Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World

ISBN-13: 9780415807135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 296 str.

Barry M. Dumas

Opis

'Information Technology and Society' weaves together the concepts and conditions of IT. The author pulls together important, often complex, issues in the relationships among information, information technologies, and societal constructs.

Spis treści

1. What’s it All About?  2. Information to Suit – As You Like it  3. Connections – The Internet and the Web  4. That is to Say – Free Expression, Privacy, and Security  5. What’s Mine is Whose? – Intellectual Property  6. You, Me, and Everyone Else – Alone Together and Vice Versa  7. Attack of the Bits – From Nuisance to Cyber Warfare  8. Mind and Machine – Artificial Intelligence  9. We Are What We Do – Ethics and Responsibilities  10. The Future Lays Ahead – We’re off to See…?

O autorze

M. Barry Dumas is a Professor of Computer Information Systems at the City University of New York, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business, USA.