Restructuring of UK Retail; Jason Whalley and Peter Curwen Chapter 7. Regulatory and Broadband Industry Responses to Covid-19: Cases of Uganda, Peru and the Caribbean; Mark Jamison, Dorothy Okello, Roxana Barrantes, and David Cox Chapter 8. Beyond the Pandemic? Exploring the Impact of Covid on Spectrum Use and Management; Mohamed El-Moghazi Chapter 9. Net Neutrality in the USA During Covid-19; Roslyn Layton and Mark Jamison Chapter 10. Trends in Cybercrime During the Covid-19 Pandemic; Josephine Wolff Chapter 11. Pandemics and Infodemics: How Covid-19 is Reshaping Content Regulation; Tatiana Tropina Chapter 12. Beyond the Pandemic: Towards a Digitally Enabled Society and Economy; Volker Stocker, Jason Whalley, and William Lehr

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe current crisis of democracy, the growing economic inequality between rich and poor, our narcissistic social media culture and the looming menace of AI all threaten us as never before. The challenges presented by technology have long been central in these issues, but how can we take advantage of the opportunities it provides to shape a better twenty-first century? The most important division of our age is between the 'tomorrows', those who believe that the future can be better than the past, and the 'yesterdays' who harbor a nostalgic desire to return to a rose-tinted past. This division is encapsulated by how we answer a simple question: can we trust the future? In Tomorrows Versus Yesterdays, Andrew Keen discusses the issue with some of the most influential thinkers of our time. The book is split into four sections. The first identifies the challenges of our digital age. The second focuses on the failure of the internet revolution to realize its ambitious goals. The third untangles the complex relationship between populism and digital media, before the final part presents possible solutions to the challenges of our age. The result is an insightful examination of the most important issues facing us today, and essential reading for anyone interested in the impact of the digital revolution.Table of Contents1: Shoshana Zuboff 2: John Borthwick 3: Maria Ressa 4: Rana Foroohar 5: David Kirkpatrick 6: Douglas Rushkoff 7: Eli Pariser 8: Kenneth Cukier 9: Peter Sunde 10: Peter Pomerantsev 11: Ece Temelkuran 12: Catherine Fieschi 13: Ian Bremmer 14: Martin Wolf 15: Richard Stengel 16: Carl Benedikt Frey 17: Toomas Ilves 18: Scott Galloway

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis book discusses the media, beliefs, the news, the Internet, etc. but it should not be seen as yet another critique of the media system, exploring with indignant fascination the idea of a machination against truth set up to serve a society of domination. These kinds of theories, whether they pertain to conspiracy theories or, more subtly, to a self-styled "critical" way of thinking, have always seemed to be the expression of a form of intellectual puerility. This is not to say that attempts at manipulating opinions do not occur, or that our world is free from compromised principles, or indeed corruption; far from it, but none of this is the key issue. In fact, reality can somehow be even more unsettling than those myths, however sophisticated they may be, that envisage the media system hand-in-hand with industry, science, and so forth, all in agreement so as to lead the "people" away from the truth. It is more unsettling because the processes described in this book and that allow falsehood and dubiousness to take hold of the public sphere are boosted by the development of IT, the workings of our minds, and the very nature of democracy. And finally, it is more unsettling because we are all responsible for what is going to happen to us.Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction ix Chapter 1. More is Less: Mental Avarice and Mass Information 1 1.1. The revolution of the cognitive market 1 1.2. Amplification of the confirmation bias 6 1.3. The Seattle affair 9 1.3.1. The Wason experiment 10 1.4. The theorem of information credulity 14 1.5. Filter bubbles 17 Chapter 2. Why Does the Internet Side with Dubious Ideas? 19 2.1. The utopia of the knowledge society and the empire of beliefs 19 2.2. The ditherer’s problem 20 2.3. Competition between belief and knowledge on the Internet 23 2.4. Psychokinesis 27 2.5. The Loch Ness Monster 27 2.6. Aspartame 28 2.7. Crop circles 28 2.8. Astrology 29 2.9. Overview of resutls 30 2.10. How can we explain these results? 30 2.11. The Titanic syndrome 31 2.12. When Olson’s paradox plays against knowledge 34 2.13. Charles Fort, his life, and his works in a few words 36 2.14. Fort products: argumentative mille-feuilles 38 2.15. The sharing of the arguments of conviction 40 2.16. A Fortean product in the making: Michael Jackson’s fake death 42 2.17. When Fort reinforces Olson 44 2.18. Would you believe it! 46 2.19. It is all in the Bible, all of it 49 2.20. The transparency paradox 52 2.21. A shorter incubation period 56 Chapter 3. Competition Serves the Truth, Excessive Competition Harms It 61 3.1. Michael Jackson’s son, abused by Nicolas Sarkozy 61 3.2. A “prisoner’s dilemma” kind of situation 63 3.3. Presidential unfaithfulness and the burnt Koran 66 3.4. The IRC curve (information reliability/competition) 72 Chapter 4. What Can Be Done? From the Democracy of the Gullible to the Democracy of Enlightenment 77 4.1. The hope of the astrophysicist 77 4.2. The bad education 80 4.3. When gullibility looks like intelligence 83 4.4. The sum of imperfections 88 4.5. Toward cognitive demagogy 93 4.6. How to keep the illusion scholar inside us in check 96 4.7. Declaration of mental independence 98 4.8. The fourth power 102 4.9. A new form of scientific communication 104 4.10. A new militancy 106 Conclusion 109 Bibliography 111 Index 121

