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This book offers a compelling discussion of the digital dreams that have come true, their often unintended side effects (nightmares), and what must be done to counteract the nightmares. It is intended as an impetus to further conversation not only in homes and workplaces, but in academic courses and even legislative debates. Equally importantly, the book is a presentation of what digital technology professionals need to know about these topics and the actions they should undertake individually and in support of other citizens, societal initiatives, and government. The author begins by introducing the amazing progress made in digital technologies over the past 80 years. Pioneering engineers dreamed of potential uses of technology through their writing and technical achievements, further inspiring thousands of researchers to bring the dreams to life, and to dream new dreams as well. The second part of the book describes the myriad adverse side effects and unanticipated challenges that arose as those dreams were pursued and achieved. Examples include rampant misinformation on social media, ransomware, autonomous weapons, and the premature use of AI before it is reliable and safe.The book closes with a positive call to action, outlining ways to address the challenges through ethical career choices, careful analysis, thoughtful design, research, citizen engagement, legislation/regulation, and careful consideration of how bad actors may use technology. Readers of Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares should become more knowledgeable, wiser, and also cautiously optimistic, determined to affect positive changes through their design, creation, and use of technology.

In this book, we describe the online world that youth begin to encounter, often without adult oversight. It is a critical time where they are first getting to know both the outside world and form their own identity. We explain the social forces and sways that influence kids'attitudes and choices, from peers in social apps to influencers. We show how the online world suggests answers that may or may not be right for individuals. Each chapter we supplies lessons that teachers, parents, counselors, and others can use to make youth aware of these online sways.

Desde la foto que un padre o una abuela toman del recién nacido en la sala de maternidad, pasando por las experiencias que se comparten en redes sociales, las reseñas o calificaciones de películas, hoteles o restaurantes, el self-tracking que registra cuánto corrió una persona en una semana, hasta el activismo feminista, social o ambiental y las campañas políticas, todos y todas estamos cada vez más condicionados, directa o indirectamente, por los fenómenos que se dan en el entorno digital. Por eso, los autores de este libro sostienen que, si queremos entender de verdad el auge de lo digital en el mundo contemporáneo, no se trata de descomponerlo en aplicaciones o plataformas aisladas, sino de encararlo, al igual que la naturaleza o las ciudades, como un entorno que envuelve y moldea todos los aspectos importantes de la vida cotidiana. ¿Cuáles son las principales características de este entorno? ¿Hasta qué punto nos viene dado'por completo'y cuáles son los márgenes para intervenir sobre él? Recuperando y sistematizando aportes de especialistas del Norte y del Sur globales, Pablo Boczkowski y Eugenia Mitchelstein muestran cómo las desigualdades de género, clase, educación, raza y etnicidad están inscriptas en el diseño y el funcionamiento de la tecnología, porque los algoritmos no son neutros, y describen prácticas emancipatorias que contrarrestan esos sesgos, incluido el uso de Twitter a través de hashtags como #BlackLivesMatter, #Mirá o #MeToo. Con evidencia empírica, riqueza narrativa y notable precisión conceptual, discuten la digitalización de la crianza, el trabajo, la escuela, las citas románticas; describen cómo los medios digitales reconfiguran nuestros hábitos de consumo de deportes, entretenimiento y noticias, y explican los desarrollos más innovadores en áreas claves de nuestro futuro digital: la ciencia de datos, la realidad virtual y la exploración espacial. Brillante introducción a los estudios sobre medios, comunicación y tecnología, y a la vez aguda radiografía de la subjetividad y la vida contemporánea, El entorno digital toma distancia de la celebración y de los enfoques apocalípticos para preguntarse qué pueden hacer los seres humanos en este lugar de la vida social y cómo pueden participar para volverlo más equitativo, justo e inclusivo.

The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers.The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business. Then Amazon, eBay, Upwork, and Apple established secure digital platforms for selling physical goods, crowdsourcing labor, and downloading apps. These tech giants have gone on to rule the Internet like autocrats. How did this happen? How did users and workers become the hapless subjects of online economic empires? The Internet was supposed to liberate us from powerful institutions. In Cloud Empires, digital economy expert Vili Lehdonvirta explores the rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over our lives and proposes a new way forward. Digital platforms create new marketplaces and prosperity on the Internet, Lehdonvirta explains, but they are ruled by Silicon Valley despots with little or no accountability. Neither workers nor users can “vote with their feet” and find another platform because in most cases there isn't one. And yet using antitrust law and decentralization to rein in the big tech companies has proven difficult. Lehdonvirta tells the stories of pioneers who helped create—or resist—the new social order established by digital platform companies. The protagonists include the usual suspects—Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Travis Kalanick of Uber, and Bitcoin's inventor Satoshi Nakamoto—as well as Kristy Milland, labor organizer of Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and GoFundMe, a crowdfunding platform that has emerged as an ersatz stand-in for the welfare state. Only if we understand digital platforms for what they are—institutions as powerful as the state—can we begin the work of democratizing them.

