Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family
Thoroughly updates the first edition by addressing the significant advances in data-driven technologies, their intrusion deeper in our lives, the limits on data collection newly required by governments in North America and Europe, and the new security challenges of a world rife with ransomware and hacking.
We do not have to hate or fear technology. It is neither friend nor foe. But understanding its impact on our daily lives is paramount to cultivating a healthier relationship both with our digital lives and our real, lived ones. Loretta Brady shows us how in Technology Touchpoints.
A sociological approach to understanding new media's impact on society We use cell phones, computers, and tablets to access the Internet, read the news, watch television, chat with our friends, make our appointments, and post on social networking sites. New media provide the backdrop for most of our encounters. We swim in a technological world ......
This book addresses the problems of everyday life faced by twenty-first-century individuals and explores practical questions central to philosophy of life: What is a good life? What makes a life good or satisfactory? What is the proper aim of life?
Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialisms Materialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back to antiquity, is currently undergoing a renaissance. In The Government of Things, Thomas Lemke provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of this "new materialism". In analyzing the ......
Crowdsourcing the Law engages in-depth qualitative analysis of online discussions of contemporary sexual assault cases to explore how law is interpreted and applied by everyday participants on social media.
The debate surrounding the transformation of work at the hands of digital technology and the anxieties brought forth by automation, the sharing economy, and the exploitation of leisure We have been told that digital technology is now threatening the workplace as we know it, that advances in computing and robotics will soon make human labor ......
How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems, but what if they actually helped solve them? This question drives Karen Schrier's Knowledge Games, which seeks to uncover the potentials and ......
Provides an examination of changes in technology that impact individuals as they age, with an emphasis upon cultural contexts and person-environment fit from human factors, psychological, and sociological perspectives. This book also discusses topics such as human factors and aging, the impact of the internet, and assistive technology.