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe Internet is behaving in a way that is affecting everything we do. And it is making us think about things in a way we never previously thought. The Internet is contrary and the opposite of previous inventions. It has enhanced a reverse polarity of discovery in which seeking to know more about what and who we already know (think Facebook, Twitter, Google) is now just as valid as learning new things. This is the "implosion" that this book examines and the great impact it will have on society and business. The creation of the Internet, the most significant for many generations, is driving culture inwards instead of outwards (like many of history's other prestigious cultural innovations). It is an implosive force, annihilating and creating simultaneously. And it will change forever the way society and business communicates. This book offers a controversial insight into where we are heading in the age of the Web.Table of Contents1.What Happened? 2.First Let's Eat 3.Now It's Time For Coffee 4.The Medium is the Mess 5.Streaming Screenagers 6.Socialism, Socialising and Being Social 7.Being Present 8.New Order

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe realm of the "personal" is now increasingly touched by technology - especially the Internet. For example, sleep is now something we do in between checking our smartphones. Our relationship to food and eating has changed too. Home delivery, restaurant search, table bookings - these have all been elevated to a high level skill-set which is part-entertainment, part-electronic processing. And travel is now a finger-clicking exercise with precision timing. This readjustment of our daily routine has had one significant effect: it has taught individuals a range of skills that would normally be in the domain of businesses. Ordinary people now behave as businesses do by using buying strategies to get costs down. We now have expectations of quality and delivery. In fact, we have become so business-like as individuals that marketers need to get rid of the processes of "Business-to-Consumer" communication, and begin to adopt the rules of "Business-to-Business" when talking to consumers. Such change of our lives is an explosion of the new - new thinking, new business, new relationships, new selling, new buying, new leisure, new humans.

Read more less

Book SynopsisFOREWORD BY DON TAPSCOTT CEO of the Tapscott Group, executive chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute, and world-leading authority on the impact of technology on business and society. The Internet is now, but the future is the metaverse. The metaverse is a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and others. The prediction is that the next ten years will be the golden era of the metaverse, and everyone's life, entertainment, social interaction, and work will increasingly take place in the metaverse world. This book outlines six important trends in the era of the metaverse, that will see dramatic changes in technology and the bringing together of digital and physical worlds. People will experience a great migration of their social life and economic activities into the metaverse. Furthermore, the authors argue that, in the metaverse, we can get rid of many of the constraints of the physical world, achieve a better self in the new digital space, and truly maximize our own value as human beings. This book sets out how you can seize the opportunity of the metaverse era.

Read more less

Book SynopsisChina's economic rise and influence has been one of the most significant developments in the global economy of recent times. A driving force behind this expansion has been the private entrepreneurs and companies of China, some of which have literally redefined the economic and business landscape, both inside and outside of China. In 2000, Robin (Yanhong) Li founded Baidu and turned the company into the largest Chinese search engine (with over 80% market share by search query) and the world's second largest search engine. In 2005, Baidu completed its IPO on NASDAQ, and in 2007 became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 Index. This book is the story of the rise of Robin Li and Baidu, which is integral to the story of China's vast internet economy.