The publication is focused on the issue of risky communication and acquaintance of Czech children in cyberspace. A substantial part of the monograph consists of the conslucions of research on the manifestations of risky online communication in the population of Czech children aged 11 to 17 years.

Laurence Diver combines insight from legal theory, philosophy of technology and programming practice to develop a new theoretical and practical approach to the design of legitimate software. The book critically engages with the rule(s) of code, arguing that, like laws, these should exhibit certain formal characteristics if they are to be acceptable in a democracy. The resulting digisprudential affordances translate ideas of legitimacy from legal philosophy into the world of code design, to be realised through the ‘constitutional'role played by programming languages, integrated development environments (IDEs), and agile development practice. The text interweaves theory and practice throughout, including many insights into real-world technologies, as well as case studies on blockchain applications and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Understanding digital technology in daily life: why we should think holistically in terms of a digital environment instead of discrete devices and apps.Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long march toward the digitization of everyday life made possible by innovations in media, information, and communication technology. In The Digital Environment, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein offer a new way to understand the role of the digital in our daily lives, calling on us to turn our attention from our discrete devices and apps to the array of artifacts and practices that make up the digital environment that envelops every aspect of our social experience.Boczkowski and Mitchelstein explore a series of issues raised by the digital takeover of everyday life, drawing on interviews with a variety of experts. They show how existing inequities of gender, race, ethnicity, education, and class are baked into the design and deployment of technology, and describe emancipatory practices that counter this—including the use of Twitter as a platform for activism through such hashtags as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. They discuss the digitization of parenting, schooling, and dating—noting, among other things, that today we can both begin and end relationships online. They describe how digital media shape our consumption of sports, entertainment, and news, and consider the dynamics of political campaigns, disinformation, and social activism. Finally, they report on developments in three areas that will be key to our digital future: data science, virtual reality, and space exploration.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the Cyberspace, of how institutions and industries are reinventing themselves, helping them excel in the transition to a fully digitally connected global economy. Though technology plays a key part in this regard, societal acceptance is the most important underlying condition, as it poses pressing challenges that cut across companies, developers, governments and workers. The book explores the challenges and opportunities involved, current and potential future concepts, critical reflections and best practices. It addresses connected societies, new opportunities for governments, the role of trust in digital networks, and future education networks. In turn, a number of representative case studies demonstrate the current state of development in practice.

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2011. The papers collected in this volume document the exchange and development of ideas that comprised the 5th Global Conference on Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction, hosted at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, in July 2010. As in the past, the conference was driven by questions related to how cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction can provide new insights into the nature of what it is to be human and the understanding of what it means for human beings to live in communities. In addition to these recurring themes, there is just as importantly a disposition that is shared by those participating in this volume. The authors, as well the writers, thinkers, and filmmakers they consider in their essays, demonstrate an intrepid and inquisitive approach that tests age-old questions within the rapidly expanding, but still vaguely defined spaces that new technologies have afforded us. Moreover, in many ways, the conference and present volume reflect their subject, which has always been situated self-consciously and comfortably between the receding boundaries that have traditionally served both to delineate various academic disciplines and to distinguish real scholarship from popular discourse. Thus, as evidenced in the chapters of this volume, the conference benefited from the participation of delegates who represented a variety of fields, methodologies, and perspectives.

As the Internet develops, on top of earlier urban communications, facilities and media, it is becoming the site of urban communications on an unprecedented scale. Exploring the history of the Internet, from pre-conception to the possibilities of an internet-based future, The Internet City explores ways in which the Internet and urban life intersect. The book interprets how the contemporary city is becoming fully based on Internet technologies in all of its major dimensions: the daily activities of urbanites and urban companies, the operations of urban systems, and the functioning of upcoming driverless vehicles. With particular focus on the ways in which people routinely consume urban services via the Internet, Aharon Kellerman examines how they are simultaneously present in physical and digital spaces. Urban geographers and urban planners will benefit from the detailed information on how the cityscape will be altered in the near future by the introduction of internet-based autonomous vehicles. City policy makers will also find this a useful tool to explore how and why policies may need to be updated in accordance with the rising importance of the Internet in the urban sphere.

