Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Social Aspects

Privacy, Due process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology engages with the rapidly developing computational aspects of our world including data mining, behavioural advertising, iGovernment, profiling for intelligence, customer relationship management, smart search engines, personalized news feeds, and so on in order to consider their implications for the assumptions on which our legal framework has been built. The contributions to this volume focus on the issue of privacy, which is often equated with data privacy and data security, location...

The book provides an anthology of empirical studies of speech technologies for voice reconstruction for those who have lost their natural voices due to largectomies or have severely impaired voices that require speech enhancement. Topics include the use of ASR in medical domain, speech synthesis technologies for individuals with vocal disabilities, statistical alaryngeal speech enhancement for laryngectomees, infant cry analysis and classification, voice pathology analysis and voice conversion for non-vocal speech, and analysis of shouted speech.

Uberall auf der Welt werden Smart City-Initiativen entwickelt. Allerdings sind diese Initiativen meist nur projektorientiert, ohne holistischen Ansatz. Noch fehlt es in der Praxis an geeigneten Schablonen zur Einordnung des Reifegrades von Smart City-Initiativen und Transformationsmodellen zur konkreten Smart City-Umsetzung.

In diesem Buch geht es um die konkrete und stufenweise Umsetzung von Smart City-Initiativen. Das Buch erlaubt die Klassifikation und Bewertung von Smart City-Initiativen anhand eines Reifegradmodells. Auf der Basis des Reifegradmodells konnen Smart...

"Government 2.0 is an extraordinarily detailed and highly technical addition to the literature on government reform. The plan laid out in Government 2.0 challenges traditional paradigm about how to structure a government whose primary intent is service of its citizenry. Imholt's principled focus on ensuring that government does this efficiently is evident in his recognition of the sacrifices that both conservatives and liberals must make to achieve that end. "

There is a contradiction at the heart of digital media. We use commercial platforms to express our identity, to build community and to engage politically. At the same time, our status updates, tweets, videos, photographs and music files are free content for these sites. We are also generating an almost endless supply of user data that can be mined, re-purposed and sold to advertisers. As users of the commercial web, we are socially and creatively engaged, but also labourers, exploited by the companies that provide our communication platforms. How do we reconcile these...

The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual practices. Popular culture (film, narrative television, the news media, and advertising) present two very distinct pictures of the use of the Internet as related to intimacy. From news reports about victims of online dating, to the presentation of the desperate and dateless, the perverts and the deviants, a distinct frame for the intimacy/Internet connection is negativity. In some...

Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to a major alteration in technology use and thus daily living. Yet no work has systematically explored AmI and the IoT as advances in science and technology (S&T) and sociotechnical visions in light of their nature, underpinning, and practices along with their implications for individual and social wellbeing and for environmental health. AmI and the...

This book addresses issues on the nexus of "freedom of" and "property in" information, while acknowledging that both hiding and exposing information may affect our privacy. It inquires into the physics, the technologies, the business models, the governmental strategies and last but not least the legal frameworks concerning access, organisation and control of information. It debates whether it is in the very nature of information to be either free or monopolized, or both. Analysing upcoming power structures, new types of colonization and attempts to replace legal norms with techno-nudging,...