Read more less

Book SynopsisWhy has the digital revolution been damaging for so many women? And what can be done about it? The Threat explores today's digital capitalism through the prism of the women who are harmed by it globally. Some of them are victimised through digital devices. Others are exploited while producing them. And some don't even have access to the Internet, but are brutally raped in wars funded by the minerals that make our tablets work. With the help of individuals' stories and interviews, activist and academic Dr Lilia Giugni explores how millions of women across the world are violated, exploited and marginalised due to processes of technological change. She unpacks the tight intersections between technology, patriarchy and capitalism - exposing the profit-driven market in which our digital devices are designed and built, and the patriarchal society that shapes who gets to use them and how. Above all, Lilia Giugni gives us very practical ideas to help us take back the tech: turning technology into a truly emancipatory force and a leverage to create a better and more just future for women and for all. 'A brilliant and engaging expose of how the forces of capitalism and patriarchy penetrate our digital world - and what women can do to fight back.' Hannah Jewell, author of 100 Nasty Women of History

Read more less

Book SynopsisTechnology can help us with some of our most difficult work. It can also offer us endless distractions. Can technology help us, as individuals and communities, in our most important task, that of being a good person?Jon Mitchell sets out to identify and explore the ways in which we can develop a more thoughtful relationship with technology. Rather than only using our technological devices as a medium for connecting with the world, he recommends we rethink our relationship with technology, and see it as a resource that allows us to have a more intimate and personal relationship with ourselves and the world around us. Mitchell offers concrete practices for streamlining and improving the way we use technology in our daily lives.Writing in a relatable, conversational, easy-to-read style, Mitchell draws on his years of experience as a tech journalist and mindfulness practitioner to propose a rethinking of both the design of technology and its use.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media. Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into.Trade Review‘His excellent chapter entitled ‘We are all liars’ is thoughtful and convincing about the spreading of fake news.’ https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/web-of-deceit-disinformation-could-prove-the-most-powerful-weapon-of-all/ -- Daniel Hahn * The Spectator *Book of the Week ‘The book is a thrilling demonstration of what such resistance can look like, by one of the most clear-sighted and unyielding critics writing today. We should all read it.’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/08/the-twittering-machine-richard-seymour-review-social-media-dystopia -- Will Davies * The Guardian *Book of the Week ‘Time spent online is time deducted from our lives, just as taking a selfie is an excuse to not be yourself . . . if you really want to set yourself free, you should read a book – preferably this one.’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/11/the-twittering-machine-richard-seymour-review-social-media-industry -- Peter Conrad * The Observer *‘Why can’t we just quit Twitter?’ – mention of The Twittering Machine https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2019/08/why-can-t-we-just-quit-twitter -- Sarah Manavis * New Statesman *‘Taking in every sort of online nastiness, from trolling to alt-right subcultures to ‘fake news’, Seymour’s compulsively argued book may just be the intervention we all need.’ https://www.tatler.com/gallery/the-best-late-summer-reads -- Francesca Carington * Taler *‘The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media’, extract from The Twittering Machine https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/social-media-addiction-gambling -- Richard Seymour * The Guardian Long Read *‘an unflinching look at our toxic relationship with grim yet compelling social media’ https://www.ft.com/content/d18e41d2-c3ff-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9?fbclid=IwAR1HFCxo-07RFlL69E3ZrT0RKjixhvD147GBMlH_jw8oaxmqqrAk-HW0hL0 -- Emma Jacobs * Financial Times *'Books in the Media' ‘Critics have acclaimed Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine (Indigo), a polemic against the rising tide of social media, as “thrilling”, “unflinching” and “excoriating”’ https://booksinthemedia.thebookseller.com/articles/reviewers-click-like-on-the-twittering-machine * The Bookseller *‘his superb new book . . . treads between acute biting psychological analysis and an account of how that form of psychology has been set in place materially, historically.’ http://socialistresistance.org/left-hooked-on-twitter/18134?fbclid=IwAR0SNzqjqjGUdp0DWLpFilnt8r6ekVBLytZSg2-N4DS-Zy1sdzTqpAresJc -- Ian Parker * Socialist Resistance *‘The Twittering Machine is a book that not only gets to the heart of social media’s deficits but is a joy to read.’ https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/04/the-politics-of-trolling/ -- Louis Proyect * Counter Punch *‘We ae living through something unprecedented. An open-ended social experiment funded by venture capitalism, supported bv the US military and security state. An industrialised system of writing. We’re writing more than ever before in human history. This is the basis for the world’s most profitable industry: the social industry.’ https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5516/willing-servants -- Richard Seymour * New Humanist *‘a digest of the burgeoning literature addressing the dangers of being online’ http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2019/11/the-great-escape/ -- Jon Baglow * The Literary Review of Canada *‘yields an abundance of quotable insights’ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/dont-us/ -- David Streitfeld * The Times Literary Supplement *‘However clever, snarky or “fierce” our replies may be, we all know we’re helping to spread the very messages we want to discredit’ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/28/right-trolling-posts-political-opponents -- Richard Seymour * The Guardian *‘Social media platforms did not create our crisis. They have only stumbled on a way to profit from accelerating it, while magnifying some of our worst tendencies. The toxicity is not just in our tweets, but in ourselves.’ https://www.ft.com/content/abc86766-fa37-11e9-a354-36acbbb0d9b6 -- Richard Seymour * Financial Times *‘We are all authors. This is the argument that threads its way through Richard Seymour’s brilliant new book … a must read’ https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/browser-an-absorbing-short-story-collection-mixing-realism-fantasy-and-folktale-1.4072162 -- David Capener * The Irish Times *‘Best books of the year 2019’ ‘Richard Seymour’s political writing is essential reading; his The Twittering Machine (Indigo Press) goes beyond moral panic about technology to map new terrain for understanding “screen capitalism”, its violence and our desires’ https://www.newstatesman.com/best-books-this-year-2019 -- Katrina Forrester * New Statesman *‘This is an extended theoretical reflection on the advent, impact and power of social media in our daily lives – a serious and excellent read.’ https://www.rs21.org.uk/2019/11/16/review-the-twittering-machine/ -- Mark Murphy * Rs21 *‘the often dark and nasty aspect of online storms suggests that they can go horribly awry. It is this, rather than the Twitter revolution, that is the true future of global protests.’ https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2019/11/we-are-witnessing-end-twitter-revolution -- Richard Seymour * New Statesman *‘Not only extends and improves Adorno’s arguments, but takes insights from elsewhere to show the nightmares of the past 50 (plus) years of left thought are coming to fruition’ https://medium.com/@RT_Editing/utopia-dystopia-online-capitalism-300c16bd9376 -- Rowan Fortune * Medium *‘the author’s fluid prose weaves searing philippics against social media into an unwaveringly clear and perceptive argument, combining the spontaneous energy of a blog-post with a rigorous intellectual framework’ https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/mind-forged-manacles -- Oliver Eagleton * New Left Review *‘PTO Books of the year’ ‘he advances a Lacanian reading that emphasises the curious absence of pleasure in our engagement with the ‘Twittering Machine’, which disrupts and forecloses all other desires that we might otherwise pursue.’ https://www.patreon.com/posts/32774027 * Politics Theory Order * Interview with Richard Seymour https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/01/the-twittering-machine * Tribune *‘The Twittering Machine is undoubtedly a crucial and compelling read in the landscape of technology and society’ https://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2020/01/opting-out-digital-serfdom -- Cristina D’Amico * Rabble *Woke Biden Cabinet, Indian Strikes, & Social Media Industry w/ Richard Seymour Woke Biden Cabinet, Indian Strikes, & Social Media Industry w/ Richard Seymour | Weekends (12/12/20) * Jacobin Weekends *‘Books of the Year’ Richard Seymour’s THE TWITTERING MACHINE (Indigo Press, 2019) was a satisfyingly nuanced account of the terrible bind we’re in, in relation to social media.’ – Katherine Angel https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/books-of-the-year-3/ * The White Review *