Steffen Rudolph widmet sich in seiner Studie der empirischen Untersuchung digitaler Ungleichheiten mit dem besonderen Fokus auf Partizipation im Internet. Vor dem Hintergrund einer an Pierre Bourdieu anknüpfenden Perspektive zeigt sich, dass nicht nur der Zugang, sondern auch der unterschiedliche Gebrauch des Internets deutlich von der sozialen Position der Akteure abhängig ist und bei der aktiven Gestaltung des Internets Benachteiligung sowie Exklusion drohen. Entgegen der Hoffnung auf eine vorwiegend horizontale gesellschaftliche Ausdifferenzierung bleiben mit Blick auf die verschiedenen Internetpraktiken die klassischen vertikalen Ungleichheitsdimensionen auch weiterhin relevant.

The New York Times bestseller, now updated with new material on cyber attacks, digital sovereignty, and tech in a pandemic.From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.“A colorful and insightful insiders'view of how technology is both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future.” —Walter IsaacsonMicrosoft president Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the top of Microsoft, as the company flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with disruption as an end in itself, and in doing so navigates some of the thorniest issues of our time—from privacy to cyberwar to the challenges for democracy, far and near. As the tumultuous events of 2020 brought technology and Big Tech even further into the lives of almost all Americans, Smith and Browne updated the book throughout to reflect a changed world. With three new chapters on cybersecurity, technology and nation-states, and tech in the pandemic, Tools and Weapons is an invaluable resource from the cockpit of one of the world's largest tech companies.

This book develops the concept of'gamble-play media', describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies. Digital gambling brings gambling closer to the practices and features of videogames, as audio-visual simulations structure users'experiences. By studying digital gambling from media studies, videogame and cultural studies approaches, this book offers a new critical perspective on the issues raised by computer-mediated gambling, while expanding our perspective on what media and gambling are. In particular, it critically analyses terrestrial, mobile and online slot machines, online poker and stock trading apps through a selection of case studies.

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online—and the large societal impact of these decisions Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with “fake news” or livestreamed violence, “content moderators”—who censor or promote user†‘posted content—have never been more important. This is especially true when the tools that social media platforms use to curb trolling, ban hate speech, and censor pornography can also silence the speech you need to hear. In this revealing and nuanced exploration, award†‘winning sociologist and cultural observer Tarleton Gillespie provides an overview of current social media practices and explains the underlying rationales for how, when, and why these policies are enforced. In doing so, Gillespie highlights that content moderation receives too little public scrutiny even as it is shapes social norms and creates consequences for public discourse, cultural production, and the fabric of society. Based on interviews with content moderators, creators, and consumers, this accessible, timely book is a must†‘read for anyone who's ever clicked “like” or “retweet.”

Terrorists, subversive political groups and gangs with violent agendas have found an easy and convenient means to promulgate their messages of hate - cyberspace. Whilst debate about the use of the internet by extremist groups rages around governments and media alike, little has hitherto been presented as analysis of the websites themselves. Timely and topical, Antonio Roversi presents an insightful look at the unregulated, anonymous, and easily accessible nature of the Internet and how it has been used to raise funds, recruit, train and promote acts of violence and disorder. This book will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policymakers with an interest in hate crime and the use of the internet as a means of incitement.

Die digitale Transformation als Vernetzung von Menschen, Organisationen, Maschinen, bis hin zu simplen Gegenständen des täglichen Lebens hat mehr oder weniger starke Auswirkungen auf alle Lebensbereiche. Künstliche Intelligenz und autonome technische Systeme haben direkte Auswirkungen auf die Autonomie des Einzelnen, was neue Fragen für Wissenschaft und Praxis aufwirft. In unterschiedlichen Beiträgen werden Autonomiegewinne und -verluste skizziert, die sich unter anderem im Bereich des Rechts, der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien, in Kunst und Gestaltung, bei Kundenbeziehungen, Kryptowährungen, Medieninhalten sowie im digitalen Arbeitsalltag feststellen lassen. Kritische Entwicklungen wie digitale Sorglosigkeit und Tools und Verfahren wie Projektmanagementsoftware oder predictive analytics gilt es dabei zu bewerten. Damit liefert dieser Band einen Überblick zum aktuellen Stand der Diskussion, zeigt Zusammenhänge auf und sensibilisiert für die Gestaltung des digitalen Wandels.Mit Beiträgen vonProf. Dr. Dirk Drechsler, Prof. Dr. Dirk Westhoff, Prof. Daniel Fetzner, Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Werner, Prof. Dr. Stefan Ernst, Prof. Dr. Volker Sänger, Prof. Dr. Erik Zenner, Prof. Dr. Ralf Lankau, Prof. Dr. Christopher Zerres, Kai Rahnenführer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Breyer-Mayländer

