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  • Archiving Machines

    From Punch Cards to Platforms

    by Amelia Acker ...
    Series series The Information Society Series
    **The story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage.2026 PROSE Award Winner: Computing and Information Sciences**Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultures of information that have led to platforms that assert control over ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Sage Handbook of Data and Society

    Edited by Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford ...
    The Sage Handbook of Data and Society provides a comprehensive exploration of the impact of data on society. Addressing urgent research questions in this rapidly evolving field and offering a balanced mix of introductory insights and advanced analyses, this resource offers a nuanced understanding of critical data studies and their relevance to contemporary society. Through detailed examinations of ... Read more

    $109.79 USD

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  • Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths

    Achieving Privacy through Careful Design

    by Jaap-Henk Hoepman ...
    An expert on computer privacy and security shows how we can build privacy into the design of systems from the start.We are tethered to our devices all day, every day, leaving data trails of our searches, posts, clicks, and communications. Meanwhile, governments and businesses collect our data and use it to monitor us without our knowledge. So we have resigned ourselves to the belief that privacy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, fourth edition

    Edited by Ulrike Felt, Rayvon Fouche, Clark A. Miller, Laurel Smith-Doerr ...
    The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Privacy

    On Engineering Technologies that Can Deliver Trustworthy Safeguards

    by Courtney Bowman, Ari Gesher, John K Grant, Daniel Slate, Elissa Lerner ...
    Technology’s influence on privacy not only concerns consumers, political leaders, and advocacy groups, but also the software architects who design new products. In this practical guide, experts in data analytics, software engineering, security, and privacy policy describe how software teams can make privacy-protective features a core part of product functionality, rather than add them late in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Open Innovation Learning

    Theory building on open sourcing while private sourcing

    by David Ing, Jim Spohrer ...
    Organizations embark on open innovation initiatives to sweep in external knowledge, practices and resources in cooperation with partners. This contrasts to the mainstream private innovation approach of in-house research and development sponsored solely by an incorporated funder, with intellectual property protected by copyright. Few organizations simultaneously engage in both approaches, within ... Read more

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  • Cyber Security and Policy

    A substantive dialogue

    Edited by Andrew Colarik, Anuradha Mathrani, Julian Jang-Jaccard ...
    Series series Massey Defence and Security Series
    A world without the advantages and convenience provided by cyberspace and the internet of things is now unimaginable. But do we truly grasp the threats to this massive, interconnected system? And do we really understand how to secure it? After all, cyber security is no longer just a technology problem; the effort to secure systems and society are now one and the same.This book discusses cyber ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Research Data Management

    Practical Strategies for Information Professionals

    Edited by Joyce M. Ray ...
    Series series Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences
    It has become increasingly accepted that important digital data must be retained and shared in order to preserve and promote knowledge, advance research in and across all disciplines of scholarly endeavor, and maximize the return on investment of public funds. To meet this challenge, colleges and universities are adding data services to existing infrastructures by drawing on the expertise of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reverse Engineering Social Media

    Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism

    by Robert W Gehl ...
    Robert Gehl's timely critique, Reverse Engineering Social Media, rigorously analyzes the ideas of social media and software engineers, using these ideas to find contradictions and fissures beneath the surfaces of glossy sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.Gehl adeptly uses a mix of software studies, science and technology studies, and political economy to reveal the histories and contexts ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • History of Computer Science

    Technology, Application and Organization

    by Georg E. Schäfer ...
    The history of Computer Science is a picture of dramatic changes. European Scientists discovered many basic methods needed for computing. American companies saw the commercial potential. Asian factories produce first class products like mobile devices. Chinese supercomputing is one of the leaders in the race to exascale computing power. Freedom of information, Open Data and Open Government are ... Read more

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  • EUGAGER - European Citizen Engagement Platform: Proposal for an European Citizen Engagement Platform

    by Giovani Spagnolo ...
    EUGAGER is a project proposal submitted to the EU in response to the ICT Call 4 under the7th Framework Programme in April 2009. It proposed the research, design and prototypeimplementation of a web-based, secure and free/open source software platform fore-Governance and e-Participation tools. In particular, the core system would support theconnection of external e-Government and e-Participation ... Read more

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  • Issues in Cyberspace

    From Privacy to Piracy

    by Robert Curley ...
    Series series Computing and Connecting in the 21st Century
    The technological phenomenon known as the Internet has revolutionized the way people work, play, consume, socialize—essentially the way humans interact in general. Along with unparalleled access to information and such cultural juggernauts as Facebook and YouTube, this technology also has given rise to cybercrime, malware, and a host of other issues as well. This comprehensive volume examines the ... Read more

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