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques and related issues that are of particular interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. It is primarily intended for postgraduate students, postdocs, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to deepen their knowledge. As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school were given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers. The broad theme of this year's summer school was “Reasoning in Probabilistic Models and Machine Learning” and it covered various aspects of ontological reasoning and related issues that are of particular interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. The following eight lectures were presented during the school: Logic-Based Explainability in Machine Learning; Causal Explanations and Fairness in Data; Statistical Relational Extensions of Answer Set Programming; Vadalog: Its Extensions and Business Applications; Cross-Modal Knowledge Discovery, Inference, and Challenges; Reasoning with Tractable Probabilistic Circuits; From Statistical Relational to Neural Symbolic Artificial Intelligence; Building Intelligent Data Apps in Rel using Reasoning and Probabilistic Modelling.Table of ContentsExplainability in Machine Learning.- Causal Explanations and Fairness in Data.- Statistical Relational Extensions of Answer Set Programming.- Vadalog: Its Extensions and Business Applications.- Cross-Modal Knowledge Discovery, Inference, and Challenges.- Reasoning with Tractable Probabilistic Circuits.- From Statistical Relational to Neural Symbolic Artificial Intelligence.- Building Intelligent Data Apps in Rel using Reasoning and Probabilistic Modelling.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis book offers a comparative perspective on the technological, economic, and political aspects of Internet development in the post-Soviet countries. In doing so, international experts analyze similarities and differences in various countries throughout the chapters.The volume consists of two parts. The chapters of the first part examine the post-Soviet area as a whole. The second part includes specific case studies on the development of the Internet, either in individual countries or in groups of countries. Countries analyzed are Estonia, Ukraine, Russia as well as three Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Topics covered in the volume include, but are not limited to measurement, dynamics, and structure of each national Internet audience; the history of the Internet in the post-Soviet countries; development of infrastructure; Internet regulation and institutional aspects; online markets such as telecommunications, online advertising, e-commerce, and digital content; social and cultural aspects; as well as the transformation of the national media systems. This book is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars of political science and economics, as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of Internet development in the post-Soviet area. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- PART 1. CHARACTERIZING THE POST-SOVIET INTERNET.- 2.Representation of the Post-Soviet Countries in the Global Online Information Space in 2020-2021: Frequency of Mention, Media Dynamics, Mood Characteristics.- 3. Legal Regulation of the Internet around Post-Soviet Space.- 4. Cancel Culture and Novaya Etika in Russian Public Discourse.- 5. Online coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Izoizolyacia flash mob.- PART 2. POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES: SPECIAL FOCUS.- 6. Developing an Advanced Digital Society: An Estonian Case Study.- 7. Uanet through Socio-Political Perspectives.- 8. Media Generations of the Russians in the Digital Media Environment: Opportunities for Intergenerational Communication.- 9. Elite Students in Kazakhstan: Complexities of the Internet and the International Arena.- 10. Measuring Media Literacy Level: A Case of Central Asia

Read more less

Book SynopsisDu bist kreativ und tummelst dich gerne im Internet? Wusstest du, dass du mit wenigen Klicks deine eigene Homepage erstellen und designen kannst? Wenn du ein Lieblingsessen oder -gedicht hast, kannst du es so mit der ganzen Welt teilen. Oder möchtest du deinen eigenen Stundenplan immer einsehen können? Dann gestalte ihn blitzschnell und setze ihn auf deine Webseite. In diesem Buch lernst du, wie du in wenigen Schritten zu deiner eigenen Homepage kommst und was du dabei hinsichtlich Urheberrechten, Bild- und Farbzusammenstellung beachten musst. Du wirst lernen, wie man mit HTML und CSS Objekte animiert und 3D-Effekte erzeugt. Deiner Kreativität sind keine Grenzen gesetzt. Dieses Buch ist bestens geeignet für Kinder und Jugendliche ab 10 Jahre. Einen wichtigen Hinweis zum verwendeten Editor findest du auf der Webseite des Buchs.Trade Review"... In diesem Buch lernt der Leser, wie man in wenigen Schritten zu seiner eigenen Homepage kommt und was man hinsichtlich Urheberrecht ... beachten muß." (Wochenanzeiger Neumarkt im Oktober 2018)Table of ContentsEinführung 7 Hallo, zukünftige Webdesigner! 7 Über dieses Buch 7 Über dich 8 Über die Symbole, die wir in diesem Buch verwenden 9 Los geht’s! 10 Kapitel 1: Auf die Plätze 11 Erste Schritte mit HTML 11 Bausteine eines HTML-Dokuments 12 Was ist ein Tag? 12 Tags verschachteln 12 Die erste Webseite erstellen 13 Ein Icon für den Browser-Tab 15 Bereiche im 16 Mobile Geräte unterstützen 17 Mit CSS wird es bunt 18 CSS-Dokument einbinden 19 HTML-Elemente formatieren 19 Das Box-Modell 22 Das richtige Werkzeug 23 Start mit Brackets 24 Browser-Support ist Ansichtssache 27 Code 28 Kapitel 2: Das erste Mahl 30 Vorbereitung 30 Die Überschrift 31 Lege einen Hintergrund fest 33 Formatiere die Überschrift` 34 Der Zutatenzettel 36 Style deinen Zutatenzettel 38 Setze die Hintergrundfarbe 39 Ein paar Kleinigkeiten 39 Ausgefallene Schriftarten 40 Der Zettelhintergrund 42 Der richtige Dreh 43 Ein Bild von einem Burger 44 Freie Platzwahl 45 Runde Sache 46 Modische Mütze 46 Punkte sind out 48 Code 49 Kapitel 3: Stundenplan 2.0 52 Vorbereitung 53 Der Einstieg in die Tabellenwelt 53 Tabellen mit Stil 56 Umgebung und Ausrichtung 56 Zeile für Zeile 57 Zeit für die erste Spalte 60 Neben der Zeit 60 Der letzte Schliff 61 Smarter mit CSS-Klassen 62 Auslagern der Tabellenzellen 63 Bilder hinzufügen 64 Endlich Freistunde 66 Die Wildnis kommt 66