Transition pour certains, rupture pour d'autres, l'envahissement du cyber­espace dans nos vies soulève plusieurs questions. Il est rare, dans l'histoire de l'humanité, de constater qu'une innovation technologique transforme autant et en si peu de temps le quotidien des individus, mais aussi les façons de gouverner ou d'analyser le monde. Le présent ouvrage part du constat que nous vivons actuellement une véritable « cybérisation » individuelle et collective. Il souhaite ainsi appréhender les changements sociaux et politiques qu'implique la présence grandissante du cyber­espace dans nos vies. Ce livre répond à trois questionnements généraux : 1 Quels sont les changements sociaux et politiques induits par l'arri­vée, puis l'omniprésence, du cyberespace dans les sociétés occi­den­tales? Sont-ils nombreux et quelles sont leurs répercussions sur le plan politique? 2 Le cyberespace a-t-il aussi provoqué des changements dans la pratique scientifique des politologues? Par exemple, de nouveaux objets ont-ils intéressé la science politique? 3 Les nouvelles technologies ont-elles augmenté les capacités de nos outils de recherche? Si oui, faut-il adapter les méthodes de recherche et leurs techniques à cette nouvelle réalité? Comment le faire? Ce livre expose, entre autres, les changements qu'apporte le cyberespace à l'étude et à la pratique des sciences sociales en général et de la science politique en particulier, mais aussi aux objets d'études de ces domaines.

Los celulares, las computadoras y la Internet poco a poco se han ido convirtiendo en nuestras extensiones para relacionarnos al instante con personas que se pueden encontrar al otro lado del mundo. Este libro es una consideración crítica de estos sistemas, que parecen tener un alcance ilimitado en tiempo y espacio y que crean la experiencia de encontrarnos en casi cualquier parte y de detener el tiempo con mínimo esfuerzo, aunque el precio que haya que pagar por ello son las continuas interrupciones a la vida cotidiana que urgen sean atendidas en este momento.

Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices - computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables - affect nearly all aspects of social life. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new forms of digital life, such as political participation through comments on East Greenlandic news blogs, the personal use of video broadcasting applications, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on global conflicts.

This book explores the concept of cyberplace as a mode of inhabiting the contemporary world. As a result, it suggests that, for many communities, unlocking cyberspace and inhabiting cyberplaces is now an integral part of their coming-to-the-globalised-world. Boos reviews in the detail the existing academic literature from cultural anthropology, human geography, and sociology on “cyberspace”, concluding that a phenomenological perspective on cyberspace provides the possibility of gaining a deep understanding of our contemporary lifeworlds, in which on- and offline practices constantly intermingle. In four chapters, he applies the developed theoretical and methodological approaches to the case of Siena's neighbourhoods, the contrade, analysing their websites and discussing the implications of his findings for understanding contemporary processes of community building and for future research on cyberspace.This concise andaccessible book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in cultural anthropology, human geography, media studies and sociology.

Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Age of Cyberveillance isa collection of articles by distinguished authors from the US and Europe and presents a contemporary perspectives on the limits online of human rights. By considering the latest political events and case law, including the NSA PRISM surveillance program controversy, the planned EU data protection amendments, and the latest European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence, it provides an analysis of the ongoing legal discourse on global cyberveillance.Using examples from contemporary state practice, including content filtering and Internet shutdowns during the Arab Spring as well as the PRISM controversy, the authors identify limits of state and third party interference with individual human rights of Internet users. Analysis is based on existing human rights standards, as enshrined within international law including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, European Convention on Human Rights and recommendations from the Human Rights Council. The definition of human rights, perceived as freedoms and liberties guaranteed to every human being by international legal consensus will be presented based on the rich body on international law.The book is designed to serve as a reference source for early 21st century information policies and on the future of Internet governance and will be useful to scholars in the information studies fields, including computer, information and library science. It is also aimed at scholars in the fields of international law, international relations, diplomacy studies and political science.

One of the most significant and important advancements in information and communication technology over the past 20 years is the introduction and expansion of the Internet. Now almost universally available, the Internet brings us email, global voice and video communications, research repositories, reference libraries, and almost unlimited opportunities for daily activities. Bridging geographical distances in unprecedented ways, the Internet has impacted all aspects of our daily lives – from facilitating the running of businesses, the attainment of services and keeping in touch with friends and family. Accessible at any time and for many of us from our mobile phones, the Internet has opened up a world of knowledge and communication platforms that we cannot now imagine living without. This book explores the concept that the Internet has become a second action space for individuals. Coexisting with traditional and'obvious'real space, the Internet serves as a novel spatial platform and action space to its subscribers all over the world. Kellerman expertly discusses this notion and examines the practical integration of cyberspace with real space. Part I examines the Internet as a platform for action and presents its relations with physical space concerning a range of uses and applications which were traditionally performed in physical space only. It discusses the idea that the Internet has become a second space and explores theoretical perspectives surrounding this notion. The Internet has undeniably made humankind more efficient and connected. Part II explores the Internet as an action space for human life, considering basic human needs, curiosity, identity and social relations. It further considers instances whereby use and application of the Internet cannot be fully performed in real space, mainly regarding people's presentation of identity. Part III explores daily actions over the Internet, such as work, shopping, banking and social interactions. Kellerman also briefly touches on the darker aspects that the expansion of the Internet has made possible – including its role in fraud and other crimes. The concluding chapter discusses people living across the two spaces and identifies potential future developments.The Internet as Second Actions Space will appeal to students across the social sciences, in particular those studying Geography, Sociology, Media Studies, Internet Studies, Business and related disciplines.

Covering topics ranging from web filters to laws aimed at preventing the flow of information, this book explores freedom—and censorship—of the Internet and considers the advantages and disadvantages of policies at each end of the spectrum.Combining reference entries with perspective essays, this timely book undertakes an impartial exploration of Internet censorship, examining the two sides of the debate in depth. On the one side are those who believe censorship, to a greater or lesser degree, is acceptable; on the other are those who play the critical role of information freedom fighters. In Internet Censorship: A Reference Handbook, experts help readers understand these diverse views on Internet access and content viewing, revealing how both groups do what they do and why.The handbook shares key events associated with the Internet's evolution, starting with its beginnings and culminating in the present. It probes the motivation of newsmakers like Julian Assange, the Anonymous, and WikiLeaks hacker groups, and of risk-takers like Private Bradley Manning. It also looks at ways in which Internet censorship is used as an instrument of governmental control and at the legal and moral grounds cited to defend these policies, addressing, for example, why the governments of China and Iran believe it is their duty to protect citizens by filtering online content believed to be harmful.

Informações dos mais diferentes tipos podem hoje ser acessadas de múltiplos pontos no espaço. As mesmas mídias que nos fornecem o acesso são também mídias de comunicação. Redes sem fio e, consequentemente, móveis são a tônica tecnológica do momento. Isso disponibiliza um tipo de comunicação ubíqua, pervasiva e, ao mesmo tempo, corporificada e multiplamente situada, que está também começando a se insinuar nos objetos cotidianos com tecnologia embarcada, a tão falada internet das coisas. Os atuais processos de comunicação se realizam em situações fluidas, múltiplas não apenas no interior das redes, como também nos deslocamentos espaço-temporais efetuados pelos indivíduos. Essa hipermobilidade conectada redunda em ubiquidade desdobrada: ubiquidade dos aparelhos, ubiquidade das redes, ubiquidade da informação, da comunicação, dos objetos e dos ambientes, ubiquidade das cidades, dos corpos e das mentes, ubiquidade da aprendizagem e da vida no escoar do tempo em que é vivida. Este livro examina, sob variados ângulos, como, em função da hipermobilidade, tornamo-nos seres ubíquos, intermitentemente presentes-ausentes, e quais os efeitos colaterais que tal condição acarreta.

