Information Technology and Computer Science (12)

• Digital Humanities
• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Linguistics

Modelling Between Digital and Humanities: Thinking in Practice

• Arianna Ciula
• Øyvind Eide
• Cristina Marras
• Patrick Sahle

This volume presents an exploration of Digital Humanities (DH), a field focused on the reciprocal transformation of digital technologies and humanities scholarship. Central to DH research is the practice of modelling, which involves translating intricate knowledge systems into computational models. This book addresses a fundamental query: How can an effective language be developed to conceptualize and guide modelling in DH?

• Information Technology and Computer Science

Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 1 - From Adventure of Ideas to Anarchy of Transition

• David Ingram

In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments.

• Information Technology and Computer Science

Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 2 - From Anarchy of Transition to Programme for Reform

• David Ingram

In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments.

• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Literature
• Philosophy

Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness

• Paul Matthews

Transparent Minds explores the intersection between neuroscience and science fiction stories. Paul Matthews expertly analyses the narratives of humans and nonhumans from Mary Shelley to Kazuo Ishiguro across 200 years of the genre. In doing so he gives lucid insight into the meaning of existence and self-awareness. Rigorously researched and highly accessible, Matthews argues that psycho-emotional science fiction writers both imitate and inform alien and post-human consciousnesses through exploratory narratives and metaphor.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Media Studies and Journalism
• Philosophy
• Science

Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction

• Ibo van de Poel
• Lily Eva Frank
• Julia Hermann
• Jeroen Hopster
• Dominic Lenzi
• Sven Nyholm
• Behnam Taebi
• Elena Ziliotti

Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global warming by engineering the climate, but how does this impact our responsibility to future generations and our relation to nature? This book shows how technologies can be socially and conceptually disruptive and investigates how to come to terms with this disruptive potential.

• Business and Management
• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Information Technology and Computer Science

Digital Transformation: Understanding Business Goals, Risks, Processes, and Decisions

• Mathias Cöster
• Mats Danielson
• Love Ekenberg
• Cecilia Gullberg
• Gard Titlestad
• Alf Westelius
• Gunnar Wettergren

Whilst digitisation is far from a new concept, many assume that simply introducing automation and information systems in various forms will be enough to make their organisation’s operations more efficient. This misconception can often lead to disarray and costly mistakes. Digital Transformation: Understanding Business Goals, Risks, Processes, and Decisions shows how to avoid such issues via careful consideration of what an enterprise really needs.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Media Studies and Journalism

Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject: A Posthuman Approach

• Richard S. Lewis

This book addresses these issues by providing a transdisciplinary method that allows for both practical and theoretical analyses of media investigations. Informed by postphenomenology, media ecology, philosophical posthumanism, and complexity theory the author proposes both a framework and a pragmatic instrument for understanding the multiplicity of relations that all contribute to how we affect—and are affected by—our relations with media technology.

• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Science
• Science: History of Science
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

B C, Before Computers: On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data

• Stephen Robertson

Treading the line between philosophy and technical history, Robertson draws on his extensive technical knowledge to produce a text which is both thought-provoking and accessible to a wide range of readers.

• Digital Humanities
• Education
• Information Technology and Computer Science

Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research

• Jennifer Edmond

This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research practices in the humanities, and in the future of the digital humanities on the whole.

• American and Latin American Studies
• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• History
• Information Technology and Computer Science

The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

• William Boone Bonvillian
• Richard Van Atta
• Patrick Windham

This book is a remarkable collection of leading academic research on DARPA from a wide range of perspectives, combining to chart an important story from the Agency’s founding in the wake of Sputnik, to the current attempts to adapt it to use by other federal agencies. Informative and insightful, this guide is essential reading for political and policy leaders, as well as researchers and students interested in understanding the success of this agency and the lessons it offers to others.

• Education
• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Media Studies and Journalism

Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis

• Chris Rowell

How does social media affect working life in Higher Education? How are universities harnessing its power to aid student learning? This innovative collection brings together academics and those working in professional services to examine these questions and more. The diverse and expert contributors analyse the many ways social media can be used to enhance teaching and learning, research, professional practice, leadership, networking and career development. The impact of social media is evaluated critically, with an eye both to the benefits and the problems of using these new forms of digital communication.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Information Technology and Computer Science

Deliberation, Representation, Equity: Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes

• Love Ekenberg
• Karin Hansson
• Mats Danielson
• Göran Cars

In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways. But participatory decision making is balancing on the borders of inclusion, structure, precision and accuracy. To simply enable more participation will not yield enhanced democracy, and there is a clear need for more elaborated elicitation and decision analytical tools. This rigorous and thought-provoking volume draws on a stimulating variety of international case studies, from flood risk management in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, to the consideration of alternatives to gold mining in Roșia Montană in Transylvania, to the application of multi-criteria decision analysis in evaluating the impact of e-learning opportunities at Uganda's Makerere University. This book is important new reading for decision makers in government, public administration and urban planning, as well as students and researchers in the fields of participatory democracy, urban planning, social policy, communication design, participatory art, decision theory, risk analysis and computer and systems sciences.