This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the ℓ́ℓInternational Association for Computing and Philosophyℓ́ℓ (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years. The theme of the papers is the two-way relation between computing technologies and philosophical quest…
Introduces students to the social, legal and ethical issues raised by the development of software. The book covers the subject from a UK perspective and uses contemporary examples to illustrate key issues.
"As a social space, the web provides researchers both with a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life. As a site of mediated interactions and interrelationships, the digital has evolved from being a space of information to a space of creation, thus pro…
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over…
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over…