How is the internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? What happens to politics when international migration is coupled with digital media, making it easy for people to be politically active in a nation from outside its borders? In Nation as Network, Victoria Bernal creatively combines media studies, ethnography, and African studies to explore this new political paradigm through a striking analysis of how Eritreans in diaspora have used the internet to shape the course of Eritrean history. Bernal argues that Benedict Anderson's famous concept of nations as “imagined communities” must now be rethought because diasporas and information technologies have transformed the ways nations are sustained and challenged. She traces the development of Eritrean diaspora websites over two turbulent decades that saw the Eritrean state grow ever more tyrannical. Through Eritreans'own words in posts and debates, she reveals how new subjectivities are formed and political action is galvanized online. She suggests that “infopolitics”—struggles over the management of information—make politics in the 21st century distinct, and she analyzes the innovative ways Eritreans deploy the internet to support and subvert state power. Nation as Network is a unique and compelling work that advances our understanding of the political significance of digital media.

First published in 2002. In Cybertypes, Lisa Nakamura turn sour assumption that the Net is color-blind on its head. Examining all facets of everyday web-life, she shows that racial and ethnic stereotypes, or'cybertypes'are hardwired into our online interactions: Identity tourists masquerade in chat rooms as Asian_Geisha or Alatiniolover. Web directories sharply delimit racial categories. Anonymous computer users are assumed to be white. Lively, provocative, Cybertypes takes up computer relationship between race, ethnicity and technology and offers a candid and nuanced understanding of identity in the information age.

Myriam Quemener, responsable du pôle criminel au tribunal de grande instance de Créteil, nous livre une analyse des conséquences du cyberespace, fabuleux espace de liberté, sur les comportements humains, le travail, les loisirs, les achats, la vie sociale en générale. Mais, elle aborde également les escroqueries, le cyber-harcèlement, jusqu'à la cybercriminalité et l'apparition du concept de cybervictime. Cet ouvrage propose aussi des solutions pratiques et des conseils pour se protéger efficacement.

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. At present cyberculture is a dominating cultural paradigm and nothing seems to be able to replace it. We globally share the same cyberspace but there is a question whether we all together–the whole humankind–are really living in the same cyberculture? This book proves that we rather tend to define the contemporary state of culture as cybercultures. The process of spreading technologies, trends and ideas is not the same in all parts of the world. The varying speeds of this process and cultural diversity of its forms are created by different social, political, economic and cultural contexts. By representing different perspectives the authors depict a wide spectrum of the most important current problems connected with networked life, global sharing of data, loss of privacy, new meanings of community and developments in narrative structures and social behaviours arising from new communication possibilities, instantaneity of information and global viral sensitivity.

Why are there so many nature metaphors - clouds, rivers, streams, viruses, and bugs - in the language of the internet? Why do we adorn our screens with exotic images of forests, waterfalls, animals and beaches? In Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace, Sue Thomas interrogates the prevalence online of nature-derived metaphors and imagery and comes to a surprising conclusion. The root of this trend, she believes, lies in biophilia, defined by biologist E.O. Wilson as'the innate attraction to life and lifelike processes'. In this wide-ranging transdisciplinary study she explores the strong thread of biophilia which runs through our online lives, a phenomenon she calls'technobiophilia', or, the'innate attraction to life and lifelike processes as they appear in technology'. The restorative qualities of biophilia can alleviate mental fatigue and enhance our capacity for directed attention, soothing our connected minds and easing our relationship with computers.Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace offers new insights on what is commonly known as'work-life balance'. It explores ways to make our peace with technology-induced anxiety and achieve a'tech-nature balance'through practical experiments designed to enhance our digital lives indoors, outdoors, and online.The book draws on a long history of literature on nature and technology and breaks new ground as the first to link the two. Its accessible style will attract the general reader, whilst the clear definition of key terms and concepts throughout should appeal to undergraduates and postgraduates of new media and communication studies, internet studies, environmental psychology, and human-computer interaction. www.technobiophilia.com

Cybercultures: Mediations of Community, Culture, Politics, is a collection of essays that critically examine the role that digital media and online cultures play in the rearticulation of contemporary societies, cultures and polities. This volume interrogates the nature and effects of the existence of cybercultures in the world of Web 2.0, new media and media convergence, and mobile digital networks. It does so by examining the effect of cybercultures upon the contemporary articulation of phenomena as diverse as bodily experience, memory, the imagination, history, political participation, the nature of community, artistic creativity, and the instability of rhetoric, language and meaning.

