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University of Minnesota Press Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed
Book SynopsisA complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight We’re used to talking about how tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon rule the internet, but what about daemons? Ubiquitous programs that have colonized the Net’s infrastructure—as well as the devices we use to access it—daemons are little known. Fenwick McKelvey weaves together history, theory, and policy to give a full account of where daemons come from and how they influence our lives—including their role in hot-button issues like network neutrality.Going back to Victorian times and the popular thought experiment Maxwell’s Demon, McKelvey charts how daemons evolved from concept to reality, eventually blossoming into the pandaemonium of code-based creatures that today orchestrates our internet. Digging into real-life examples like sluggish connection speeds, Comcast’s efforts to control peer-to-peer networking, and Pirate Bay’s attempts to elude daemonic control (and skirt copyright), McKelvey shows how daemons have been central to the internet, greatly influencing everyday users.Internet Daemons asks important questions about how much control is being handed over to these automated, autonomous programs, and the consequences for transparency and oversight.Trade Review"Beneath social media, beneath search, Internet Daemons reveals another layer of algorithms: deeper, burrowed into information networks. Fenwick McKelvey is the best kind of intellectual spelunker, taking us deep into the infrastructure and shining his light on these obscure but vital mechanisms. What he has delivered is a precise and provocative rethinking of how to conceive of power in and among networks."—Tarleton Gillespie, author of Custodians of the Internet"Internet Daemons is an original and important contribution to the field of digital media studies. Fenwick McKelvey extensively maps and analyzes how daemons influence data exchanges across Internet infrastructures. This study insightfully demonstrates how daemons are transformative entities that enable particular ways of transferring information and connecting up communication, with significant social and political consequences."—Jennifer Gabrys, author of Program EarthTable of ContentsAbbreviations and Technical TermsIntroduction1. The Devil We Know: Maxwell’s Demon, Cyborg Sciences, and Flow Control2. Possessing Infrastructure: Nonsynchronous Communication, IMPs, and Optimization3. IMPs, OLIVERs, and Gateways: Internetworking before the Internet4. Pandaemonium: The Internet as Daemons5. Suffering from Buffering? Affects of Flow Control6. The Disoptimized: The Ambiguous Tactics of the Pirate Bay7. A Crescendo of Online Interactive Debugging? Gamers, Publics and DaemonsConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Internet Measurement and MediatorsNotesBibliographyIndex
£80.00
University of Minnesota Press Internet Daemons: Digital Communications
Book SynopsisA complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight We’re used to talking about how tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon rule the internet, but what about daemons? Ubiquitous programs that have colonized the Net’s infrastructure—as well as the devices we use to access it—daemons are little known. Fenwick McKelvey weaves together history, theory, and policy to give a full account of where daemons come from and how they influence our lives—including their role in hot-button issues like network neutrality.Going back to Victorian times and the popular thought experiment Maxwell’s Demon, McKelvey charts how daemons evolved from concept to reality, eventually blossoming into the pandaemonium of code-based creatures that today orchestrates our internet. Digging into real-life examples like sluggish connection speeds, Comcast’s efforts to control peer-to-peer networking, and Pirate Bay’s attempts to elude daemonic control (and skirt copyright), McKelvey shows how daemons have been central to the internet, greatly influencing everyday users.Internet Daemons asks important questions about how much control is being handed over to these automated, autonomous programs, and the consequences for transparency and oversight.Trade Review"Beneath social media, beneath search, Internet Daemons reveals another layer of algorithms: deeper, burrowed into information networks. Fenwick McKelvey is the best kind of intellectual spelunker, taking us deep into the infrastructure and shining his light on these obscure but vital mechanisms. What he has delivered is a precise and provocative rethinking of how to conceive of power in and among networks."—Tarleton Gillespie, author of Custodians of the Internet"Internet Daemons is an original and important contribution to the field of digital media studies. Fenwick McKelvey extensively maps and analyzes how daemons influence data exchanges across Internet infrastructures. This study insightfully demonstrates how daemons are transformative entities that enable particular ways of transferring information and connecting up communication, with significant social and political consequences."—Jennifer Gabrys, author of Program EarthTable of ContentsAbbreviations and Technical TermsIntroduction1. The Devil We Know: Maxwell’s Demon, Cyborg Sciences, and Flow Control2. Possessing Infrastructure: Nonsynchronous Communication, IMPs, and Optimization3. IMPs, OLIVERs, and Gateways: Internetworking before the Internet4. Pandaemonium: The Internet as Daemons5. Suffering from Buffering? Affects of Flow Control6. The Disoptimized: The Ambiguous Tactics of the Pirate Bay7. A Crescendo of Online Interactive Debugging? Gamers, Publics and DaemonsConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Internet Measurement and MediatorsNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
University of Minnesota Press Shareveillance: The Dangers of Openly Sharing and
Book SynopsisCracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy In an era of open data and ubiquitous dataveillance, what does it mean to “share”? This book argues that we are all “shareveillant” subjects, called upon to be transparent and render data open at the same time as the security state invests in practices to keep data closed. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s “distribution of the sensible,” Clare Birchall reimagines sharing in terms of a collective political relationality beyond the veillant expectations of the state. Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionReal PeopleThe Attack on TenureFailed LeadershipEye on the BallNo ConfidenceConclusion: Where Are We Now?Acknowledgments
£9.00
University of Minnesota Press Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the
Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde’s pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control In postwar Italy, a group of visionary artists used emergent computer technologies as both tools of artistic production and a means to reconceptualize the dynamic interrelation between individual freedom and collectivity. Working contrary to assumptions that the rigid, structural nature of programming limits subjectivity, this book traces the multifaceted practices of these groundbreaking artists and their conviction that technology could provide the conditions for a liberated social life.Situating their developments within the context of the Cold War and the ensuing crisis among the Italian left, Arte Programmata describes how Italy’s distinctive political climate fueled the group’s engagement with computers, cybernetics, and information theory. Creating a broad range of immersive environments, kinetic sculptures, domestic home goods, and other multimedia art and design works, artists such as Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari, and others looked to the conceptual frameworks provided by this new technology to envision a way out of the ideological impasses of the age.Showcasing the ingenuity of Italy’s earliest computer-based art, this study highlights its distinguishing characteristics while also exploring concurrent developments across the globe. Centered on the relationships between art, technology, and politics, Arte Programmata considers an important antecedent to the digital age. Trade Review "Lindsay Caplan’s Arte Programmata offers a compelling account of a group of lesser-known artists affiliated with the Italian Arte Programmata movement, whose experimental art and design practices, emerging in the nascent years of computerization, pointedly (and presciently) engaged with political questions around freedom and control, individuality and collectivity. Beautifully written, sharply analytic, and free of jargon, Caplan’s incisive study should find a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the roots and impacts of technological change."—Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life "Arte Programmata forces us to reconsider ossified ideas about the relationship between politics and aesthetics by asking us to think seriously about what we mean when we reflexively invoke concepts such as resistance, subversion, and negation to understand radical art and design practices. In doing so, Lindsay Caplan disrupts the categories and boundaries circumscribing art history’s presumed objects and methods. Here, art, design, theory, and politics comingle in new ways that allow us to see the continuing relevance of a particular strand of Italian art and design while also inspiring readers to reconsider their own assumptions about the many forms freedom might take in both our intellectual work and our lives."—Larry D. Busbea, author of The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s "Arte Programmata is simultaneously revolutionary and pragmatic."—Jan Baetens, Leonardo Reviews "This book is a rich and sophisticated narrative of the unfolding of Arte Programmata during the decade of the 1960s."—Ian Verstegen, Leonardo Reviews "Arte Programmata provides a nuanced, incisive window into the ways in which artists grappled with arrival of computing technology in postwar Italy. "—Critical Inquiry "Well-written and relatively jargon-free, Arte Programmata is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the intersection of art and technology (and artists and engineers)."—Technology and Culture "A carefully reconstructed history, focusing on the political dimension and context in which the left, Eco’s ‘open work,’ and early computer art flourished in the same spaces."—Neural
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University of Minnesota Press The Digital Is Kid Stuff: Making Creative
Book SynopsisHow popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America “The children are our future” goes the adage, a proclamation that simultaneously declares both anxiety as well as hope about youth as the next generation. In The Digital Is Kid Stuff, Josef Nguyen interrogates this ambivalence within discussions about today’s “digital generation” and the future of creativity, an ambivalence that toggles between the techno-pessimism that warns against the harm to children of too much screen time and a techno-utopianism that foresees these “digital natives” leading the way to innovation, economic growth, increased democratization, and national prosperity. Nguyen engages cultural histories of childhood, youth, and creativity through chapters that are each anchored to a particular digital media object or practice. Nguyen narrates the developmental arc of a future creative laborer: from a young kid playing the island fictions of Minecraft, to an older child learning do-it-yourself skills while reading Make magazine, to a teenager posting selfies on Instagram, to a young adult creative laborer imagining technological innovations using design fiction. Focusing on the constructions and valorizations of creativity, entrepreneurialism, and technological savvy, Nguyen argues that contemporary culture operates to assuage profound anxieties about—and to defuse valid critiques of—both emerging digital technologies and the precarity of employment for “creative laborers” in twenty-first-century neoliberal America. Trade Review"Josef Nguyen offers a compelling, timely examination of how entangled digital media have become with childhood and creative expression. This is an illuminating and useful read for youth and media researchers, educators, and professionals working in informal education that gets beyond binary thinking about the goods or ills of digital media and instead digs into these forms as play and creative practice."—Carly A. Kocurek, author of Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade"The Digital Is Kid Stuff is a brilliantly argued, engagingly written, and insightful unraveling of the discursive tensions between youth, digital media, and the neoliberal logics informing how and why we value young people’s capacity for creativity. Josef Nguyen offers a rich contextualization and analysis of the ideologies that shape how contemporary society imagines young people's position within creative economies."—Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, author of Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital WorldTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: What We Are to Make of Creative Digital Youth1. Minecraft and the Building Blocks of Creative Individuality2. Make Magazine and the Responsible Risks of DIY Innovation3. Instagram and the Creative Filtering of Authentic Selves4. Design Fiction and the Imagination of Technological FuturesConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£77.60
University of Minnesota Press On the Digital Humanities: Essays and
Book SynopsisA witty and incisive exploration of the philosophical conundrums that animate the digital humanities Since its inception, the digital humanities has been repeatedly attacked as a threat to the humanities: warnings from literary and cultural theorists of technology overtaking English departments and the mechanization of teaching have peppered popular media. Stephen Ramsay’s On the Digital Humanities, a collection of essays spanning the personal to the polemic, is a spirited defense of the field of digital humanities. A founding figure in what was once known as “humanities computing,” Ramsay has a well-known and contentious relationship with what is now called the digital humanities (DH). Here Ramsay collects and updates his most influential and notorious essays and speeches from the past fifteen years, considering DH from an array of practical and theoretical perspectives. The essays pursue a broad variety of themes, including the nature of data and its place in more conventional notions of text and interpretation, the relationship between the constraints of computation and the more open-ended nature of the humanities, the positioning of practical skills and infrastructures in both research and pedagogical contexts, the status of DH as a program for political and social action, and personal reflections on the author’s journey into the field as both a theorist and a technologist. These wide-ranging essays all center around one idea: that DH not forsake its connection to the humanities. While “digital humanities” may sound like an entirely new form of engagement with the artifacts of human culture, Ramsay argues that the field well reveals what is most essential to humanistic inquiry. Trade Review "Stephen Ramsay has long held a reputation as the enfant terrible of digital humanities. This book confirms that notoriety, but not in the way one would expect: his startling and deeply erudite provocations, developed over these many essays, will sting some DH insiders while welcoming many newcomers to the field."—Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland "Wide-ranging, synthetic, and thought-provoking, On the Digital Humanities both captures the energy and anxiety of the ‘DH moment’ and points the way toward the as-yet untapped potential of the relationship between the digital and the humanities. Together, these essays present a complex, highly readable rethinking of the ways digital humanists work, the passions that keep them engaged, and the relationships they build—and the fights they have—in the process."—Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities, Michigan State University
£74.40
University of Minnesota Press On the Digital Humanities: Essays and
Book SynopsisA witty and incisive exploration of the philosophical conundrums that animate the digital humanities Since its inception, the digital humanities has been repeatedly attacked as a threat to the humanities: warnings from literary and cultural theorists of technology overtaking English departments and the mechanization of teaching have peppered popular media. Stephen Ramsay’s On the Digital Humanities, a collection of essays spanning the personal to the polemic, is a spirited defense of the field of digital humanities. A founding figure in what was once known as “humanities computing,” Ramsay has a well-known and contentious relationship with what is now called the digital humanities (DH). Here Ramsay collects and updates his most influential and notorious essays and speeches from the past fifteen years, considering DH from an array of practical and theoretical perspectives. The essays pursue a broad variety of themes, including the nature of data and its place in more conventional notions of text and interpretation, the relationship between the constraints of computation and the more open-ended nature of the humanities, the positioning of practical skills and infrastructures in both research and pedagogical contexts, the status of DH as a program for political and social action, and personal reflections on the author’s journey into the field as both a theorist and a technologist. These wide-ranging essays all center around one idea: that DH not forsake its connection to the humanities. While “digital humanities” may sound like an entirely new form of engagement with the artifacts of human culture, Ramsay argues that the field well reveals what is most essential to humanistic inquiry. Trade Review "Stephen Ramsay has long held a reputation as the enfant terrible of digital humanities. This book confirms that notoriety, but not in the way one would expect: his startling and deeply erudite provocations, developed over these many essays, will sting some DH insiders while welcoming many newcomers to the field."—Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland "Wide-ranging, synthetic, and thought-provoking, On the Digital Humanities both captures the energy and anxiety of the ‘DH moment’ and points the way toward the as-yet untapped potential of the relationship between the digital and the humanities. Together, these essays present a complex, highly readable rethinking of the ways digital humanists work, the passions that keep them engaged, and the relationships they build—and the fights they have—in the process."—Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities, Michigan State University
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of
Book SynopsisAn inquiry into how livestreaming can help us meaningfully connectLivestreaming is ubiquitous in our Covid-19-inflected era. In this book, EL Putnam takes up the implications of this technology, arguing that livestreamed internet broadcasts perform aesthetic and ethical encounters that invite distinctive means of relating to others. Treating humans and technologies as inherently relational, Putnam considers how livestreaming constitutes new patterns of being together that are complex, ambivalent, and transformative. Understood in such a way, we see how livestreaming exceeds quantifying and calculating metrics, challenges emphasis on content generation, and introduces an entirely new—and dynamic—means of social engagement.