Read more less

Book SynopsisHTML und CSS lernen auf die kreative Art: Sie möchten Webseiten erstellen und gestalten und brauchen dafür noch ein wenig Grundlagenwissen? Visuelle Informationen erfassen Sie schneller und intuitiver als lange Texte? Dann ist dieses Buch für Sie gemacht! Jon Duckett stellt Ihnen alle häufig benötigten HTML- und CSS-Tags vor - an Beispielen, die auf einen Blick einleuchten, und übersichtlichen Code-Schnipseln, die Sie praktischerweise von der Verlagswebsite herunterladen können. Auch wenn Sie keinerlei Vorkenntnisse mitbringen sollten, werden Sie sich im Handumdrehen zurechtfinden: Im ersten Teil des Buchs lernen Sie von Grund auf, wie Sie Webseiten mit HTML strukturieren und z. B. Texte, Bilder, Tabellen, Formulare und Audio- und Video-Dateien einfügen. Im zweiten Teil steigen Sie in CSS ein und erfahren, wie Sie die einzelnen Seitenelemente gestalten und attraktive Layouts entwerfen. Selbstverständlich sind alle Beschreibungen aktuell zu HTML5 und CSS3. Im letzten Teil des Buchs zeigt Ihnen Jon Duckett dann, wie Sie Ihre neu gewonnenen Kenntnisse zusammenführen und eine Website bauen, die optimal auf Ihre Zielgruppe zugeschnitten und für Suchmaschinen gut auffindbar ist. Damit wissen Sie alles, was Sie wissen müssen - lassen Sie Ihrer Kreativität freien Lauf!Table of ContentsEinleitung 7 Kapitel 1: Struktur 17 Kapitel 2: Text 45 Kapitel 3: Listen 67 Kapitel 4: Links 79 Kapitel 5: Bilder 99 Kapitel 6: Tabellen 131 Kapitel 7: Formulare 149 Kapitel 8: Besonderes Markup 181 Kapitel 9: Flash, Video & Audio 205 Kapitel 10: Einführung in CSS 231 Kapitel 11: Farbe 251 Kapitel 12: Text 269 Kapitel 13: Kästen 305 Kapitel 14: Listen, Tabellen & Formulare 335 Kapitel 15: Layout 363 Kapitel 16: Bilder 411 Kapitel 17: Layout in HTML5 433 Kapitel 18: Arbeitsablauf & Gestaltung 457 Kapitel 19: Veröffentlichung im Web 481 Index 499

