Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing on the ideas of the knowing subject, the nature of knowledge, rationality and language, are bound to make a significant and powerful contribution to AI studies.
Drawing from theories by Donna Haraway and Sherry Turkle, and using tools of feminist epistemology, Adam provides a...

Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing on the ideas of the knowing subject, the nature of knowledge, rationality and language, are bound to make a significant and powerful contribution to AI studies.
Drawing from theories by Donna Haraway and Sherry Turkle, and using tools of feminist epistemology, Adam provides a...

The aim of this work is to provide an understanding of the ways in which gender is inscribed and reproduced through information and communication technologies (ICTs). An edited collection, it is organized in four sections: Identity and Self examines transgender identities and the increasingly common phenomenon of gender switching in virtual reality. Gendered Access and Experience of ICTs and the Internet looks at empirical research findings on gender and the Internet and the complexity of women's experiences of technology. Leisure, Pleasure and Consumption continues this theme within the...

The aim of this work is to provide an understanding of the ways in which gender is inscribed and reproduced through information and communication technologies (ICTs). An edited collection, it is organized in four sections: Identity and Self examines transgender identities and the increasingly common phenomenon of gender switching in virtual reality. Gendered Access and Experience of ICTs and the Internet looks at empirical research findings on gender and the Internet and the complexity of women's experiences of technology. Leisure, Pleasure and Consumption continues this theme within the...

This book brings feminist philosophy, in the shape of feminist ethics, politics and legal theory, to an analysis of computer ethics problems including hacking, privacy, surveillance, cyberstalking and Internet dating. Adam claims that these issues cannot be properly understood unless we see them as problems relating to gender. For the first time, these issues are put under the feminist spotlight to show that traditional responses reproduce the public/private split which has so often reinforced the causes of women's oppression.

How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is the first book to consider the wide spectrum of influences which went into creating the discipline in Britain in the first part of the twentieth century.

This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around...