£9.00
Bristol University Press Slow Computing: Why We Need Balanced Digital
Book SynopsisDraws on a range of academic debates and packages them in everyday language Uses vignettes and a seven-day ‘self-help guide’ to drive the content Develops conceptual ideas like ‘slow computing’, ‘data sovereignty’ and ‘data ethics of care’ under the guise of a trade titleTrade Review“Clearly identif[ies] the issues and gets [its] teeth into solutions, ideas, and concepts in terms of how we need to be more sentient around these issues. There are lots of good suggestions to follow and we strongly recommend you engage with them.” Irish Tech NewsTable of ContentsLiving Digital Lives Accelerating Life Monitoring Life Personal Strategies of Slow Computing Slow Computing Collectively An Ethics of Digital Care Towards a More Balanced Digital Society
£14.99
Bristol University Press Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to
Book SynopsisProvides a vision for an alternative AI based on decolonial and feminist ethics.Trade Review"Resisting AI is an important and necessary book... McQuillan has provided us with a powerful contribution." Computational ImpactsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Operations of AI 2. Collateral Damage 3. AI Violence 4. Necropolitics 5. Post-machinic Learning 6. People’s Councils 7. Anti-fascist AI
£76.50
Bristol University Press Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World
Book SynopsisThe word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? In Data Lives, renowned social scientist Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how society, government and the economy work. Creatively blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, he demonstrates how data are shaped by social and political forces, and the extent to which they influence our daily lives. He reveals our data world to be one of potential danger, but also of hope.Table of ContentsPart 1 ~ Introduction Data Stories Part 2 ~ the Life of Data Blind Data The Nature of Data Gridlock In Data We Trust How to Lose (and Regain) 3.6 Billion Euros Harmonizing Data Is Hard Open and Shut Case The Politics of Building Civic Tech So More Trumps Better? Hustling for Funding The Secret Science of Formulas The End of the Data Lifecycle Part 3 ~ Living With Data Traces and Shadows Recommended Life The Quantified Self Fighting Fires Management by Metrics Guinea Pigs Big Brother Is Watching and Controlling You Security Theatre When a Country Ignores Its Own Data Data Theft Data for the People, by the People Black Data Matters Part 4 ~ Conclusion A Matter of Life and Death Data Futures
£18.04
Bristol University Press Networked Crime: Does the Digital Make the
Book SynopsisDo digital networks make a difference to the scope, scale and severity of social harm? Considering four distinct digital affordances for crime (access, concealment, evasion and incitement) this book asks whether they are simply new packaging for old problems, with no greater effect on society overall – or is cyberculture significantly escalating illegality? Matthew David gives fresh insights into online harms and behaviours in the fields of hate, obscenity, corruptions of citizenship and appropriation, offering a comprehensive and integrated approach for those both new and experienced in the field of cybercrime.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I: Hate 2. Terrorism and Hate Crime: From the Long Fuse to Hate Speech 3. Bullying, Stalking and Trolling Part II: Obscenity 4. Pornography and Violent Video Games 5. Child Abuse Imagery, Abuse and Grooming Part III: Corruptions of Citizenship 6. Privacy, Surveillance, Whistleblowers and Hacktivism 7. Fake News, Echo Chambers and Citizen Journalism Part IV: Appropriation 8. Fraud, Extortion and Identity Theft 9. Sharing Software, Music and Visual Content 10. Conclusions
£77.39
Bristol University Press Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in
Book SynopsisThe ‘smart city’ is often promoted as a technology-driven solution to complex urban issues. While commentators are increasingly critical of techno-optimistic narratives, the political imagination is dominated by claims that technical solutions can be uniformly applied to intractable problems. This book provides a much-needed alternative view, exploring how ‘home-grown’ digital disruption, driven and initiated by local actors, upends the mainstream corporate narrative. Drawing on original research conducted in a range of urban African settings, Odendaal shows how these initiatives can lead to meaningful change. This is a valuable resource for scholars working in the intersection of science and technology studies, urban and economic geography and sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fantasies, Hope and Compelling Narratives The Expansive Nature of Platforms Hacking Mobility Digital Food Dialogues Cyborg Activism Platform Practices and the Public Imagination Conclusion: On Understanding Situated Platform Urbanism
£76.50
Bristol University Press We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene
Book SynopsisThe concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in the public imagination, a fully developed philosophy of transhumanism has not yet been presented. In this new book, leading philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalization, gene technologies and ethics. He examines the history and meaning of transhumanism and asks bold questions about human perfection, cyborgs, genetically enhanced entities, and uploaded minds. Offering insightful reflections on values, norms and utopia, this will be an important guide for readers interested in contemporary digital culture, gene ethics, and policy making.Table of ContentsTranshumanism: In a Nutshell On a Silicon- based Transhumanism On a Carbon- based Transhumanism A Fictive Ethics The End as a New Beginning
£76.50
Bristol University Press Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made
Book SynopsisDigital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly fascinating or awkward, even disquieting. Eventually, however, they soon disappear in the muddle of everyday life. This is how Mundania takes form. Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand technological change. Scholar-artist Robert Willim deftly unpacks the interplay between everyday life and the immense complexity of technological infrastructures. Offering imaginative new insights into our relationship with technology, this book will appeal to readers in a range of fields from science and technology studies and media studies to the arts.Table of Contents1. Arrival 2. Vanishing Points 3. In-between 4. Beyond 5. Beneath 6. Opacity 7. Order Variability Openings
£77.39
Bristol University Press Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy:
Book Synopsis• A timely analysis of work on the digital shop floor of the platform economy. • Based on extensive fieldwork, including interviews with Amazon workers.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Examining The World of Work and Workers 2. How to Study Alienation: Marx’s Four Relations 3. How to Grasp Agency: The Power Resources Approach Part 2: The Birth and Growth of Platforms 4. Historicizing Three Generations of Platforms 5. Contextualizing Amazon’s Growing Empire Part 3: Workers on the (Digital) Amazon Shop Floor 6. Cog in the Machine: Working the Amazon Circulation Line 7. “I Am Not a Robot”: (Trans)national Labour Organization at the Warehouses 8. “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”: Gigging on Amazon Mechanical Turk 9. Instrumentalizing Technology: Digital Solidarity with and among MTurk Workers 10. Alienation Across Amazon and the Platform Economy 11. The Power of Amazon Workers and Platform Workers 12. Conclusion
£76.50
Bristol University Press DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in
Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book addresses new challenges to the formation of publics in datafied democracies. It proposes a fresh, complex and nuanced approach to understand 'datapublics' by considering datafication and public formation in the context of audience, journalism and infrastructure studies. The tightly woven chapters shed new light on how platforms, algorithms and their data infrastructure are embedded in journalistic values, discourses and practices, opening up new conditions for publics to display agency, mobilize and achieve legitimacy. This is a seminal contribution to debates about the future of media, journalism and civic practices.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Datapublics Beyond the Rise and Fall Narrative - Jannie Møller Hartley, David Mathieu and Jannick Kirk Sørensen Part 1: Agentic Publics 2. Deconstructing the Notion of Algorithmic Control over Datapublics - David Mathieu 3. Counterpublicness and Hybrid Tactics across Physical and Mediated Spaces - Mette Bengtsson and Anna Schjøtt 4. Stratified Public Formation in Mundane Settings - Morten Fischer Sivertsen and Mikkeline Sofie Skjerning Thomsen Part 2: Cultivated Publics 5. Imagining Publics through Emerging Technologies - Jannie Møller Hartley and Anna Schjøtt 6. Personalization Logics and Publics by Design - Jannie Møller Hartley, Anna Schjøtt and Jannick Kirk Sørensen Part 3: Infrastructured Publics 7. Classifying the News: Metadata as Structures of Visibility and Compliance with Tech Standards - Lisa Merete Kristensen and Jannick Kirk Sørensen 8. Infrastructuring Publics: Datafied Infrastructures of the News Media - Lisa Merete Kristensen and Jannick Kirk Sørensen 9. Conclusion: Datapublics as a Site of Struggles - David Mathieu and Jannie Møller Hartley
£76.50
Bristol University Press Data Power in Action: Urban Data Politics in
Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how the intensive use of data changes politics, power relations, and everyday life in contemporary cities. Across the volume, expert contributors show how urban actors, from the state to activists, are increasingly using data as a resource to empower their actions and support their claims, while also demonstrating how times of crisis are moments when the power of data is made visible. Focusing on the different dimensions of data power and politics in the urban realm, this is an important contribution to our understanding of how datafication transforms the places in which we live and how we experience them.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Urban data Politics in Times of Crisis - Ola Söderström and Ayona Datta Part 1: Framing Urban Data Politics 1. Urban data, governmentality, capitalism, ethics and justice - Rob Kitchin 2. Platforms as states: The rise of governance through data power - Petter Törnberg 3. Data Ethics in Practice: Rethinking scales, trust and autonomy - Alison Powell 4. The contingencies of urban data: between the interoperable and inoperable - AbdouMaliq Simone Part 2: Strategies 5. Experiments in practice: New directions in municipal data policy and governance - Sarah Barns 6. Webinars and War-rooms: Techno-politics of data in shaping COVID19 narratives - Ayona Datta and Ola Söderström 7. The Smartmentality of Urban Data Politics: Evidence from Two Chinese Cities - Robin Xu Ying, Federico Caprotti and Crison Chien Part 3: Tactics 8. Platform work, everyday life, and survival in times of crisis: views and experiences from Nairobi - Prince K Guma 9. An urban data politics of scale: Lessons from South Africa - Jonathan Cinnamon 10. Beyond ‘data positivism’. Civil society organizations’ data and knowledge tactics in South Africa - Evan Blake, Nancy Odendaal, Ola Söderström Epilogue: Data, crisis, and learning - Orit Halpern
£26.59
Bristol University Press The Realities of Autonomous Weapons
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?
