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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “hannes werthner”
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  • Digital Humanism

    On Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence

    by Hannes Werthner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Information technology (IT) is changing us, our society and our world, and it influences how we perceive the world and how we think about it. This book describes the rather complex development of IT over the last 70 years, highlights the dynamics of this process, and critically reflects on both ongoing technical and related societal changes.The book discusses fundamental developments in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Digital Transformation and Ethics

    by Alexander Bogner, Christopher Frauenberger, Markus Frischhut, Sepp Hochreiter, Niina Huber, Anna Jobin, Severin Kacianka, Anita Klingel, Tobias D. Krafft, Sabine Theresia Köszegi, Julian Nida-Rümelin, Alexander Pretschner, Peter Reichl, Maria Riegler, Markus Scholz, Anne Siegetsleitner, Sarah Spiekermann, Elisabeth Stampfl-Blaha, Charlotte Stix, Stefan Strauß, Harald Welzer, Hannes Werthner, Katharina A. Zweig, Michael Mayrhofer, Gerold Rachbauer ...
    Everything is digital – whether it concerns the private sphere, work or public life. The technological progress involves both enormous chances and great risks. What are the social challenges we face? Which role does ethics play? Will the digital revolution necessarily serve the common good?Experts from various fields, among them computer science, economy, sociology and philosophy, address these ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Lectures in E-Commerce

    Edited by Hannes Werthner, Martin Bichler ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Although only a few years old, electronic commerce offers new ways of doing business that no business can afford to ignore. This book is a collection of selected contributions from renowned researchers who specialize in the various facets of electronic commerce, namely economics, finance, information technology, and education. The basic goal is to give an overview of some of the most relevant ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Introduction to Digital Humanism

    A Textbook

    Edited by Hannes Werthner, Carlo Ghezzi, Jeff Kramer, Julian Nida-Rümelin, Bashar Nuseibeh, Erich Prem, Allison Stanger ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access textbook introduces and defines digital humanism from a diverse range of disciplines. Following the 2019 Vienna Manifesto, the book calls for a digital humanism that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, influences the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a better society and life, fully respecting universal human rights.The book is organized in three parts: ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Digital Humanism

    Edited by Hannes Werthner, Erich Prem, Edward A. Lee, Carlo Ghezzi ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, education, law, economics, history, anthropology, political science, and sociology. This initiative emerged from the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and the associated ... Read more

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  • Big Mind

    How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Decoding the Social World

    Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication

    by Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon ...
    Series series Information Policy
    How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences.Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In Decoding the Social World, Sandra González-Bailón explains how data science and digital traces ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Social Media Abyss

    Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation

    by Geert Lovink ...
    Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to technologies of capture and cultures of fear. Despite the incursion into privacy by companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon, ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Digital Media and Society

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Athique ...
    The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Everyday Automation

    Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies

    Edited by Sarah Pink, Martin Berg, Deborah Lupton, Minna Ruckenstein ...
    This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automated ... Read more

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  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age

    Edited by Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, Tamar Tembeck ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD