Information technology: general topics Books

This book explores the potential of the metaverse to transform education. The authors connect rigorous theory with practical applications to provide educators, researchers, and policymakers with...

This monograph examines the growing datafication of European borders, exploring how digital technologies reshape migration governance. This book reveals how such technologies increasingly function as...

This book explores the potential of the metaverse to transform education. The authors connect rigorous theory with practical applications to provide educators, researchers, and policymakers with...

AI and the Disruption of the Social analyses digital automation and the disruption of both the social and social work, in response to rapid advances in digital technology, automated decision-making,...

The book offers an introduction to large language models (LLMs) that bridge foundational natural language processing (NLP) concepts with the advanced techniques underlying large language models. It...

This highly topical book provides an integrated framework for understanding how artificial intelligence, personality traits, gender, and cultural contexts shape youth digital engagement and mental...

Digital Futures in the Making brings together digital anthropology and anthropology of the future to examine digital future-making and its politics in Europe, contributing to the growing conversation...

This book examines the rapid digital transformation across Europe and its implications for governance.It offers a critical analysis of regulatory frameworks, technological disruptions and societal...

This highly topical book provides an integrated framework for understanding how artificial intelligence, personality traits, gender, and cultural contexts shape youth digital engagement and mental...

The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities explores the question of what it means for a city to be ‘smart’, raises some of the tensions emerging in smart city developments and considers the implications...

Data visualization is the art and science of making information visible. On paper and in our imaginations, it’s a language of shapes and colors that holds our best ideas and most important questions...

Managing Risk: Technology and Communications is a practical guide to the effective management of technology and communications risks. Frequent high profile scares, like the Sasser worm and WiFi...

Data visualization is the art and science of making information visible. On paper and in our imaginations, it’s a language of shapes and colors that holds our best ideas and most important questions...

Save yourself and your students hours of research time. Now extensively revised and expanded, "The History Highway" is widely recognized as the one essential tool for students, teachers and...

How have schools been affected by the introduction of computer technology, and has it changed the school life and experience of students? This book uses research from both large and small secondary...

Threat intelligence is a surprisingly complex topic that goes far beyond the obvious technical challenges of collecting, modelling and sharing technical indicators. Most books in this area focus...

Central state and non-covert surveillance began in earnest at the start of the twentieth century. By the start of the twenty-first century, the UK was one of the most surveilled societies on earth...

Historically, security managers have tended to be sourced from either the armed forces or law enforcement. But the increasing complexity of the organisations employing them, along with the...

This book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in order to gain insight into what endings are and...

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an...

An urgent book on generative artificial intelligence from one of the top US journalists in the tech field, exploring the risk and benefits looming. An urgent book on generative artificial...

The first definitive account of one of Ireland’s most controversial business stories Founded in 2009 by the enigmatic Paddy Cosgrave, Web Summit started as a 150-person meet up in Dublin. Within a...

Digital wellbeing is all about finding the balance between the digital world and the real world – and making sure we use smartphones and other digital devices in a healthy way, while living...

'Great book' – Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works'Essential reading' – Pete Etchells, author of Unlocked'An urgent must-read' – Tiffany Jenkins, author and broadcaster, presenter of BBC...

To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet, science confirms that misuse of technology and environmental abuse places our world in grave danger of ruin. The World...

Arguing that popular digital platforms promote misguided assumptions about ethics and technology, this book lays out a new perspective on the relation between technological capacities and human...

Association of American Publishers (AAP) Finalist for the 2020 PROSE AwardAssociation of American Publishers (AAP) Subject Category Winner for the 2020 PROSE Award2019 Taylor & Francis Award Winner...

Looking for Insight, Transformation, and Learning in Online Talk is a comprehensive guide to analyzing digital interaction in formal and informal online spaces. The book establishes a new research...

This book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how...

The book offers an introduction to large language models (LLMs) that bridge foundational natural language processing (NLP) concepts with the advanced techniques underlying large language models. It...

Every major technological regime in human history has reorganised not only how societies produce but how they think, govern, and define what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is no...

AI-Enabled Learning for Climate Action brings together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and innovators to examine how digital learning systems, data platforms, and emerging technologies,...

The Business-to-Business (B2B) Cloud Service Provider (CSP) market is on a trajectory of explosive growth, estimated at approximately $875 billion in 2026 and poised to reach well into the trillions...

In this book, readers will find an exhaustive guide on cryptography for modern blockchain technology. It starts with an understanding of how blockchain trust minimization emerges from cryptographic...

The book Advances in Distance Learning in Times of Pandemic is devoted to the issues and challenges faced by universities in the field of distance learning in COVID-19 times. It covers both the...

A Beginner’s Guide to Internet of Things Security focuses on security issues and developments in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment. The wide-ranging applications of IoT, including home...

The Business-to-Business (B2B) Cloud Service Provider (CSP) market is on a trajectory of explosive growth, estimated at approximately $875 billion in 2026 and poised to reach well into the trillions...

Since the publication of the ground-breaking first edition, there has been an exponential growth in research and literature about the digital world and its enormous potential benefits and threats...

An essential resource work for understanding how to design and develop smart applications for present and future problems of the field of agriculture.— Dr. Deepak Gupta, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of...

This book deals with a different research area of cognitive IoT and explains how machine learning algorithms can be applied for cognitive IoT. It deals with applications of cognitive IoT in this...

This book focuses on futuristic approaches and designs for real-time systems and applications, as well as the fundamental concepts of including advanced techniques and tools in models of data-driven...

Cognitive Computing for Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) offers a complete assessment of the present scenario, role, challenges, technologies, and impact of IoMT-enabled smart healthcare systems. It...

This book investigates how women in Africa are being impacted by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which describes the twenty-first-century proliferation of mobile internet, machine learning and...

This comprehensive text provides practical guidance for implementing nature-inspired algorithms and metaheuristics in real-life scenarios to solve complex optimization problems. It further...

Using Marxist critique, this book explores manifestations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education and demonstrates how it contributes to the functioning and existence of the capitalist...

Moving the conversation about young children and digital technologies away beyond “good” or “bad”, Susan Edwards and Leon Straker present an innovative perspective to educators, researchers, and...

AI-Enabled Learning for Climate Action brings together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and innovators to examine how digital learning systems, data platforms, and emerging technologies,...

In this book, readers will find an exhaustive guide on cryptography for modern blockchain technology. It starts with an understanding of how blockchain trust minimization emerges from cryptographic...