Book SynopsisFor many of us, the presidential election of 2000 was a wake-up call. The controversy following the vote count led to demands for election reform. But the new voting systems that were subsequently introduced to the market have serious security flaws, and many are confusing and difficult to use. Moreover, legislation has not kept up with the constantly evolving voting technology, leaving little to no legal recourse when votes are improperly counted. How did we come to acquire the complex technology we now depend on to count votes? Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons probe this question, along with public policy and regulatory issues raised by our voting technologies. "Broken Ballots" is a thorough and incisive analysis of the current voting climate and it approaches American elections from technological, legal, and historical perspectives. The authors examine the ways Americans vote today, gauging how inaccurate, unreliable, and insecure our voting systems are. An important book for election administrators, political scientists, and students of government and technology policy, "Broken Ballots" is also a vital tool for any voting American.
£22.50
O'Reilly Media Jumpstarting C: Learn the All-Purpose Programming
Book SynopsisJumpstarting books provide an avenue for makers to quickly master topical knowledge! Each book starts with instructions on how to install or initialize the hardware or software needed to reach the "Hello, World" stage of getting started! The second project in the book builds on the first to use more of the hardware or software's capabilities. Later projects expand the user's knowledge into lesser-known aspects of the topic. All Jumpstarting projects are for Makers -- they provide hands-on, real-world experience in making the hardware or software do what you want it to do!
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Bullying & Cyberbullying: What Every Educator and
Book SynopsisRevised and updated to address shifts in the climate of bullying in schools and online, this timely work suggests anti-bullying approaches that are concrete, practical, and grounded in research. In this deeply insightful work, nationally renowned bullying expert Elizabeth Kandel Englander offers sensible perspectives on student social behavior and equips educators and parents with effective strategies to identify and address bullying. This second edition of Bullying and Cyberbullying reveals how enormous social changes, increased digital connections, and a global pandemic have indelibly altered the psychological world of children—and in turn shaped their peer interactions. Englander notes that effective school bullying prevention and intervention is rooted in a solid understanding of child development, social structures in schools, and the connections between online behavior and in-school socializing. Building on continuing research on smartphone and social media usage, online privacy, and sexting and other risky behaviors, this updated edition prepares educators and parents to identify gateway behaviors, anticipate bias-based bullying, and respond to aggression and harassment. Englander offers sage advice for promoting resilience, strong friendships, and healthy technology use, among other prosocial behaviors that can avert bullying among students. This much-needed work provides an accessible framework for understanding and responding effectively to bullying and offers suggestions for collaboration between educators and parents.Trade Review“Englander's second edition brings a wealth of new knowledge to educators and parents who seek to combat bullying and cyberbullying. My favorite chapters tackle the role of bystanders—and how we can empower them—and the best ways to come alongside parents in supporting their children. Her tone is kind, motivating, and helpful; she realizes these problems cannot be solved easily, but that we can make measurable headway through a variety of specific, actionable strategies.”—Sameer Hinduja, professor, Florida Atlantic University and codirector, Cyberbullying Research Center“Englander lays out the many complex angles to bullying and cyberbullying and makes them easily understood. It is an essential book for parents, educators, and mental health clinicians as well. Englander has deeply influenced my approach to how I assess and treat my patients (and their families) throughout their childhood and teenage years.”—Clifford Sussman, MD, child and adolescent psychiatrist and internet and video game addiction specialist
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Wits University Press Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to capture the poignant stories of transnational African families and their use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in mediating their experiences of migration and caring across distance. Transnational Families in Africa analyses the highs and lows of family separation as a result of migration in three contexts: migration within South Africa from rural to urban areas; migration from other African countries into South Africa; and middle-class South Africans emigrating to non-African countries.The book foregrounds the importance of kinship and support from extended family as well as both the responsibilities migatory family members feel and the experience of loss by those left behind. Across the diverse circumstances explored in the book are similarities in migrants’ strategies for keeping in touch, but also large differences in relation to access to ICTs and ease-of-use that highlight the digital divide and generational gaps. As elsewhere in the world, and in spite of the varied experiences in these kinship circles, the phenomenon that is the transnational family is showing no signs of receding. This book provides a groundbreaking contribution to global debates on migration from the Global South.Table of Contents Foreword – Gonzalo Bacigalupe Acknowledgments Part 1 Theoretical Context Chapter 1 Setting the Scene – Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar Chapter 2 Methodological Challenges and Opportunities: Our Work, Our Selves – Daniella Rafaely, Loretta Baldassar, Leslie Swartz and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer Part 2 Participants’ Stories of African Migration, Family Relations and ICTs Chapter 3 ‘Ah! Do I Know What Data Is, My Child?’ Rural–Urban Migration and the Struggle to Stay in Touch – Lactricia Maja, Risuna Mathebula, Sonto Madonsela and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer Chapter 4 ‘They Will Be Yearning’: Zimbabwean Migration to South Africa and Keeping the Family Connected – Siko Moyo, Sonto Madonsela and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer Chapter 5 ‘You Do Not Finish All Stories’: Malawian Families and the Struggle to Stay Connected – Esther Price and Glory Kabaghe Chapter 6 (Dis)connections: The Paradox of Intergenerational WhatsApp Communication in Transnational Kenyan Families – Ajwang’ Warria Chapter 7 Making a World of Care: DRC Refugees’ Barber Shop Stories – Thembelihle Coka and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer Chapter 8 The Luxury of Longing: Experiences of ICTs by South African Emigrants to Non-African Countries and Their Families – Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer and Leslie Swartz Part 3 Final Considerations Chapter 9 Analysis of Important Data Emerging from the Study – Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar Chapter 10 Looking Ahead: Paradox, Criticality and a Way Forward – Daniella Rafaely, Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar Contributors Index
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Wits University Press Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and
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Wits University Press Digital Capitalism and its Limits
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Hyperconnectivity: Economical, Social and
Book SynopsisThe use of digital information and communication technologies would be the traces of a social acceptability of the exploitation of all data, in the context of negotiations of uses. This is the reason why the users present themselves actors and contributors of the hyperconnectivity. We would thus witness a new form of dissemination, inviting user experience and social innovations. It is thus the victory of subordination by negotiated renunciation; A new form of serving, no longer that of the 1980s, with the counters and other services, which have become uncontrolled services - excepted when the users are overcome by restrictive ergonomics, revealing too much the subordination device - which joins the prescription apparently without an injunction. The lure is at its height when users and broadcasters come together to produce the services and goods, composing the business model, until the very existence of the companies, in particular the pure players. Crowdsourcing becomes legitimate: consumers create the content, deliver the data, the basis of the service sold (in a painless way because free access most of the time, indirect financing), the providers make available and administer the service, networks , Interfaces (representing considerable costs), also reputation to attract the attention of other consumers or contributors. In these conditions, the environmental stakes are considerable, so we propose another way of considering them, not as they are dealt with - material and pollution - but according to the prism of the relational practices analyzed in this volume.Table of ContentsIntroduction vii Chapter 1 The Technological Offer and Globalized Services 1 1.1 Importance of the open communication protocol 2 1.2 Mediation and industrialization of connection 7 1.3 Monopolies and dominance 11 Chapter 2 The Hyperconnected Economy 21 2.1 A free mode of access and use 22 2.2 Two indirect funding methods: advertising and data marketing 28 2.2.1 Advertising revenues 29 2.2.2 Data production and sales 33 2.3 An activation method: solicitation 36 2.4 The government’s involvement 44 Chapter 3 Social Appropriation and Digital Culture 51 3.1 Ambivalence of uses 58 3.2 Industrialization of the uses of interactivity: territories of hyperconnectivity 66 3.3 Uses of interactivity 73 Chapter 4 Renunciation and Negotiations 77 4.1 Uses at the foundation of renunciation and negotiations 77 4.2 Negotiated renunciation 92 Chapter 5 Environmental Issues 105 5.1 Absence of environmental dimension 107 5.2 Materiality of the immaterial 112 5.3 Energy consumption and greenhouse gas production 120 5.4 Impacts of software and website design 127 5.5 Injunctive, ecological and programmed obsolescence 132 5.5.1 Planned obsolescence 133 5.5.2 Injunctive obsolescence 135 5.5.3 Ecological obsolescence 136 Conclusion 139 References 147 Index 161
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc The Algorithmic Code of Ethics: Ethics at the
Book SynopsisThe technical progress illustrated by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), online platforms, NBICs, autonomous expert systems, and the Blockchain let appear the possibility of a new world and the emergence of a fourth industrial revolution centered around digital data. Therefore, the advent of digital and its omnipresence in our modern society create a growing need to lay ethical benchmarks against this new religion of data, the "dataisme".Table of ContentsForeword viiLina WILLIATTE Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Chapter 1. Ethics at the Service of Digital Technology 1 1.1. Towards a new paradigm of the digital society 2 1.2. Questions regarding the algorithmic universe 8 1.3. Ethics as a digital compass 19 1.4. Ethical challenges and risks regarding algorithmic processing 27 1.5. The environmental parameters of digital technology 37 1.6. What is the place of mankind in this digital society? 43 Chapter 2. The Code is Ethics and Ethics is the Code 55 2.1. Nature, the creator of codes, programming and algorithms 56 2.2. Algorithmic Darwinism 62 2.3. The evolutionary digital world 64 2.4. Environmental ethics 67 2.5. Algorithmic ethics 72 2.5.1. The symbiotic bridge between algorithms and ethics 75 2.5.2. Trust at the heart of a new ethics 79 2.5.3. The “blockchainization” of ethics 87 2.6. The codification of ethics via a process of networks of neurons 90 2.7. The complexity around an ethical AI 98 2.8. The Neo-Platonist ethical systemic platform (Ψ, G, Φ) 104 2.9. The systemic analysis approach centered on the individual in a digital ecosystem 112 2.10. Toward quantum ethics? 118 Chapter 3. The Framework for Algorithmic Processing 121 3.1. Characteristics of NICT essential for their use 122 3.1.1. Adaptability 125 3.1.2. Availability 125 3.1.3. Robustness 125 3.1.4. Auditability 127 3.1.5. IT integration 128 3.1.6. Consolidation 128 3.1.7. Diffusion 129 3.1.8. Co-ordination 129 3.1.9. Interoperability 129 3.2. Scenarios for the digital economy. 131 3.2.1. Scenario 1: the generalization and commercialization of algorithms combined with Platform as a Service (PaaS) tools 134 3.2.2. Scenario 2: organization into silos independent of data producers and algorithmic processing specialists 134 3.2.3. Scenario 3: domination of AI leaders via proprietary algorithms with unparalleled performances 135 3.3. An algorithm’s ethical rules 137 3.4. Ethical evaluation of algorithmic processing 142 3.4.1. Evaluation of data and practices 144 3.4.2. Evaluating the algorithm and its practices 146 3.5. The framework surrounding algorithmic systems 149 3.5.1. Digital governance 150 3.5.2. Digital regulation 155 3.5.3. Digital confidence 160 3.5.4. Algorithmic responsibility 164 3.6. Ethical management and direction framing algorithmic systems 169 Conclusion 179 Appendix 185 List of Abbreviations 191 References 197 Index 207
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Emerald Publishing Limited A World Beyond Work?: Labour, Money and the