Read more less

Book SynopsisDieses essential liefert komprimiertes Überblickswissen rund um Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0. Es zeigt ausgewählte Zusammenhänge mit großen gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen auf, benennt technisch und weniger technisch geprägte Anforderungen an uns Menschen und gibt Überlegungen zu persönlicher Entwicklung und Entfaltung in der Gemeinschaft als Konsequenz. Abrundend werden vielfältige Anknüpfungspunkte zu weiteren Offline- und Online-Quellen angeboten.Table of ContentsDigitalisierung.- Vernetzung von belebter und unbelebter Materie.- Künstliche Intelligenz.- Gesellschaft und Arbeiten 4.0.- Vernetztes Lernen.- Individuelle Entwicklung und Entfaltung

Read more less

Book SynopsisDie unscharfe Logik (Fuzzy Logic) erweitert die klassische Logik, indem neben den beiden Wahrheitswerten 1 für ‚wahr’ und 0 für ‚falsch’ alle Werte des Einheitsintervalls zugelassen sind. Die unscharfe Logik entspricht der menschlichen Wahrnehmung, da sie unsichere Sachverhalte oder vage Aussagen in einem Entscheidungsprozess mitberücksichtigt. Edy Portmann und Andreas Meier geben in diesem essential über Fuzzy Leadership einen Überblick zu Grundlagen der unscharfen Logik und zeigen das Potenzial in unterschiedlichen Anwendungen der digitalen Wirtschaft sowie in der Informations- und Wissensgesellschaft auf. Die Autoren:Prof. Dr. Edy Portmann ist Swiss Post Professor of Computer Science am Human-IST Institut der Universität Fribourg, Schweiz. In seiner Forschung beschäftigt er sich mit Fragen rund um Informationssysteme, -verarbeitung und -beschaffung. Prof. Dr. Andreas Meier leitete in den Jahren 1999 bis 2018 den Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Universität Fribourg, Schweiz. Seine Forschungsgebiete waren eBusiness, eGovernment und Informationsmanagement. Table of ContentsFuzzy Leadership.- Human Smart Cities.- eSociety Reloaded.- Wo führt die Reise hin?.

Read more less

Book SynopsisAndreas Meier und Edy Portmann verwenden in diesem essential über Fuzzy Management die unscharfe Logik zur Lösung betriebswirtschaftlicher Probleme in der digitalen Wirtschaft. Die unscharfe Logik erweitert die klassische Logik mit den beiden Werten „wahr“ und „falsch“ und führt zu differenzierteren Beurteilungen. Neben Portfolio Management, Performance Measurement, Service Level Engineering und Reputationsmanagement wird die Business Intelligence mit weichen Faktoren angereichert, um den Entscheidungsprozess zu verbessern.Die Autoren: Prof. Dr. Andreas Meier leitete in den Jahren 1999 bis 2018 den Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Universität Fribourg, Schweiz. Seine Forschungsgebiete waren eBusiness, eGovernment und Informationsmanagement. Prof. Dr. Edy Portmann ist Swiss Post Professor of Computer Science am Human-IST Institut der Universität Fribourg, Schweiz. In seiner Forschung beschäftigt er sich mit Fragen rund um Informationssysteme, -verarbeitung und -beschaffung.Table of ContentsFuzzy Management und Portfolio Management.- Performance Measurement und Service Level Engineering.- Reputationsanalysen und Business Intelligence.

Read more less

Book SynopsisDie Themen Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit dominieren die Zukunft von Unternehmen und unserer Gesellschaft in den nächsten Jahrzehnten. Wenn Unternehmen die Digitalisierung aktiv umsetzen, müssen sie folglich ökonomische, ökologische und soziale Aspekte im Sinne der Nachhaltigkeit berücksichtigen. Genau hier setzt Michael Jacob an: Der Autor geht im ersten Teil des Buches auf die Grundlagen der Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit anhand der wichtigsten Modelle ein. Im zweiten Teil wird der Fokus auf die Frage gelegt, wie Unternehmen den Digitalisierungsprozess nachhaltig gestalten können. Ein kurzes Fazit rundet die beiden Hauptteile ab.Damit ist das Buch ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel, um Zielkonflikte zwischen den Bereichen Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit zunächst zu erkennen und dann entsprechend entscheiden zu können. Somit können Unternehmen ihrer gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung (Corporate Social Responsibility) nachkommen. Ein Buch für alle, die eine kompakte Einführung in die beiden großen Themen unserer Zeit suchen.Table of ContentsDigitalisierung und digitaler Wandel.- Modelle und Strategien der Nachhaltigkeit.- Megatrends als Rahmenbedingungen.- Verantwortung der Unternehmensführung.- Digitale und nachhaltige Geschäftsmodelle und Produkte.- Nachhaltige Gestaltung digitaler Prozesse.

