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	Browse All Reviews > Computing Milieux (K) > Computers And Society (K.4) > Social Issues (K.4.2)     Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending     1-10 of 161 Reviews about "Social Issues (K.4.2)": Date Reviewed   Man-made women: the sexual politics of sex dolls and sex robots Richardson K., Odlind C., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2023. 212 pp.  Type: Book (3031193806) People with unconventional or even perverse desires sometimes search for alternatives to real human beings. This has led to the development of sex dolls and sex robots, referred to as “man-made women” in this book. However alarming, th... Mar 21 2024   A history of fake things on the Internet Scheirer W., Stanford University Press, Redwood City, CA, 2023. 264 pp.  Type: Book (9781503632882) With the advent of the Internet, changing perceptions of reality and “fakeness” have impacted user decisions to expose or hide their social identities. The positives of using or working with the Internet encourage real identities, wher... Mar 20 2024   Ethical and social issues in the Information Age (7th ed.) Kizza J., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 420 pp.  Type: Book (9783031248627) The curricular standards for a bachelor’s degree in computer science (and related programs) requires instruction on the ethics and professional conduct of practitioners. Often there is a separate course that students are required to take. It... Nov 27 2023   Living with algorithms: agency and user culture in Costa Rica Siles I., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2023. 234 pp.  Type: Book (026254542X) This book focuses on how people in Costa Rica live with algorithms. More specifically, the author studies how Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok users in that country associate with those platforms.... Sep 7 2023    Augmented humanity: being and remaining agentic in a digitalized world Bryant P., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2021. 269 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-030764-44-9) Augmented humanity can be defined as “a human–computer integration technology that proposes to improve capacity and productivity by changing or increasing the normal ranges of human function through the restoration or extension of human phys... Oct 5 2022    System error: where big tech went wrong and how we can reboot Reich R., Sahami M., Weinstein J., HarperCollins, New York, NY, 2021. 352 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-063064-88-1) Today’s massive technology companies are maximizing profit through optimization, efficiency, and, in the opinion of some, a dystopian obsession with algorithms, surveillance, and control. While some contemporary authors such ... Jun 28 2022    Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication Gehl R., Lawson S., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2022. 344 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262543-45-3) The book’s subtitle is a fitting 13-word summary of what it is about. The book taught me that social engineering is a polite, obfuscating, nonthreatening label for the pernicious, amoral manipulation of people to accomplish s... May 13 2022    Inclusive design for a digital world: designing with accessibility in mind Gilbert R., Apress, New York, NY, 2019. 272 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484250-15-0) Having taught courses in user-centered design (UCD) and human-computer interaction (HCI) for over 20 years, I am familiar with both the history of the field and the methods and tools currently in use. On several occasions, I’... Sep 7 2021   A practical guide to digital forensics investigations (2nd ed.) Hayes D., Pearson, Boston, MA, 2021. 677 pp.  Type: Book (978-7-897599-18-3) Digital forensics has gained much interest in recent decades. Computing devices are widespread and used for countless applications. As a result, a huge number of digital traces can be fetched, analyzed, and, in case of a crime, used as... Jul 28 2021    Blown to bits: your life, liberty, and happiness after the digital explosion (2nd ed.) Abelson H., Ledeen K., Lewis H., Seltzer W., Pearson, Boston, MA, 2020. 336 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-348500-17-9) Technology has generated cultural anxiety throughout history [1]. Digital technologies are no exception. Digitalization anxiety greatly relates to high levels of uncertainty regarding the implications brought by “the integrat... Jun 9 2021       Display 510152550100 per page
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