Book SynopsisSensing a future beyond work lurking in an age of crisis, the ‘post-capitalist’ utopias of today spread the idea of a permanent escape from work aided by the automation of production, a universal basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero. By skilfully unpicking the political economy of contemporary work and its futures, this book mounts a forceful critique of the post-work society vision. Dinerstein and Pitts reveal that transitional measures towards a world beyond work do not do enough to break away from the key features of capitalist society, and instead potentially stifle the capacity for transformative social change. Proposing an innovative alternative, the authors envision the construction of ‘concrete utopias’ that shape and anticipate non-capitalist futures.Trade Review‘Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Pitts' book is a fundamental contribution to the debate on post-capitalist utopias. The Coronavirus crisis has accelerated the morbid symptoms of austerity-driven capitalism, and we must develop new strategies to escape the increasingly authoritarian trends of nation-states. A World Beyond Work offers a blueprint ready to develop a future against and beyond capitalism. This will be an essential read for the next decade.’ -- Dr Mònica Clua Losada, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley‘A World Beyond Work? is one of the great books of our generation. The future of work and the notion of basic income are topics on which every active citizen must form a view. Too often, these topics are discussed by referring to money and the state in an untheorised and, ultimately, naive way. Dinerstein and Pitts avoid these pitfalls by drawing on the work of Marx. Political issues and issues in the social sciences compete for attention and, sometimes, have an ephemeral feel. A World Beyond Work? is different. It is a landmark. We shall be consulting Dinerstein and Pitts for years.’ -- -Richard Gunn, co-founder of open Marxism‘As we look towards building the economic order of the 21st century, post-capitalist and post-work visions capture the interest of many across the left and beyond. Dinerstein and Pitts undertake the necessary work of taking this stance seriously, offering a balanced, dense, thoughtful and enriching critique.’ -- -Alessandro Gandini, University of Milan‘This is a timely and important book. In it, Dinerstein and Pitts carefully dissect loose arguments that automation and basic income necessarily promise a better future. Their theoretical and empirical rigour offer a vital corrective to misplaced and uncritical hope and invite scholars and activists to think carefully about the demands they are making, how, and why.’ -- -Neil Howard, University of Bath‘This book offers a scholarly contribution to studies of value, work, (un)employment, and social movements in the 21st Century. This is also a book about hope and creativity at a time of narrow horizons and bleak pessimism. It brings to us a world with new possibilities of freedom. Dinerstein and Pitts point to new pathways to this world – pathways broader than postwar social democracy, more radical than the traditional communist parties, and carefully attuned to our own times of overlapping crises of profitability, living standards, health and the environment. A must!’ -- -Alfredo Saad-Filho, King’s College London'This is a ground-breaking contribution to debates about the future of work, mechanisation and social reproduction. Anyone interested in these themes – and particularly the highly topical issue of universal basic income – should read Dinerstein’s and Pitts’ powerful critique. The authors offer a vital antidote to the technological utopianism widespread on the left today.' -- Adrian Wilding, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin'With an insightful combination of theoretical debates on political economy, the State and social change, this book offers a perceptive debunking of political practice today for a new radical horizon, this book is a must read in this dire times.' -- Mariano Féliz, National University of La Plata.'The book provides a sustained critique of the notion that we are on the verge of a post work society, where the travails of wage labour will be overcome by a fully automated production process, underpinned by a universal basic income. Grounded in Karl Marx’s value theory of labour, the authors argue human emancipation cannot be dependent on state handouts; but, rather, on the everyday prefigurative struggles of grassroots social movements. Study this book.' -- Mike Neary, Emeritus professor, University of Lincoln.'Discussing the world to come is essential, but even more important is where we stand to enter this important debate. This book offers an open Marxist critique of the post-capitalist UBI and automation-based utopia by placing ‘uncomfortable' categories (value, money, state, and class struggle) at the center of the analysis to comprehend the contradictory dynamics and emancipatory power of concrete struggles (utopias) against the world of money.' -- Luciana Ghiotto, University of San Martin.'Dinerstein and Pitts strike a very fine balance between rigour and fluidity throughout the book, which makes it inviting for graduate students too.' -- Daniel S. Lacerda, Work, Employment & Society JournalTable of ContentsChapter 1. Post-work, Post-capitalism, Post-what? An Introduction Chapter 2. Futures Past and Present: On Automation Chapter 3. The Post-Work Prospectus: On Labour Chapter 4. Productivist Mandates: On Value Chapter 5. Pennies from Heaven: On Money Chapter 6. Basic Income in One Country: On the State Chapter 7. Liquidating Labour Struggles? On Social Reproduction Chapter 8. Hope and Prefigurative Translation: On Utopia
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Internet City: People, Companies, Systems and
Book SynopsisAs the Internet develops, on top of earlier urban communications, facilities and media, it is becoming the site of urban communications on an unprecedented scale. Exploring the history of the Internet, from pre-conception to the possibilities of an internet-based future, The Internet City explores ways in which the Internet and urban life intersect. The book interprets how the contemporary city is becoming fully based on Internet technologies in all of its major dimensions: the daily activities of urbanites and urban companies, the operations of urban systems, and the functioning of upcoming driverless vehicles. With particular focus on the ways in which people routinely consume urban services via the Internet, Aharon Kellerman examines how they are simultaneously present in physical and digital spaces. Urban geographers and urban planners will benefit from the detailed information on how the cityscape will be altered in the near future by the introduction of internet-based autonomous vehicles. City policy makers will also find this a useful tool to explore how and why policies may need to be updated in accordance with the rising importance of the Internet in the urban sphere.Trade Review‘This is a fascinating book which opens to the reader a wide view of the Internet development, applications and potential impacts on urbanities.’ -- Eran Ben-Elia, Geography Research Forum<>‘Those looking for an introduction to the impacts of the Internet on society and within cities will find the book useful. Kellerman has provided a public service in marshalling the basic historical and contemporary data about how the Internet has become embedded in our lives in multiple ways, and in showing us in an organized fashion some of the main concerns about how AVs may change cities.’ -- Daniel G Chatman, Journal of Urban Technology‘For more than 30 years Aharon Kellerman has chronicled the spatial implications of evolving communications and internet technologies culminating in his current volume The Internet City. . . The book is accessible to a wide audience and would find a place in undergraduate and graduate courses on information geography or urban planning, as well as be useful for urban planners, city managers and policy makers.’ -- Mark Wilson, Urban Analytics and City Science'As the internet revolution continues to reverberate through the global economy and daily life, urban life has become progressively more constituted around digital transactions. Kellerman has long been one of the most astute observers of this transformation. This volume not only covers the basics of how cyberspace has become woven into the contemporary world, such as cell phones and digital divides, it also breaks new ground by addressing topics that have received scant attention, such as autonomous vehicles. It offers a fecund series of insights into how people, firms, and places have been restructured by the ever-growing use of digital technologies. This volume will be useful to students and faculty alike, and of interest to anyone interested in how cyberspace and the analogue world have become shot through with each other.' --Barney Warf, University of Kansas, US'Computer networks and autonomous technologies continue to rapidly redefine the geography of the city. Kellerman has spent a lifetime reflecting on what this might mean and his recent book presents one of the most insightful pictures of this future to date. Essential reading for all those interested in how our future cities will be organised.' --Michael Batty, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I URBAN CONNECTIVITY AND INFORMATIONAL ACTIVITIES 1. Introduction 2. Pre-Internet urban connectivity and informational activities 3. The Internet PART II URBAN INTERNET APPLICATIONS 4. The Internet for Individual users 5. The dual-space society 6. The Internet and companies 7. The Internet for urban systems 8. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the Internet PART III IMPLICATIONS OF URBAN INTERNET APPLICATIONS 9. Urban perspectives for the Internet-based city 10. Conclusion Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Fundamental Rights Protection Online: The Future
Book SynopsisFundamental Rights Protection Online presents an in-depth analysis of national, supranational and international attempts at online speech regulation, illustrating how the law has been unsettled on how to treat intermediaries.In this book, expert contributors explore how problems ranging from disinformation to hate speech to copyright violations are framed and tackled though legislation, codes of conduct and judicial interpretation. The chapters discuss positive law developments in the intersection of intermediary liability and rights, considering both the history and current intellectual debates surrounding European and US legislative initiatives. In addition to examining how the European Union and individual European nations regulate speech online, the book also analyses the e-Commerce Directive, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and principles established under the United Nations. It concludes that content regulation online is best captured by the notion of 'speech curation', involving both private and public actors. Taking a human rights approach to online speech regulation, this timely book will be critical reading for academics and students of law, particularly those with an interest in internet law, information law and human rights. Its exploration of intermediary liability and fundamental rights will also be beneficial for legal practitioners working in online rights protection.Trade Review‘Fundamental Rights Protection Online offers profoundly original insights into critical challenges for internet regulation. Petkova, Ojanen and the contributors call for the EU to overhaul the intermediary liability regime and to demand more responsibility from tech companies. Engaging, provocative and timely, this collection will shape critical policy discussions in the years ahead.' -- Marc Rotenberg, Centre for AI and Digital Policy, Michael Dukakis Institute, US'This volume presents diverse voices and options for addressing the challenges presented by media and business model convergence.' -- Chris Hoofnagle, University of California, Berkeley, US'New technologies of sharing information through online intermediaries can be quite democratizing, as people now have an unprecedented ability to express themselves to a worldwide audience. But there is a dark side to the rise of these technologies: privacy violations, harassment, hate speech, and other insidious dangers have greatly worsened. Fundamental Rights Protection Online is an insightful collection of essays that explores these issues from a European Union fundamental rights perspective. This is an essential volume for understanding how the EU and various member states are addressing intermediaries, free speech, and privacy issues.' -- Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: The Challenges of Change 1 Acknowledgments 2 IntroductionPreface: Fundamental Rights Protection Online: Curation v. Regulation? Bilyana Petkova and Tuomas Ojanen 5 Part I: Conceptual Issues 21 1. Metaphors and judicial frame: why legal imagination (also) matters in the protection of fundamental rights in the digital age Oreste Pollicino 21 2. Filter Bubble and Human Rights Christoph Bezemek 34 Part II: The National Law Approach 43 3. ‘What is illegal offline is also illegal online’ –The German Network Enforcement Act 2017 Thomas Wischmeyer 43 4. Protecting Liberal Democracy from Artificial Information: The French Proposal Kamel Ajji 67 5. Mambo Italiano: The Perilous Italian way to ISP liability Marco Bassini 92 6. A Consumer Protection Approach to Platform Content Moderation in the United States Mark MacCarthy 119 Part III: Toward a European Law Approach? 140 7. The scandal of intermediary: Acknowledging the both/and dispensation for regulating hybrid actors Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon and Robert Thorburn 140 8. Intermediaries in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU: The interplay between liability exemptions and rules on IP protection Alberto Miglio 168 9. Self-Regulation of Fundamental Rights? The EU Code of Conduct on Hate Speech, related initiatives and beyond Teresa Quintel and Carsten Ullrich 182 10. EU proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market: Compatibility of Draft Article 13 with the EU intermediary liability regime Aleksandra Kuczerawy 205 Part IV: Toward an International Law Approach? 220 11. The Liability of Internet Intermediaries and the European Court of Human Rights Marta Maroni 220 12. A Business and Human Rights Perspective for Internet Intermediaries – The Case for Human Rights Due Diligence Lia Heasman 242 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Digital Identity, Virtual Borders and Social
Book SynopsisThis insightful book discusses how states deploy frontier and digital technologies to manage and control migratory movements. Assessing the development of blockchain technologies for digital identities and cash transfer; artificial intelligence for smart borders, resettlement of refugees and assessing asylum applications; social media and mobile phone applications to track and surveil migrants, it critically examines the consequences of new technological developments and evaluates their impact on the rights of migrants and refugees.Chapters evaluate the technology-based public-private projects that govern migration globally and illustrate the political implications of these virtual borders. International contributors compare and contrast different forms of political expression, in both personal technologies, such as social media for refugees and smugglers, and automated decision-making algorithms used by states to enable migration governance. This timely book challenges hegemonic approach to migration governance and provides cases demonstrating the dangers of employing frontier technologies denying basic rights, liberties and agencies of migrants and refugees.Stepping into a contentious political climate for migrants and refugees, this provocative book is ideal reading for scholars and researchers of political science and public policy, particularly those focusing on migration and refugee studies. It will also benefit policymakers and practitioners dealing with migration, such as humanitarian NGOs, UN agencies and local authorities.Trade Review‘Digital Identity, Virtual Borders and Social Media presents sound, scrupulous research into the complexities of technology in migration.’ -- Magda Rodríguez Dehli, Routed‘A unique and seminal collection of seven erudite and informative contributions by experts in the field, Digital Identity, Virtual Borders and Social Media must be considered a core and essential addition to college and university library collections, and essential reading for students, academia, political activists, governmental policymakers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject.’ -- Paul T. Vogel, Midwest Book Review'The book is a timely contribution on how digital technology is used in the establishment, management and enforcement of physical and virtual borders. It offers a multi-faceted view into digital technologies used in the context of migration, offering insights into the potential of these technologies, but also exposing the risks, be it through direct use of technology, its problematic conceptualization, or through inequalities in accessing digital resources.' -- Albert Ali Salah, Utrecht University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Digital Identity, Virtual Borders and Social Media 1 Emre Eren Korkmaz 2 Self-sovereign identity and forced migration: slippery terms and the refugee data apparatus 10 Margie Cheesman and Aiden Slavin 3 Digital identification for the vulnerable: continuities across a century of identification technologies 33 Aiden Slavin 4 Politics of technology: the use of artificial intelligence by US and Canadian immigration agencies and their impacts on human rights 52 Erin Harris and Roxana Akhmetova 5 Migration and smuggling across virtual borders: a European Union case study of internet governance and immigration politics 73 Johanna Bankston 6 Irregular mobility and network capital: the case of the Afghanistan-Iran smuggling route 98 Ruta Nimkar, Emily Savage and Abdullah Mohammadi 7 What shapes the attitude of the European Parliament voters toward migration? A comparative case study on Finland, Hungary and Bulgaria 120 Deniz Yetkin Aker Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Smart-Tech Society: Convenience, Control, and
