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Computers are the foundation of the information age, but communication technology is the foundation of the foundation. Without the theories and practical applications of theory brought to us by the...

Computers are the foundation of the information age, but communication technology is the foundation of the foundation. Without the theories and practical applications of theory brought to us by the...

This volume contains the papers presented at the 8th Workshop on Computing: Theory and Practice, WCTP 2018 and is devoted to theoretical and practical approaches to computation. The conference was...

An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.How did we build large language models? How do they think, if they think? What will the world look like if we have...

In a world overflowing with abundance and information, the calm and clarity of stoicism has never been more necessary. In this new book, bestselling author Ken Mogi explores the ancient Greek...

An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism...

From the creator of the viral Kardashian Kolloquium comes a New Media manifesto for the TikTok age - blending theory, cultural analysis and history to explain the meteoric rise of the Kardashians and...

A fascinating deep-dive into game theory, its history and its practical applications by award-winning expert on computer science and artificial intelligence.Most of us have some idea about game...

The Halloween version of the hugely popular screaming goat is a terrifyingly perfect companion for spooky season to scare friends and trick-or-treaters alike.- Specifications: Includes a 3 -inch...

Project management can play a key role in arriving at an effective decision in various functional areas of management. This book focuses on the integral role of project management in an organization...

Providing a comprehensive examination of artificial intelligence techniques that integrate heterogeneous healthcare data to support intelligent, secure, and sustainable healthcare systems, this book...

This book explores the profound transformations brought about by the datafication of society, and reflects on the implications this has for activism, social movements, and contentious politics.The...

The rapid advancement of semantic web technologies, along with the fact that they are at various levels of maturity, has left many practitioners confused about the current state of these technologies...

The book highlights emerging developments in intelligent computing, communication technologies, robotics, embedded systems, and data-driven innovations that are shaping the future of smart and...

At a time when technology and healthcare are colliding to alter lives, Digital Twin Technology for Better Health: A Healthcare Odyssey throws open the revolutionary possibilities of digital twins in...

How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance...

The book addresses the exploration of cutting-edge technological advancements.This collection encompasses a comprehensive range of peer-reviewed research across nine strategic tracks, including...

HIMSS’ Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CAHIMS) certification offers a pathway to careers in health information technology (health IT) for associate-level,...

Intelligent Urban Infrastructure: Smart Solutions for Sustainable Cities explores how emerging digital technologies are reshaping the design, management, and sustainability of modern cities. This...

Guo provides a comprehensive outlook of how digital media is transforming the daily lives of senior citizens in China.The book explores the important role digital media play in senior citizens’ daily...

Trump and Putin in Media Mythologies provides an account of the media portrayal of two presidents—Donald Trump of the United States and Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation—as mythologized...

This book explores Learning Analytics (LA) programmes and practices in Malaysia as well as looking at the underlying forces, dilemmas and policy challenges for quality assurance in higher education...

The digitalisation of courtrooms brings both opportunities and challenges to the judicial process, shaping our understandings of trials and their participants in a myriad of, at times, unexpected...

Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon for Digital Museology is an illustrated monograph articulated through a comprehensive lexicon of key concepts in next-generation museology. Each of the book’s ten...

This book looks at the drivers in the emergence, development and internal and global expansion of Asian e-commerce businesses. It tackles the problems inherent in the globalization strategy of a...

The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities covers a wide range of issues encountered in the world’s libraries and archives as they continue to expand their support of,...

This book describes the path of women entrepreneurs who manage sustainable enterprises and delves into the issues that women entrepreneurs encounter along with the steps they are taking to overcome...

This book introduces the developments and practices of digital diplomacy in Indonesia’s foreign policy to support diplomatic practice.The analysis focuses on Indonesia’s digital diplomacy,...

Adopting Virtual Reality in Inclusive Higher Education offers a timely exploration of how higher education can realize the transformative potential of VR while foregrounding accessibility and equity...

Pervasive and ubiquitous, machine translation systems have been transforming communication and understanding across languages and cultures on a historical scale. Focused on both Neural Machine...

Adopting Virtual Reality in Inclusive Higher Education offers a timely exploration of how higher education can realize the transformative potential of VR while foregrounding accessibility and equity...

AI-Generated Content (AIGC) is a revolutionary engine for digital content generation. In the area of art, AI has achieved remarkable advancements. AI is capable of not only creating paintings or...

The Digital Environment and Small States in Europe delves into how the digital revolution intersects with global security dynamics and reshapes the geopolitical landscape. It sheds light on the...

This book explores the sociological processes related to digital infrastructures, nation-states, military organisations, companies and hackers. It explores how the European Union consults hackers,...

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of key themes and agendas in contemporary Participatory Design across diverse disciplines, continents, communities, and practices. Building on...

This book showcases the potential of computational approaches for research questions at the heart of migration and integration research via a set of original, cutting-edge empirical studies by a...

Today the healthcare sector is facing challenges such as detecting the cause of ailments, disease prevention, high operating costs, availability of skilled technicians and infrastructure bottlenecks...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is featured by the tight integration of cyber and physical components. CPS has made major advances with a broad societal impact. Now in the era of Industry Revolution 4...

First published in 1983, New Information Technology in Education surveyed developments in the field of information technology and demonstrated how it could be used to improve the quality of education...

First published in 1983, New Information Technology in Education surveyed developments in the field of information technology and demonstrated how it could be used to improve the quality of education...

Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema examines how contemporary cinema has represented and engaged with the experience of simultaneously inhabiting digital and material spaces (i.e...

This book helps to enhance the application of fuzzy logic optimization in the areas of science and engineering. It includes implementation and models and paradigms, such as path planning and routing...

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...

Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities is a pioneer attempt to introduce a wide range of disciplines in the emerging field of techno-humanities to the English-reading world.This book...

The financial industry has been evolving more quickly than most of us have anticipated. As digital currencies gain popularity, both new opportunities and hazards are emerging. Cryptocurrencies are no...

Smart Cities: Blockchain-Based Systems, Networks, and Data examines the various components that make up a smart city. It focuses on infrastructure, processes, and services and outlines approaches for...

This book examines the challenges posed to Australian copyright law by streaming, from the end-user perspective. It compares the Australian position with the European Union and United States to draw...