"Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfun

Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany, in April 2003.

Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is

A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality Online privacy is und

This book marks an important contribution to the fascinating debate on the role that information infrastructures and boundary objects play in contemporary life,