Book SynopsisInformed by the latest theoretical developments in studies of the social impacts of digital technology, Smart-Tech Society provides an empirically grounded and conceptually informed analysis of the impacts and paradoxes of smart-technology.While making life more convenient, smart-tech has also been associated with a loss of privacy and control over decision-making autonomy. Mark Whitehead and William Collier provide a critical analysis of the lived experience of smart-technology, presenting stories of varied social engagements with digital platforms and devices. Chapters explore the myriad contexts in and through which smart-tech insinuates itself within everyday life, the benefits it brings, and the processes through which it is being resisted. Detailed case studies explore the impacts of smart-technology across a broad range of fields including personal health, work, social life, urban management, and politics.Presenting new empirical evidence and analytical perspectives on the relationships between humans and smart-tech, this book will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of sociology, political science, human geography, and technology studies.Trade Review‘The pages of this book take the reader on a perceptive and revealing journey through the smart-tech society. Bringing clarity to these disorientating and far-reaching transformations, it offers guidance, understanding and an irresistible call to engage with how the future might yet be shaped.’ -- David Beer, University of York, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Smart-Tech Revolution 2. Analysing the smart-tech society 3. Prediction, personalisation, and the data self 4. Behaviour and freedom 5. The smart body—from cyborgs to the quantified self 6. Smart working and the corporation 7. Smart-tech states 8. Dumbing down—recalibrating our relations with smart technology 9. Conclusion References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Crime and Technology
Book SynopsisExamining the consequences of technology-driven lifestyles for both crime commission and victimization, this comprehensive Handbook provides an overview of a broad array of techno-crimes as well as exploring critical issues concerning the criminal justice system’s response to technology-facilitated criminal activity.The Handbook adopts a unique three-fold typology of technology-enabled crime: techno-crime committed by professional criminals (crime as work), techno-crime committed in traditional workplace settings (crime at work), and techno-crime committed by individuals outside of traditional workplace settings (crime after work.) Chapters explore an extensive range of criminal activities facilitated by the digital age, from embezzlement, financial fraud, corporate espionage, phishing, and ransomware to identity theft, hacking, cyber terrorism, and internet sex and hate crimes. Looking to the future, the Handbook considers timely questions posed by our continued reliance on information technology, including whether we are in danger of becoming a global surveillance state and how we might prevent the facilitation of cyber terrorism by social media giants.This dynamic Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in criminology, digital sociology, terrorism and security, and surveillance studies. Offering practical insights on the need for a coordinated global techno-crime control strategy, it will serve as a resource for policymakers seeking cutting edge solutions to the growing problem of techno-crime.Trade Review‘This pioneering volume must be in the library of any scholar or practitioner concerned with the radical upending of crime and responses to it brought by new information technologies. Never in the history of criminology have changes come so quickly, nor been so poorly understood. The book offers a cornucopia of concepts, data and constructive suggestions to help understand and respond thoughtfully to the challenges.’ -- Gary T. Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘The Handbook's 23 chapters, and engaging introduction, address important underlying issues, such as the impact of technology on changes in our lifestyles, the problem of global surveillance of online activity as a control strategy, and the striking lack of success of current prevention and control efforts thus far. In sum, the Handbook provides an interesting and comprehensive assessment of where technology has brought us, and the need for more thoughtful approaches to techno-crime prevention.’ -- Jay Albanese, Virginia Commonwealth University, USTable of ContentsContents: Techno-crime cause, prevention, and control: issues to consider 1 Don Hummer and James M. Byrne PART I TECHNO-CRIME AS WORK 1 Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud 17 Max M. Houck 2 Identity theft and financial loss 38 Don Hummer and Donald J. Rebovich 3 Phishing for profit 54 Eric Chan-Tin and Loretta J. Stalans 4 Advance fee scams 72 Claire Seungeun Lee, Juan Merizalde and Katelyn L. Greer 5 Ransomware 86 Thomas S. Hyslip and George W. Burruss 6 Online health/drug and COVID-19 fraud 105 Claire Seungeun Lee, Katelyn L. Greer and Juan Merizalde 7 Internet sex crimes 116 Loretta J. Stalans and Amber Horning-Ruf 8 Sale of private, confidential, and personal data 135 Yi Ting Chua 9 Online auction fraud 153 Claire Seungeun Lee, Katelyn L. Greer and Juan Merizalde 10 Internet piracy 162 Jaeyong Choi and Jennifer LaPrade PART II TECHNO-CRIME AT WORK 11 Money laundering 176 Arthur J. Lurigio 12 Embezzlement 190 Emily M. Homer and James Byrne 13 The illicit stolen data market 211 Rachel L. McNealey and Jin R. Lee PART III TECHNO-CRIME AFTER WORK 14 Spreading viruses and malicious codes 229 Kyung-Shick Choi, Claire Seungeun Lee and Juan Merizalde 15 Child pornography, child predators, and sex tourism 248 Joshua S. Long 16 Online hate crimes 275 Ina Kamenova and Arie Perliger 17 Cyberstalking 300 Sabrina S. Rapisarda and Kimberly R. Kras 18 Hacking 331 Marlon Mike Toro-Alvarez PART IV THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO TECHNO-CRIME: PUBLIC SECTOR AND PRIVATE SECTOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL STRATEGIES 19 Techno-crime prevention: the role of the private sector and its partnerships with the public sector 356 Jaeyong Choi and Brandon Dulisse 20 The jigsaw initiative: theoretical and practical considerations for preventing harm from extreme and extremist content online 372 Neil Shortland and Presley McGarry 21 The prevention and control of online consumer fraud 392 Catarina Cardoso Fonseca, Samuel Moreira and Inês Guedes 22 Managing cyber-risk in offender populations 408 Art Bowker 23 The prosecution, conviction, and sentencing of techno-criminals: the limits of international cooperation 422 Sean M. Perry and Pauline K. Brennan Index
£210.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook of Computational Social Science
£305.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook of Social Computing
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Autonomous Vehicles: Tracing the Locus of
Book SynopsisDelving deep into the emerging international and federal statutory and legislative developments surrounding Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technologies, Atilla Kasap assesses whether current motor vehicle regulations, liability law and the liability insurance system are fit for purpose today and in the future.Making a significant and novel contribution to the field, this cutting-edge book comprehensively surveys the promises offered by AVs, including radically reduced road incidents, and economic, environmental and societal benefits, alongside the significant regulatory and liability problems the technology faces. Kasap finds that, as AVs are one of the most significant and profound technological advances of the 21st century, relying on machine learning and pattern recognition systems to function, the current liability regime surrounding them requires a rethinking. Critically analysing the tort liability of AVs, chapters deconstruct and reconstruct a tort law regime for AVs, ultimately solving how policymakers should approach the challenges faced in regulating and enacting AV legislation.Interdisciplinary in approach, it will prove invaluable to students and scholars of computer science and law, particularly those studying AI and robotics law, and those interested in the regulation and governance of AV technology. It also offers vital tools for policymakers seeking concrete principles on which to define potential laws and regulations for AV technology.Trade Review‘Kasap provides an excellent legal analysis of autonomous vehicles based on artificial intelligence (AI). The obvious concern around autonomous vehicles (AVs) is safety. Kasap cites accident statistics to show that AI has the potential to reduce the number of accidents caused by human mistakes and negligence. But before AI-based autopilots become a perfect system, issues will arise. Kasap reviews the legal context today and directions for the near future, discussing the most significant areas of law affecting AVs, considering both international law and US federal statutes (the tort law regime) and including in-depth discussion of liability laws and liability insurance. This analysis is applicable not only to AVs. The technologies that enable autonomy in cars are foundational in many other fields, e.g., robotics, manufacturing systems, aviation/drones, and various military applications. Any cyber-physical system that uses sensors, networks, computing, and a form of movement can be subject to the laws discussed here. Indeed, “malfunction theory” can extend to all kinds of computation with complex algorithms. The text is well referenced and will be invaluable for legal professionals specializing in cases involving AI. Technologists involved in designing and building autonomous systems will also find it useful because Kasap employs language that can reach readers without a legal background.’ -- J. Brzezinski, CHOICE‘For anyone interested in any aspect of autonomous vehicles, from the history of efforts to replace drivers, captains, and pilots, to the technology that will enable that replacement, to the legal reforms required to enable the use of autonomous vehicles, to the disruptive effects they will have on the tort system, this is a comprehensive, readable, and well-constructed source for that information.’ -- Michael D. Green, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law, US‘An incisive book addressing issues of liability arising from the use of autonomous vehicles as well as the appropriate timing and scope of regulation in this area. Kasap offers an original and insightful analysis of the current legal and regulatory framework in the US that is up to date with the latest relevant technological developments and scholarly contributions.’ -- Apostolos Chronopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to regulatory and liability-related questions posed by autonomous vehicles PART I A BRIEF PRIMER ON AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (AVs) 1. Paving the way: defining the “autonomy” and “automated” of autonomous and automated vehicles 2. The historical development of AVs 3. Autonomous vehicle technology and the state of the art PART II STATUTORY AND REGULATORY REFORMS OF AV TECHNOLOGY:INTERNATIONAL AND U.S. FEDERAL APPROACHES 4. Introduction to Part II 5. International approach 6. Federal law of the United States of America 7. Concluding remarks PART III DECONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING A TORT LAW REGIME FOR AVs 8. Introduction to Part III 9. Setting the scene: which entity is “the manufacturer”? 10. Strict product liability 11. Negligence 12. Misrepresentation 13. Proving defect and negligence 14. The case for owners’ liability 15. The possible role of the insurance industry Conclusive remarks on the interaction between law and autonomous vehicles References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial
Book SynopsisAs artificial intelligence (AI) continues to seep into more areas of society and culture, critical social perspectives on its technologies are more urgent than ever before. Bringing together state-of-the-art research from experienced scholars across disciplines, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of critical AI studies. Moving beyond narrow technological definitions of AI, the Handbook provides readers with an in-depth understanding of its social, ethical and political implications. Chapters cover a broad range of timely issues related to AI, including the risk of bias and discrimination in its systems, its impact on democracy and governance, concerns surrounding privacy and surveillance, and the use of its technologies in decision-making processes. Underscoring the urgent need for deeper critical analyses of AI, the Handbook constitutes a major contribution to the ongoing discussion about what critical studies of AI can entail, what questions they may pose, and what concepts they can offer to address them. Rich in theoretical and empirical analysis, this cutting-edge Handbook will prove an invaluable resource for students and scholars of digital sociology and science and technology studies. Its extensive coverage of this emerging field will also appeal to practitioners, developers and policymakers seeking orientation in the complex social and political dynamics of AI.Trade Review‘AI is not only technology; it also means power. In times when AI ethics is often closely aligned with big tech and when AI teams are expelled or undervalued, a critical view of AI is much needed. Addressing a diversity of aspects from political economy to sociotechnological imaginaries and activism, this Handbook offers a range of critical scholarship on AI that shows how AI is entangled with the social structures and power relations in society. A welcome antidote to the ideologies of technological optimism, technodeterminism, and technosolutionism, and great support for the critical and interdisciplinary project of developing technology that contributes to, rather than undermines, conviviality and the common good.’ -- Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna, Austria‘AI has proliferated in everyday life. Virtual assistants such as Alexa and Siri are present on our phones and in our homes. More and more people use robotic lawnmowers and robot hoovers. There are bots on the Internet that post, comment, and like. Robots and AI have changed the world of work. ChatGPT has given us an impression of how online search could look like in the future. The world’s largest military forces are investing heavily into the development of AI. We need to better understand what impacts AI has on society. For doing so, we need critical theories and analysis of AI. The Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence provides 75 chapters that help us to better understand what it means to critically study AI in society. This book is excellent reading for everyone interested in AI & society.’ -- Christian Fuchs, Paderborn University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introducing critical studies of artificial intelligence 1 Simon Lindgren PART I AI AND CRITICAL THEORY: CONCEPTUAL DISCUSSIONS 2 Recursive power: AI governmentality and technofutures 21 Fenwick McKelvey and Jonathan Roberge 3 The danger of smart ideologies: counter-hegemonic intelligence and antagonistic machines 33 Peter Bloom 4 The becoming of AI: a critical perspective on the contingent formation of AI 43 Anna Jobin and Christian Katzenbach 5 Artificial intelligence and the problem of radical uncertainty 56 Robert Holton 6 Trading human autonomy for technological automation 67 Simona Chiodo 7 Automation anxiety: a critical history – the apparently odd recurrence of debates about computation, AI and labour 79 Caroline Bassett and Ben Roberts 8 AI, critical knowledge and subjectivity 94 Eran Fisher 9 Habits and habitus in algorithmic culture 108 Stefka Hristova 10 Algorithms and emerging forms of intimacy 117 Tanja Wiehn 11 It’s incomprehensible: on machine learning and decoloniality 128 Abeba Birhane and Zeerak Talat 12 Pragmatism and AI: a critical approach 141 Johnathan Flowers 13 Digital humanism and AI 152 Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Hans-Jörg Kreowski 14 Beyond AI solutionism: toward a multi-disciplinary approach to artificial intelligence in society 163 Simon Lindgren and Virginia Dignum 15 Artificial intelligence and social memory: towards the cyborgian remembrance of an advancing mnemo-technic 173 Samuel Merrill 16 Making sense of AI-influenced geopolitics using STS theories 187 Arun Teja Polcumpally PART II AI IMAGINARIES AND DISCOURSES 17 Bothering the binaries: unruly AI futures of hauntings and hope at the limit 199 Amanda Lagerkvist and Bo Reimer 18 Imaginaries of artificial intelligence 209 Vanessa Richter, Christian Katzenbach and Mike Schäfer 19 Language of algorithms: agency, metaphors and deliberations in AI discourses 224 Kaisla Kajava and Nitin Sawhney 20 Technological failures, controversies and the myth of AI 237 Andrea Ballatore and Simone Natale 21 Marking the lines of artificial intelligence 245 Mario Verdicchio 22 The critical potential of science fiction 254 Miroslav Kotásek 23 A critical review of news framing of artificial intelligence 266 Ching-Hua Chuan 24 Media representations of artificial intelligence: surveying the field 277 Saba Rebecca Brause, Jing Zeng, Mike S. Schäfer and Christian Katzenbach 25 Educational imaginaries of AI 289 Lina Rahm PART III THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AI: DATAFICATION AND SURVEILLANCE 26 Critical AI studies meets critical political economy 302 Pieter Verdegem 27 The industry of automating automation: the political economy of the AI industry 312 James Steinhoff 28 AI, class societies and the social life of reason 323 Scott Timcke 29 Re-imagining democracy: AI’s challenge to political theory 333 Guy Paltieli 30 AI as automated inequality: statistics, surveillance and discrimination 343 Mike Zajko 31 Digital tracking and infrastructural power 354 Stine Lomborg, Rasmus Helles and Signe Sophus Lai 32 AI and the everyday political economy of global health 367 Michael Strange and Jason Tucker 33 Addressing global inequity in AI development 378 Chinasa T. Okolo PART IV AI TRANSPARENCY, ETHICS AND REGULATION 34 A critical approach to AI ethics 391 Rosalie A. Waelen 35 Power and inequalities: lifting the veil of ignorance in AI ethics 402 Anais Resseguier 36 Barriers to regulating AI: critical observations from a fractured field 413 Ashlin Lee, Will Orr, Walter G. Johnson, Jenna Imad Harb and Kathryn Henne 37 Why artificial intelligence is not transparent: a critical analysis of its three opacity layers 424 Manuel Carabantes 38 How to critique the GDPR: when data protection is turned against the working class 435 Carl Öhman 39 Four facets of AI transparency 445 Stefan Larsson, Kashyap Haresamudram, Charlotte Högberg, Yucong Lao, Axel Nyström, Kasia Söderlund and Fredrik Heintz 40 An inclusive approach to ascribing responsibility in robot ethics 456 Janina Loh 41 Machines and morals: moral reasoning ability might indicate how close AI is to attaining true equivalence with human intelligence 470 Sukanto Bhattacharya 42 A women’s rights perspective on safe artificial intelligence inside the United Nations 481 Eleonore Fournier-Tombs 43 From ethics to politics: changing approaches to AI education 493 Randy Connolly 44 The transparency of reason: ethical issues of AI art 504 Dejan Grba PART V AI BIAS, NORMATIVITY AND DISCRIMINATION 45 Learning about human behavior? The transcendental status of grammars of action in the processing of HCI data 516 Andreas Beinsteiner 46 Algorithmic moderation: contexts, perceptions, and misconceptions 528 João Gonçalves and Ina Weber 47 Algorithmic exclusion 538 Kendra Albert and Maggie Delano 48 Prospective but disconnected partners: AI-informed criminal risk prediction 549 Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Fernando Avila 49 Power asymmetries, epistemic imbalances and barriers to knowledge: the (im)possibility of knowing algorithms 563 Ana Pop Stefanija 50 Gender, race and the invisible labor of artificial intelligence 573 Laila Brown 51 Machine learning normativity as performativity 584 Tyler Reigeluth 52 Queer eye on AI: binary systems versus fluid identities 595 Karin Danielsson, Andrea Aler Tubella, Evelina Liliequist and Coppélie Cocq 53 Representational silence and racial biases in commercial image recognition services in the context of religion 607 Anton Berg and Katja Valaskivi 54 Social media as classification systems: procedural normative choices in user profiling 619 Severin Engelmann and Orestis Papakyriakopoulos 55 From hate speech recognition to happiness indexing: critical issues in datafication of emotion in text mining 631 Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Juho Pääkkönen and Emily Öhman PART VI POLITICS AND ACTIVISM IN AI 56 Democratic friction in speech governance by AI 643 Niva Elkin-Koren and Maayan Perel 57 Automating empathy: overview, technologies, criticism 656 Andrew McStay and Vian Bakir 58 Ideational tensions in the Swedish automation debate: initial findings 670 Kalle Eriksson 59 En-countering AI as algorhythmic practice 682 Shintaro Miyazaki 60 Introducing political ecology of Creative-Ai 691 Andre Holzapfel PART VII AI AND AUTOMATION IN SOCIETY 61 Automated decision-making in the public sector 705 Vanja Carlsson, Malin Rönnblom and Andreas Öjehag-Pettersson 62 The landscape of social bot research: a critical appraisal 716 Harry Yaojun Yan and Kai-Cheng Yang 63 Introducing robots and AI in human service organizations: what are the implications for employees and service users? 726 Susanne Tafvelin, Jan Hjelte, Robyn Schimmer, Maria Forsgren, Vicenc Torra and Andreas Stenling 64 Critically analyzing autonomous materialities 737 Mikael Wiberg 65 Exploring critical dichotomies of AI and the Rule of Law 749 Markus Naarttijärvi 66 The use of AI in domestic security practices 763 Jens Hälterlein 67 Methodological reflections on researching the sociotechnical imaginaries of AI in policing 773 Carrie B. Sanders and Janet Chan 68 Emergence of artificial intelligence in health care: a critical review 783 Annika M. Svensson and Fabrice Jotterand 69 The politics of imaginary technologies: innovation ecosystems as political choreographies for promoting care robotics in health care 793 Jaana Parviainen 70 AI in education: landscape, vision and critical ethical challenges in the 21st century 804 Daniel S. Schiff and Rinat Rosenberg-Kima 71 Critically assessing AI/ML for cultural heritage: potentials and challenges 815 Anna Foka, Lina Eklund, Anders Sundnes Løvlie and Gabriele Griffin 72 AI ethnography 826 Anne Dippel and Andreas Sudmann 73 Automating social theory 845 Ralph Schroeder 74 Artificial intelligence and scientific problem choice at the nexus of industry and academia 859 Steve G. Hoffman 75 Myths, techno solutionism and artificial intelligence: reclaiming AI materiality and its massive environmental costs 869 Benedetta Brevini 76 AI governance and civil society: the need for critical engagement 878 Megan LePere-Schloop and Sandy Zook Index 891
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on International Migration and
Book SynopsisThis forward-looking Research Handbook showcases cutting-edge research on the relationship between international migration and digital technology. It sheds new light on the interlinkages between digitalisation and migration patterns and processes globally, capturing the latest research technologies and data sources.Featuring international migration in all facets from the migration of tech sector specialists through to refugee displacement, leading contributors offer strategic insights into the future of migration and mobility. Covering diverse geographies and using interdisciplinary approaches, contributions provide new analysis of migration futures. A discrete chapter on digital technology and COVID-19 global pandemic offers reflections on how migration and mobility are being profoundly reshaped by the global pandemic. The practical applications and limitations of digital technology in relation to international migration are also highlighted and supported with key case studies. Analytical yet accessible, this Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in the fields of migration and digital technology, while also being of benefit to policy makers and civil society actors specialising in migration.Trade Review‘A pioneer Research Handbook in a burgeoning field mapping the multifaceted interlinkages between international migration and digital technology. This edited volume fills a huge gap in the current literature, providing the state of the art and exploring future avenues to better understand the profound impact of digital transformations upon the processes, patterns and politics of migration. While offering a rich array of topics, perspectives and disciplines, this Research Handbook illuminates the complexities and controversies surrounding digital technology as a facilitator and a disruptor of international migration. The reader will find insightful analyses of many topical issues, including the use of digital technology in migration research and analysis, its role as a tool of empowerment and agency of migrants across the migration cycle, the digitalization and automation of border control and population surveillance, and the spread of disinformation in the public debate. A must-read for anyone interested in the cutting-edge issues associated with migration and digital technology.’ -- Vincent Chetail, Graduate Institute, Switzerland‘This book is a must-read for everyone interested in the intersection between migration and digitalization. As the volume of data grows from expanding forms of technology, the implications for understanding migration are wide-ranging. Impressive in scope, this book offers us a lens for examining how data-driven technologies are reshaping migration in fundamental ways.’ -- Katharine M. Donato, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, US‘This Research Handbook is a major advance in the study of the relationship between international migration and digital technology. Not only does it powerfully synthesize an emerging and hugely important field of research, but it also establishes new agendas for future enquiry.’ -- Andrew Geddes, European University Institute, Italy'This is a much-needed Research Handbook on how the rapid evolution of digital technologies is changing international migration pathways and policies. Contributions to this volume highlight the challenges of advanced technologies for human rights violations, as well as the possibilities they open up for migrant connectivity across time and space. A must-have for students, researchers and media and policy professionals working in this field.' -- Anna Triandafyllidou, Toronto Metropolitan University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1 International migration and digital technology: an overview 1 Marie McAuliffe PART I UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION PATTERNS AND PROCESSES: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MIGRATION RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS 2 Digital migration studies 15 Koen Leurs and Saskia Witteborn 3 Migration stocks and flows: data concepts, availability and comparability 29 Dilek Yildiz and Guy Abel 4 The roles and limitations of data science in understanding international migration flows and human mobility 42 Marie McAuliffe and Adam Sawyer 5 The practice and politics of migration data visualization 58 William Allen 6 Migration networks: applications of network analysis to macroscale migration patterns 70 Valentin Danchev and Mason A. Porter PART II DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE ACT OF MOVING: (IM)MOBILITY, BARRIERS AND BORDERS 7 Navigating borders/navigating networks: migration, technology and social capital 92 Farah Azhar, Sara Vannini, Bryce Clayton Newell and Ricardo Gomez 8 Mobile data challenges for human mobility analysis and humanitarian response 107 Albert Ali Salah 9 Migrant smuggling and ICT: research advances, prospects and challenges 123 Georgios Papanicolaou, Parisa Diba and Georgios A. Antonopoulos 10 Robots and refugees: the human rights impacts of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making in migration 134 Petra Molnar 11 Drones and border control: an examination of state and non-state actor use of UAVs along borders 152 Rey Koslowski PART III INTEGRATION, REINTEGRATION AND MIGRANTS’ (DIGITAL) (VIRTUAL) (TRANSNATIONAL) IDENTITIES 12 Migrant inclusion 4.0: the role of mobile tech 167 Céline Bauloz 13 Online technology for promoting the inclusion of refugees into higher education: a systematic review of current approaches and developments 182 Franziska Reinhardt, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Roland Happ and Sarah Nell-Müller 14 Using ICTs to be here and not ‘here’: African migrants and religious transnationalism 195 Henrietta Nyamnjoh 15 ICTs and transnational householding: the double burden of polymedia connectivity for international ‘study mothers’ 207 Yang Wang and Sun Sun Lim 16 In support of return and reintegration? A roadmap for a responsible use of technology 220 Nassim Majidi, Camille Kasavan and G. Harindranath PART IV CONNECTIVITY AND MIGRATION: TRENDS AND IMPACTS 17 Technology for engaging and empowering migrant workers 236 Angela Kintominas, Laurie Berg and Bassina Farbenblum 18 Mobile money and financial inclusion of migrants in sub-Saharan Africa 251 Adrian Kitimbo 19 The gender dimensions of technology in the context of migration and displacement: a critical overview 267 Ibrahim L. Saïd 20 Mobility of tech professionals in the world economy: the case of Indian entrepreneurialism in the United States 284 Binod Khadria and Ratnam Mishra 21 Transnational families and technology: trends, impacts and futures 300 Jacqueline Bhabha, Abhishek Bhatia and Sam Peisch PART V MIGRATION, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC DEBATES 22 How online disinformation and far-right activism is shaping public debates on immigration 316 Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter 23 The role of networked publics in immigration debates 330 Markus Ojala 24 Using new media platforms for human rights advocacy in real-time: people seeking asylum in Nauru and Papua New Guinea 344 Cecilia Cannon and Shaminda Kanapathi PART VI DIGITAL MIGRATION FUTURES 25 Technological transformations in migration processes: spatiality, temporality and agency 361 Huub Dijstelbloem 26 Migration forecasting using new technology and methods 376 Arkadiusz Wiśniowski 27 Ahead of the policy curve: migrants harnessing tech to survive 393 Emre Eren Korkmaz 28 Migration, mobility and digital technology in a post-COVID-19 world: initial reflections on transformations underway 406 Marie McAuliffe and Jenna Blower Index 423
