Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Social Aspects

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC 2024, held in Phuket, Thailand, during September 8–10, 2024.

The 9 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. Summaries of 2 keynote presentations are also included. This papers focus on Humans, Technological Innovations and Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Consequences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development, ICT4D 2024, which was held in Cape Town, South Africa, during May 20–22, 2024.

The 49 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. 

They are organized in topical sections as follows: 

Part I - Artificial Intelligence, Inequalities, and Human Rights; Digital Inclusion through e-Government; Giving Voice to...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development, ICT4D 2024, which was held in Cape Town, South Africa, during May 20–22, 2024.

The 48 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. 

They are organized in topical sections as follows: 

Part I - Artificial Intelligence, Inequalities, and Human Rights; Digital Inclusion through e-Government; Giving Voice to...

"A very valuable resource for families wishing to educate their children towards a safer and responsible use of the Internet." --Nuria Quintana Compte, SafeBorders project (European Commission's Safer Internet Programme)

"An easy-to-follow, practical, and understandable guide for families to make their own and their children's Internet use a safer experience.... Invaluable and authoritative."...

This volume is number 67 in the series Advances in Computers that began back in 1960. This is the longest continuously published series of books that chronicles the evolution of the computer industry. Each year three volumes are produced presenting approximately 20 chapters that describe the latest technology in the use of computers today. Volume 67, subtitled "Web technology," presents 6 chapters that show the impact that the World Wide Web is having on our society today. The general theme running throughout the volume is the ubiquity of web services. Topics such as wireless access...

Just as education has promoted democracy and economic growth, the Internet has the potential to benefit society as a whole. Digital citizenship, or the ability to participate in society online, promotes social inclusion. But statistics show that significant segments of the population are still excluded from digital citizenship. The authors of this book define digital citizens as those who are online daily. By focusing on frequent use, they reconceptualize debates about the digital divide to include both the means and the skills to participate online. They offer new evidence (drawn from...

In less than a decade, personal computers have become part of our daily lives. Many of us come into contact with computers every day, whether at work, school or home. As useful as the new technologies are, they also have a darker side. By making computers part of our daily lives, we run the risk of allowing thieves, swindlers, and all kinds of deviants directly into our homes. Armed with a personal computer, a modem and just a little knowledge, a thief can easily access confidential information, such as details of bank accounts and credit cards. This book helps people avoid harm at the...

In 1985 The WELL, a dial-up discussion board, began with the phrase: You own your own words. Though almost everything else about online discussion has changed in the two decades since, those words still describe its central premise, and this basic idea underlies both the power and the popularity of blogging today. Appropriately enough, it also describes American journalism as it existed a century and a half before The WELL was organized, before the concept of popular involvement in the press was nearly swept away on the rising tide of commercial and professional journalism. In this book,...

Just as the automobile radically changed people's lives at the beginning of the 20th century, so too has the revolution in online services (including blogging, podcasting, videogaming, shopping, and social networking) and cell-phone use changed our lives at the turn of the 21st century. In addition, many other services, activities, and devices--including the Palm Pilot, the BlackBerry, the iPod, digital cameras, and cell cameras--have been made possible by the combination of these two technologies. Whereas the automobile allowed people for the first time to work in cities and live...

Blogs--or weblogs--are a huge phenomenon on the internet. From ultra-personal diary entries to specialized information on a wide variety of subjects (teen ranting to presidential campaigns), blogs are the new way to create a virtual community that can effect real-world change. It's not hard to set up a blog, but it can be difficult adjusting to life in the "Blogosphere."
One of the first blogging experts, who helped found the weblog community Xanga, Biz Stone will help readers:
--learn the origins of blogging
--discover why blogging is so popular
--explore the ettiquette of...

This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent,...

In 1990, members of IFIP Working Group 9.2 were instrumental in producing one of the first books to describe the 'Landscape' of the new phenomena created by the uptake of computerization - the so-called Information Society. Ten years later, at the annual Namur meeting of its Working Group in January 2000, a proposal was made to produce a second book and the brainstorming began. In the time that had passed, the developments in computer technology had brought the Internet within reach of ordinary citizens, and the World Wide Web had spawned a new 'e-industry'. The landscape of the...