The content of this volume reflects theoretical and practical discussions on cultural issues influenced by increased adoption of information and communication technologies. The penetration of new forms of communication, such as online social networking, internet video-casting, and massive online multiplayer gaming; the experience and exploration of virtual worlds; and the massive adoption of ever-emergent ICT technologies; are all developments in desperate need of serious examination. It is not surprising that these new realities, and the questions and issues to which they give rise, have drawn increasing attention from academics. Those engaging these issues do so from a wide range of academic fields. Accordingly, the authors contributing to this volume represent an impressive array of academic disciplines and varied perspectives, including philosophy, sociology, religion, anthropology, digital humanities, literature studies, film science, new media studies and still others. Thus, the subsequent chapters offer the reader a multidimensional examination of this volume's unifying theme: the ways and extent to which current and anticipated cybernetic environments have altered, and will continue to shape, our understandings of what it means to be human.

In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable, whether alternative futures might be in development, and what other possible futures might demand of education.Drawing on ten years of research into educational innovation and socio-technical change, working with educators, researchers, digital industries, students and policy-makers, this book questions taken-for-granted assumptions about the future of education. Arguing that we have been working with too narrow a vision of the future, Keri Facer makes a case for recognizing the challenges that the next two decades may bring, including: the emergence of new relationships between humans and technologythe opportunities and challenges of aging populationsthe development of new forms of knowledge and democracythe challenges of climate warming and environmental disruptionthe potential for radical economic and social inequalities.This book describes the potential for these developments to impact critical aspects of education – including adult-child relationships, social justice, curriculum design, community relationships and learning ecologies. Packed with examples from around the world and utilising vital research undertaken by the author while Research Director at the UK's Futurelab, the book helps to bring into focus the risks and opportunities for schools, students and societies over the coming two decades. It makes a powerful case for rethinking the relationship between education and social and technological change, and presents a set of key strategies for creating schools better able to meet the emerging needs of their students and communities. An important contribution to the debates surrounding educational futures, this book is compelling reading for all of those, including educators, researchers, policy-makers and students, who are asking the question'how can education help us to build desirable futures for everyone in the context of social and technological change?'

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2011. Cultural Cyborgs: Life at the Interface is a collection of essays arising from the 6th Global Conference on Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues, held as a part of Cyber Hub activity in Prague, Czech Republic in March 2011. The papers explore the augmented lives of people, communities and society at the interface between cyberspace and ‘real space.'This edge between realms allows for cultural hybridisation, which can enhance the lives, relationships and understanding of those who actively engage. However, this augmentation has far reaching implications not only for the lives of the cultural cyborgs, but also for the political, commercial and legal sectors and even the way we conceptualise and construct cyberspace itself. The ebook begins by questioning identity formation in this hybridised existence, and many of the essays continue to explore how certain communities (disabled people, people with eating disorders, parts of the gay community, indie music bands and even horror movie fans) use cyberspace to enhance and support their online/offline identities. Other essays question how we conceptualise our interactions in cyberspace, from visions of the space itself, through to representations of bodies made corporal, online scandals, and constructions of hacker identities in the courtroom. The book concludes with a series of papers which investigate how offline activities are co-opting social networking in the areas of corporate communication, civic engagement and political campaigning. Each essay explores a different aspect of the hybrid cultural and social existence which is cyberculture, and together they form a fascinating glimpse at this rich, diverse and rapidly developing cultural formation.

In the twenty-first century educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable, whether alternative futures might be in development, and what other possible futures might demand of education.?Drawing on ten years of research into educational innovation and socio-technical change, working with educators, researchers, digital industries, students and policy-makers, this book questions.

To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies, ergonomics, and efficiency; in doing so, he shows how creativity is stirred within the networks of digital culture. Noise Channels offers a fresh look at hypertext and tactical media, tunes into laptop music, and situates the emergent forms of computer gaming and machinima in media history. Krapp analyzes text, image, sound, virtual spaces, and gestures in noisy channels of computer-mediated communication that seek to embrace—rather than overcome—the limitations and misfires of computing. Equally at home with online literature, the visual tactics of hacktivism, the recuperation of glitches in sound art, electronica, and videogames, or machinima as an emerging media practice, he explores distinctions between noise and information, and how games pivot on errors at the human–computer interface. Grounding the digital humanities in the conditions of possibility of computing culture, Krapp puts forth his insight on the critical role of information in the creative process.