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Creativity, Incentive and Reward: An Economic
Book SynopsisCreativity is crucial to the Information Age economy. It is the basis of production in the cultural industries. In this excellent book, Ruth Towse provides an analysis of the interaction between creativity, the law, and markets for cultural goods and services.Copyright law establishes property rights that create economic incentives to cultural production and Ruth Towse uses her analysis to draw conclusions about policy on copyright. This unique study is of interest to a range of disciplines in economics, law, cultural studies and management.Trade Review'The different cultural policies of the UK and the Netherlands provide a wonderful backdrop for conclusions for cultural policy.' -- The Economic Journal'. . . this is a fascinating and enlightening piece of work. At a time when copyright law, business models in the cultural industry and cultural policy are all under pressure and greatly affected by technological change, this is a valuable and challenging work that deserves to be widely read.' -- Helen Dakin, Copyright Reporter'. . . well written, clear and informative. It contains many references that demonstrate the deep knowledge of the field that the author has acquired through her own research and her remarkable work at the head of the Journal of Cultural Economics. She especially provides a very clear review of the literature on the economics of copyright. . . . this review will become a reference that can't be ignored by researchers interested in copyright. . . Towse opens avenues for further research and also stresses those questions that can help professionals better understand cultural regulations.' -- Francoise Benhamou, Journal of Cultural Economics'Ruth Towse's book provides an easily accessible introduction to this field and contains much useful argument. It also stands as testament to the productive and continuing scholarly career of one of the best known figures in contemporary cultural economics.' -- David Throsby, Journal of Economic Literature'This is a most interesting treatise on a very topical subject of economic and legal policy . . . this book offers a wealth of intriguing research ideas and some interesting, if not highly rigorous, analyses of an important area of public policy.' -- Mary Kokoski, Monthly Labor Review'Ruth Towse's excellent book, Creativity, Incentive and Reward is a beacon in this confused theoretical and policy mish-mash. The book, which brings together Towse's work in copyright and cultural economics over the last decade, is thoroughly researched, analytically satisfying and beautifully written. . . copyright scholars owe a debt of gratitude to Towse.' -- Fiona Macmillan, Copyright World'This is an important work on compensation of the artist and the incentives for artistic activity. The explosive evolution of the technology of communications raises particularly pressing issues in this arena and poses new threats to remuneration of the artist. The discussion of copyright in this book provides vital information for analysis of this issue. The book is informative, intelligent and well written - precisely what is needed for understanding of its subject.' -- William J. Baumol, New York University and Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Cultural Economics, Copyright and Cultural Industries 1. Creativity, Incentives and Rewards: Cultural Economics and Copyright Law 2. The Cultural Industries, Copyright and Cultural Economics Part II: Rewards to Artists 3. Economics of Artists’ Labour Markets 4. The Earnings of Singers: An Economic Analysis Part III: Copyright Incentives and Rewards 5. The Value of Performers’ Rights: An Economic Analysis (written with Millie Taylor) 6. Copyright and Economic Incentives: An Application to Performers’ Rights in the Music Industry Part IV: Copyright and Cultural Policy for the Information Age 7. Copyright, Risk and the Artist: An Economic Approach to Policy for Artists 8. Incentives and Access to Information: Economic Aspects of Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright in the Digital World 9. Conclusions and Implications for Cultural Policy Epilogue References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Technology, Globalization and Poverty
Book SynopsisThis significant book presents an original examination of the theoretical and empirical interactions between globalization, technology and poverty. Jeffrey James studies the effect of information technology on patterns of globalization and explores how such patterns can be altered to reduce the growing global divide between rich and poor nations.The author first illustrates how the impact of information technology on globalization can be conceptualized in terms of transactions costs, product proliferation and mechanisms of cumulative causation. He finds that globalization tends to benefit a relatively small group of rich individuals, firms and countries. Consequently he suggests policy measures through which information technology can be used to lessen, rather than exacerbate, the digital divide. He goes on to argue that even if the proposed measures are reasonably successful, considerable attention will still need to be paid to conventional technologies and, in particular, to the promotion of technologies that will benefit the poorest groups in the developing nations. Finally, the author looks in detail at technology policy in sub-Saharan Africa, a region which has profited least from the benefits provided by new technologies such as email and the internet.Technology, Globalization and Poverty will be essential reading for academics interested in technological change, economic development, and the relationship between the two. Policymakers in both developed and developing countries will also draw great value from this work.Trade Review'. . . this monograph by Jeffrey James is most welcome as it focuses on one of the key drivers, technology, and one of the key consequences, poverty, and thus engages with the important policy debates on the "digital divide". . . the book is concise, clearly written and contains a wealth of detailed empirical evidence regarding the nature of global poverty and pro-poor modes of technical integration in the global economy.' -- Corinne Nativel, Economic Geography Research GroupTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Conceptualizing the Influence of Information Technology on Globalization 1. Information Technology, Transaction Costs and Globalization 2. Product Proliferation, Comparative Advantage and Developing Countries 3. Information Technology, Cumulative Causation and Patterns of Globalization in the Third World Part II: Pro-Poor Modes of Technical Integration into the Global Economy 4. Pro-Poor Modes of Technical Integration into the Global Economy 5. Bridging the Digital Divide by Means of Low-Cost Information Technologies Part III: Technology Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa 6. Aid Reform in African Industry: The Technological Dimension 7. Trait-Making for Labour-Intensive Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Living on the Fault Line: Managing for
Book SynopsisLiving on the Fault Line is the long awaited new book from Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, two bestselling works that have helped guide the high-tech revolution. Moore focuses on the most important business question for the early twenty-first century: the age of the Internet. How can companies living on the fault line of rapid, disruptive, technological change be managed successfully? -Old management truths are dead - Twentieth century business models must be replaced - The dot.com revolution is changing every aspect of business - Blue chip companies are under direct assault from new companies that nobody had even heard of last year Living on the Fault Line will reset the management agenda in the age of the Internet and is essential reading for all companies both old and new. * Simultaneous publication with HarperCollins US release * Guaranteed Business Book of the Month slots with key retailers * Major PR coverage across the media including FT, The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Observer * Massive direct mail promotion to leading FT 500 multinationals * Crossing the Chasm has sold over 50,000 copies worldwide * Huge internet marketing campaignTrade Review"A readable book about an important subject." (Ambassador, December 2000) "a step-by-step approach" (Gulf Business, December 2001)Table of ContentsCONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION THE AGE OF THE INTERNET SHAREHOLDER VALUE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE TRIAGE BUILDING TO LAST EPILOGUE INDEX
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Location, Travel and Information Technology:
Book SynopsisThis important book collects together Peter Nijkamp's work on spatial-economic markets, particularly housing and labour markets, and the increasing impact of information technology on mobility and the location of firms, residents and job seekers.The first part deals with applied modelling and theoretical advances in housing market dynamics and research. The papers address issues such as the implications of household dynamics for relocation decisions, migration movements in Europe, and the driving forces for migration decisions of ethnic groups. The second part focuses on the spatial labour market, dealing with recruitment channel and search channel choices by job seekers and firms, vacancy durations and the opportunities offered by ethnic entrepreneurship for improving the chances of ethnic groups. The third part comprises an analysis of spatial mobility flows and interaction patterns and the final part emphasises the scope and effect of information technology in transport. This includes the effect of real-time information on the behaviour of car drivers, the effect of telematics devices on public transport users, the importance of telematics for the freight transport sector and the adoption mechanisms of ICT users and their related policy implications.This collection will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in the housing and labour markets and the impact on both of developments in IT and transport.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: Housing Markets and Migration 1. A Household Life Cycle Model for Residential Relocation Behaviour 2. Spatial Moving Behaviour of Two-Earner Households 3. Residential Search and Mobility in a Housing Market Equilibrium Model 4. International Migration in Europe: Overcoming Isolation and Distance Friction 5. Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Migration: A Survey from Developing Countries Part II: Labour Markets and Firms 6. Recruitment Channel Use and Applicant Arrival: An Empirical Analysis 7. Search Channel Use and Firms’ Recruitment Behaviour 8. Vacancy Dynamics and Labour Market Efficiency in the Dutch Labor Market 9. On the Endogeneity of Output in Dynamic Labour-Demand Models 10. In Search of Ethnic Entrepreneurship Opportunities in the City: A Comparative Policy Study Part III: Mobility and Spatial Interaction 11. Job Moving, Residential Moving, and Commuting: A Search Perspective 12. Time Pioneers and Travel Behavior: An Investigation into the Viability of ‘Slow Motion’ 13. Analysis of Travellers’ Satisfaction with Transport Chains 14. Estimation of Alonso’s Theory of Movements by Means of Instrumental Variables 15. A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms and Logit Models in Spatial Networks Part IV: Transport and Information Technology 16. Variable Message Signs and Radio Traffic Information: An Integrated Empirical Analysis of Drivers’ Route Choice Behaviour 17. Advanced Telematics for Travel Decisions: A Quantitative Analysis of the Stopwatch Project in Southampton 18. Telematics and Freight Transport: A Dutch Case Study 19. Policy Support Strategies for the Adoption of Information and Communications Technology Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Internationalizing the Internet: The Co-evolution
Book SynopsisThis compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the Internet's adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over competing standards and methods for achieving a global information infrastructure. The author demonstrates how the current Internet system was not the only possible choice, nor the best data network in terms of technological and economic performance. It is therefore vital, he argues, to understand the way in which different political and economic interests have helped shaped the Internet and allowed it to overcome rival technologies. Issues of particular importance include the role of negotiations among different social groups in the design of the Internet as well as the influence of US promotion. The author also examines patterns of growth and pervasiveness of the Internet between different regions and countries, providing new evidence on the factors influencing the extent of the 'digital divide'. Using econometric models, he goes on to identify the features of the co-evolution of the Internet and other sub-systems within countries, and highlights the most interesting features of their local and global interplay. Researchers and academics involved with science and technology policy, industrial and corporate change, and the information society will welcome this insightful, original and highly pertinent book. It will also be of value for anyone with an interest in how the backbone of the digital economy was formed.Trade Review'. . . Kim's book provides both the novice and the more experienced researcher with a very wide range of sources as well as an in-depth analysis of those sources. . . Kim's book is a worthwhile and substantial addition to literature about the ways in which the internet is changing as it moves through the world.' -- Sally Wyatt, Technovation'The global but uneven spread of the Internet is giving rise to concerns about inequality and what should be done about it. There are few systematic studies of the distinctive ways that the Internet is becoming embedded or localised in different countries around the world. This book offers an insightful analysis of the social and political history of a contested technology design process that is continuing to shape the Internet system as we encounter it today.' -- Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'This excellent volume will be a first-rate addition to the literature. It is original, thorough, well-written and well-organised. The notes to each chapter are particularly good and together with the extensive list of references make it such a comprehensive study that it should become a standard reference book on the Internet. But its greatest merit is in the analysis made so clearly and brilliantly in the eight chapters.' -- Christopher Freeman, Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK and Maastricht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Socioeconomic Design of Technological Systems 3. Economics and Politics of Telecommunications Systems 4. The Design of Data Network Systems: Competing and Collaborating Technologies 5. The Evolution of the Internet System 6. Internationalization and Digital Divide 7. Co-Evolution: Localization of the Internet System 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Book SynopsisManuel Castells - one of the world's pre-eminent social scientists - has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies around the world in terms of the critical role of electronic communication networks in business, everyday life, public services, social interaction and politics. The contributors demonstrate that the network society is the new form of social organization in the Information age, replacing the Industrial society.The book analyzes processes of technological transformation in interaction with social culture in different cultural and institutional contexts: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Finland, Russia, China, India, Canada, and Catalonia. The topics examined include business productivity, global financial markets, cultural identity, the uses of the Internet in education and health, the anti-globalization movement, political processes, media and identity, and public policies to guide technological development. Taken together these studies show that the network society adopts very different forms, depending on the cultural and institutional environments in which it evolves.The Network Society is an outstanding and original volume of direct interest in academia - particularly in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, and business schools - as well as for policymakers engaged in technological policy and economic development. Business and management experts will also discover much of value to them within this book.Trade Review‘The Network Society stimulates the reader to think about the network society in an innovative way. Because of its analytical aims and a well-balanced presentation of empirical findings and theoretical insights coming from a remarkable variety of authors, this is a book that might become a model for collaborative research in the years to come, as well as an invaluable reference for teaching and research on networking as an organizational form.' -- International Sociology - Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents: Part I: The Theory of the Network Society Part II: The Cultural and Institutional Diversity of the Network Society Part III: The Network Economy Part IV: Sociability and Social Structure in the Age of the Internet Part V: The Internet in the Public Interest Part VI: Networked Social Movements and Informational Politics Part VII: The Culture of the Network Society Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economics of the Digital Society
Book SynopsisThis important book presents a unique body of research into the economics of the digital society. It questions how modern economies have been transformed as a result of digital goods and markets, and explores the policy implications and challenges of this revolution. Luc Soete and Bas ter Weel have assembled leading economists and social scientists to provide an invaluable insight into the influence of the digital society in the core fields of economics. They offer a comprehensive overview of the changes that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have brought about in our analysis and understanding of society, focusing particularly upon welfare economics, networks, the diffusion of new businesses and new forms of entrepreneurship, the auctioning of licences, the much-debated role of intellectual property rights and the emergence of free software in the open-source movement. There are however a number of more indirect economic developments influencing the technological society that are also taken into consideration. These include the increased work pressure and new diseases affecting the workforce, the economics of digital content, the effects of computer use on the wage structure, the impact of ICTs on goods and labour markets, and the macroeconomic consequences of ICT investment in terms of knowledge accumulation and economic growth. Distinctive and comprehensive in its coverage of the critical issues associated with the digital economy, this book will appeal to academics, policy makers and students alike.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction and Summary 2. World-wide-welfare: A Micro-economic Analysis of ‘The New Economy’ 3. Network Formation, Innovation and IT Use 4. Adoption and Diffusion of e-Business and the Role of Network Effects 5. Radio Spectrum Fees as Determinants of Market Structure: The Consequences of European 3G Licensing 6. Does the New Economy Need all the Old IPR Institutions and Still More? 7. Free Software Developers: Who, How and Why 8. Technological Change, Job Stress and Burnout 9. Some Economics of Digital Content 10. How Computerization has Changed the Labour Market: A Review of the Evidence and a New Perspective 11. ICT and Optimal Unemployment Benefits when Pissarides meets Dixit–Stiglitz 12. Unleashing Animal Spirits: Investment in ICT and Economic Growth 13. The Impact of ICT Investment on Knowledge Accumulation and Economic Growth 14. A Digital Society for Us All: ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Policy Reflections Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Book SynopsisManuel Castells - one of the world's pre-eminent social scientists - has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies around the world in terms of the critical role of electronic communication networks in business, everyday life, public services, social interaction and politics. The contributors demonstrate that the network society is the new form of social organization in the Information age, replacing the Industrial society.The book analyzes processes of technological transformation in interaction with social culture in different cultural and institutional contexts: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Finland, Russia, China, India, Canada, and Catalonia. The topics examined include business productivity, global financial markets, cultural identity, the uses of the Internet in education and health, the anti-globalization movement, political processes, media and identity, and public policies to guide technological development. Taken together these studies show that the network society adopts very different forms, depending on the cultural and institutional environments in which it evolves.The Network Society is an outstanding and original volume of direct interest in academia - particularly in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, and business schools - as well as for policymakers engaged in technological policy and economic development. Business and management experts will also discover much of value to them within this book.Trade Review‘The Network Society stimulates the reader to think about the network society in an innovative way. Because of its analytical aims and a well-balanced presentation of empirical findings and theoretical insights coming from a remarkable variety of authors, this is a book that might become a model for collaborative research in the years to come, as well as an invaluable reference for teaching and research on networking as an organizational form.' -- International Sociology - Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents: Part I: The Theory of the Network Society Part II: The Cultural and Institutional Diversity of the Network Society Part III: The Network Economy Part IV: Sociability and Social Structure in the Age of the Internet Part V: The Internet in the Public Interest Part VI: Networked Social Movements and Informational Politics Part VII: The Culture of the Network Society Index
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc E-mail and Behavioral Changes: Uses and Misuses
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the causes of spam, the behaviors associated to the generation of and the exposure to spam, as well as the protection strategies. The new behaviors associated to electronic communications are identified and commented. Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the number of e-mail and textual messages in your inbox, be it on your laptop, your Smartphone or your PC? This book should help you in finding a wealth of answers, tools and tactics to better surf the ICT wave in the professional environment, and develop proper protection strategies to mitigate your exposure to spam in any form.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Preface xi Introduction xv Chapter 1. Electronic Mail 1 1.1. Electronic mail, what is it exactly? 1 1.2. The most used communication tool in the professional world 2 1.2.1. E-mail or telephone? 2 1.2.2. A growth that is not slowing down 3 1.2.3. A perfectly adapted tool for a business in touch 4 1.3. Characteristics and beginning of misuse 4 1.3.1. A remote and asynchronous means of communication 5 1.3.2. Almost instantaneous and interactive 6 1.3.3. Textual 7 1.3.4. Ubiquitous and mobile 8 1.3.5. Which allows numerous messages to be sent 8 1.3.6. On to the storing and archiving of messages 9 1.4. E-mail versus other communication tools 10 1.5. The structure of e-mail and its susceptibility to misuse 12 1.5.1. Structure 12 1.5.2. Envelope and body of the message: two possible targets 14 1.6. Other forms of electronic communication, other flaws 15 1.6.1. Instant messaging 15 1.6.2. Micro-blogging 16 1.6.3. Social networks 17 1.7. Conclusion 17 Chapter 2. From Role to Identity 19 2.1. Roles, boundaries and transitions 19 2.1.1. Spatial and temporal boundaries 20 2.2. Roles 21 2.2.1. Definition 21 2.2.2. Role boundaries 23 2.2.3. Transitions between roles 26 2.3. Identities 28 2.4. Conclusion 30 Chapter 3. Roles and the Digital World 33 3.1. When electronic communications disrupt space-time 33 3.1.1. The transformation of space 34 3.1.2. The transformation of time 34 3.1.3. The transformation of distance 35 3.1.4. Mobility and ubiquity 37 3.2. Role transformation 38 3.2.1. Role boundaries 38 3.2.2. Flexibility 38 3.2.3. Permeability 41 3.2.4. Role separation 41 3.2.5. Transitions between roles 42 3.3. Conclusion 43 Chapter 4. Challenges in Communication 45 4.1. Interpersonal communication: a subtle tool 45 4.2. Misunderstanding in communication 46 4.2.1. Sources of misunderstanding 47 4.2.2. The absence of an operating communication channel 47 4.2.3. The absence of a common vocabulary 48 4.2.4. Exclusive information context 48 4.2.5. Situations involving incomprehension 49 4.2.6. Distance communication 49 4.2.7. Asynchronous communication 50 4.2.8. Heterogeneous competence domains or levels 50 4.2.9. Man–machine communication 50 4.2.10. E-mail: the accumulation of obstacles to comprehension 50 4.3. From misunderstanding to a lack of respect 51 4.4. A challenge for digital managers: communicating with the absent other 53 4.4.1. A lower volume of communication 53 4.4.2. A drop in communication quality 54 4.5. Conclusion 55 Chapter 5. Defining Spam 57 5.1. What is spam? 57 5.2. Preface: the influence of role on users’ perceptions of messages 57 5.3. Classifying e-mails according to role management theory 61 5.3.1. Roles and direct and indirect idiosyncratic connections 61 5.3.2. Roles played, transitions and perception of e-mail 65 5.4. Message classification model 68 5.4.1. E-mails received from unknown sources 68 5.4.2. Commercial spam 69 5.4.3. Fraudulent spam 70 5.4.4. E-mail received from known (trusted) sources 70 5.5. Conclusion 73 Chapter 6. A Lack of Ethics that Disrupts E-mail Communication 75 6.1. There is a new behavior behind every technical asset 75 6.2. Ethics and Information and Communication Technologies 76 6.3. Glossary of misuses and some of their consequences 79 6.4. Conclusion 104 Chapter 7. The Deadly Sins of Electronic Mail 105 7.1. Carefree exuberance 105 7.2. Confused identity 107 7.3. Cold indifference 108 7.4. Impassioned anger 109 7.5. Lost truth 111 7.6. The door of secrets 112 7.6.1. The ethical approach 112 7.6.2. The managerial approach 113 7.7. Fraudulent temptation 114 7.8. What answers should be given to these questions? 115 Chapter 8. The Venial Sins of Electronic Mail 117 8.1. Information overload 117 8.2. Anonymous disrespect 118 8.3. Communication poverty 118 8.4. Misunderstanding 119 8.4.1. Poorly written messages 119 8.4.2. Misread messages 119 8.4.3. When faced with misunderstanding, is empathy a solution? 120 8.5. Culpable ambiguity 120 8.6. Humor, love, rumors, and all the rest 120 Chapter 9. Exposure to Spam and Protection Strategies 123 9.1. Risk behaviors 123 9.1.1. Dynamic factors of spam exposure 124 9.1.2. Static factors of spam exposure 131 9.1.3. Other risks of spam exposure 133 9.2. Protection strategies 134 9.2.1. Keeping separate e-mail accounts 134 9.2.2. Using complex addresses 136 9.2.3. Treating received spam appropriately 136 9.2.4. Checking our e-proximity and network 138 9.2.5. Filters 139 9.2.6. Modify our sensitivity to spam 142 9.3. Conclusion 142 Concluding Recommendations 145 Bibliography 151 Index 157
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Belief and Misbelief Asymmetry on the Internet
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
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