Read more less

Book SynopsisDer digitale Zwilling lässt sich als intelligentes, digitales Abbild eines realen Produktes oder Prozesses beschreiben. Die Studie untersucht digitale Zwillinge aus einer Geschäftsmodellperspektive. Eine vergleichende Analyse von sechs unterschiedlichen Geschäftsmodellen anhand des Business Model Canvas zeigt deutliche Unterschiede in der Interpretation der Begrifflichkeit des digitalen Zwillings und dessen Verwendung als Geschäftsmodell auf. Die größte Herausforderung für die Entwicklung digitaler Zwillinge sind fehlende monetäre Argumente und das Überwinden von Schnittstellenproblematiken. Gleichzeitig werden große Potenziale im Business to Business-Bereich (B2B) und mittelfristig auch im Business to Customer-Bereich (B2C) erwartet. ​Die Autoren:Robin Klostermeier ist Unternehmensberater und berät Kunden zu Fragen der digitalen Transformation und Datenintegration.Prof. Dr. Steffi Haag ist Juniorprofessorin für Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian ist Professor für Wirtschaftsinformatik & E-Services an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt.Table of ContentsAnwendungsbereiche digitaler Zwillinge.- Fallstudienergebnisse – Definition digitaler Zwillinge, digitaler Zwilling als Produkt und Geschäftsmodell.- Entwicklung und Potenziale digitaler Zwillinge.- Implikationen für Forschung und Praxis.

Read more less

Book SynopsisImmer mehr Unternehmen bauen Chatbots, damit ihre Kunden und Mitarbeiter in natürlicher Sprache mit den Systemen des Unternehmens kommunizieren können. Mittels Chatbots können dialogintensive Prozesse automatisiert und neue Wissensquellen erschlossen werden. Das vorliegende essential führt die Grundlagen von Chatbots ein und zeigt mit Praxisbeispielen der Schweizerischen Post, wo sie angewendet werden können, worauf bei ihrer Gestaltung geachtet werden muss und welche neuen Fähigkeiten in einem Unternehmen für deren Einsatz erforderlich sind.Die Autoren:Toni Stucki hat langjährige Erfahrungen als Softwarearchitekt. Bei der Schweizerischen Post leitet er ein Softwareentwicklungsteam, mit dem er bereits mehrere Chatbots implementiert hat. Dr. Sara D’Onofrio arbeitete als Innovation-Managerin bei der Schweizerischen Post und war bei der Chatbot-Entwicklung der IT Post mit dabei. In ihrer Dissertation beschäftigte sie sich mit der Thematik Chatbots. Prof. Dr. Edy Portmann ist Swiss Post Professor of Computer Science am Human-IST Institut der Universität Freiburg i.Üe., Schweiz, und beschäftigt sich mit Fragen rund um Informationssysteme, -verarbeitung und -beschaffung. Table of ContentsGrundlagen zu Chatbots.- Chatbots bei der Schweizerischen Post.- Erfahrungsberichte.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe book covers updated Internet topics, including its evolution, working, security threats, and various services. It is presented in an engaging style and is beneficial for students and individuals looking to develop Internet skills.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisEl objetivo perseguido es introducir al lector en el desarrollo de aplicaciones web, aprendiendo los principales conceptos en que se basan las aplicaciones distribuidas y conocer herramientas utilizadas en la creación de aplicaciones de servidor y cliente. Para ello se ha dividido el contenido en cinco grandes capítulos. En el primero de ellos se introduce el concepto de aplicación web, mostrando los protocolos de nivel de aplicación utilizados así como los métodos de representar información asociados a este tipo de aplicaciones. En el segundo capítulo presentamos una metodología de desarrollo de aplicaciones de servidor y las soluciones basadas en Java para llevarlas a cabo. En un tercer capítulo se introduce el concepto de servicio web y se presentan ejemplos para programarlos. El cuarto capítulo se centra en distintas técnicas para la creación de aplicaciones cliente que interactuan con aplicaciones de servidor. Finalmente, en el quinto y último capítulo, se propone un ejemplo de aplicación donde quedan reflejadas las tecnologías presentadas en este libro.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less