Das Buch ist für Praktiker in der Tourismusbranche und Akademiker gleichermaßen geeignet und zeigt in anschaulicher Weise die Mechanismen und Prinzipien des Social Webs im Tourismus auf. In den Beiträgen werden sowohl die theoretischen Grundlagen als auch die praktischen Anwendungen des Social Web erläutert, viele Best Practice Beispiele illustrieren die Thematik. Dem Leser werden die Bedeutung und die grundlegenden Mechanismen des Social Webs verständlich aufgezeigt, so dass er zukünftige Aktivitäten im Internet besser planen und auf neue Entwicklungen abstimmen kann. Das Buch richtet sich damit an Internetverantwortliche und Leistungsträger sowohl in Destinationen als auch an Reiseveranstalter und Intermediäre im Tourismus. Es unterstützt die touristische Praxis der genannten Akteure durch Verstehensmodelle, Beispiele und Handlungsanweisungen. Auch für Tourismuswissenschaftler ist das Buch ein Einstieg in die touristische Praxis des Social Web.

This book is a collection of selected essays presented at the International Symposium on «Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity» hosted by the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University in September 2006. As «modernity» has been used to describe the cultural, economic and socio-political conditions in the Western worlds, the time in which we now live and the Asian countries where capitalistic transformation is extensively carried out are already articulating their own descriptions. The essays collected here discuss the notions of «contemporary», «Asia» and «modernities» as they relate to the global trend of adopting capitalism. They probe into questions related to modernity as well as global modernity, ranging from China in particular to Asia in general. As reflected in the pluriversal meanings in the title, the book endeavours to make critical inquiries into the concept of modernity/modernities from different perspectives.

What does it mean to ‘belong'to an online community? What happens to the body in cyberspace? How has the Internet been theorised: as a site of liberation, duplicity, threat? In her reading of cyberculture studies after the affective turn, the author argues for a new cyberculture studies that goes beyond dominant cultural narratives of the Internet as dystopian or utopian space, and pays attention to the ways in which online culture has become embedded in everyday lives. The book intervenes in narratives of virtual reality to propose that the Internet can be re-read as a space of fantasy. This book draws on readings of the everyday, taken-for-granted sites of digital culture that have often been overlooked by cyberculture studies. Specific themes include religious fundamentalist sites and hate speech, online mourning, vampire homepages, virtual fashion and food shopping sites, and pro-anorexic communities. The book is attentive to the continuities and disruptions between online and offline experience. The author examines the ways in which bodies, subjects and communities are produced and reproduced through the stories we tell about online belongings.

As the title indicates, this book highlights the shifting and emergent features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning. Cybercultures in themselves are complex conglomerations of ideas, philosophies, concepts, and theories, some of which are fiercely contradictory. As a construct,'cyberculture'is a result of sustained attempts by diverse groups of people to make sense of multifarious activities, linguistic codes, and practices in complicated and ever-changing settings. It is an impossibly convoluted field. Any valid understanding of cyberculture can only be gained from living within it, and as Bell suggests, it is'made up of people, machines and stories in everyday life.'Although this book contains a mix of perspectives, as the chapters progress, readers should detect some common threads. Technology-mediated activities are featured throughout, each evoking its particular cultural nuances and, as Derrick de Kerckhove (1997) has eloquently argued, technology acts as the skin of culture. All the authors are passionate about their subjects, every one engages critically with his or her topics, and each is fully committed to the belief that e-learning is a vitally important component in the future of education. All of the authors believe that digital learning environments will contribute massively to the success of the information society we now inhabit. Each is intent on exploration of the touchstone of'any time, any place'learning where temporal and spatial contexts cease to become barriers to learning, and where the boundaries are blurring between the formal and informal. This book is divided into four sections. In Part I, which has been titled'Digital Subcultures,'we begin an exploration of “culture” and attempt to locate the learner within a number of digital subcultures that have arisen around new and emerging technologies such as mobile and handheld devices, collaborative online spaces, and podcasting. The chapters in this section represent attempts by the authors to demonstrate that there are many subdivisions present on the Web, and that online learners cannot and should not be represented as one vast amorphous mass of'Internet'users.

People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralised production thrives on blogs, wikis and free software projects. Cyberchiefs focuses on the regulations of these working relationships. It examines the transformation of leadership and expertise in online networks, and the emergence of innovative forms of participatory politics. What are the costs and benefits of alternatives to hierarchical organisation? Using case studies of online projects or'tribes'such as the radical Primitivism archive, Daily Kos, the Debian free software project and Wikipedia, this book shows that leaders must support maximum autonomy for participants, and looks at the tensions generated by this distribution of authority.