This book provides an introductory overview to all of the major policy issues in the United States related to information technology. These issues include federal funding of research that helped to create the Internet; telecommunications issues such as regulations about wireless technologies; computer security and homeland defense; governance and use of the Internet such as spam, viruses, electronic voting, taxation of online commerce, and child pornography; privacy; intellectual property issues such as copyright infringement related to peer-to-peer sharing of music and video files, or...
This book provides an introductory overview to all of the major policy issues in the United States related to information technology. These issues inc...
This book covers the way computing was handled before the arrival of electronic computers. It discusses manual information processing and early technologies. The book describes the development of software technology, the professionalization of programming, and the emergence of a software industry.
This book covers the way computing was handled before the arrival of electronic computers. It discusses manual information processing and early techno...
This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of “fake facts” in America, the book discusses important developments in this area from the emergence of the public Internet in the 1990s to the start of the Trump-Clinton presidential election campaigns.
Topics and features: describes how some of the major players in political fact-checking began with the purpose of scrutinizing and debunking of urban legends;...
This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny th...
