Digital Infrastructures
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Author |
: Rae Zimmerman |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415324610 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415324618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital Infrastructures by : Rae Zimmerman
Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It is geared to provide the new infrastructure professional with state of the art concepts.
Author |
: Sangeet Kumar |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2021-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253056504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253056500 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Digital Frontier by : Sangeet Kumar
The global web and its digital ecosystem can be seen as tools of emancipation, communication, and spreading knowledge or as means of control, fueled by capitalism, surveillance, and geopolitics. The Digital Frontier interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem it has spawned to reveal how their conventions, protocols, standards, and algorithmic regulations represent a novel form of global power. Sangeet Kumar shows the operation of this power through the web's "infrastructures of control" visible at sites where the universalizing imperatives of the web run up against local values, norms, and cultures. These include how the idea of the "global common good" is used as a ruse by digital oligopolies to expand their private enclosures, how seemingly collaborative spaces can simultaneously be exclusionary as they regulate legitimate knowledge, how selfhood is being redefined online along Eurocentric ideals, and how the web's political challenge is felt differentially by sovereign nation states. In analyzing this new modality of cultural power in the global digital ecosystem, The Digital Frontier is an important read for scholars, activists, academics and students inspired by the utopian dream of a truly representative global digital network.
Author |
: Thomas Horan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2004-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134345632 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134345631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital Infrastructures by : Thomas Horan
Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It is geared to provide the new infrastructure professional with state of the art concepts.
Author |
: Stine VOLMAR |
Publisher |
: Recursions |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2021-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9463727426 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789463727426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time by : Stine VOLMAR
Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures, the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization on the temporalities of lived experience and have important ramifications for social relations, stratifications of power, practices of cooperation, and ways of life. Interdisciplinary in method and international in scope, the volume draws together insights from media and communication studies, cultural studies, and science and technology studies while staging an important encounter between two distinct approaches to the temporal patterning of media infrastructures, a North American strain emphasizing the social and cultural experiences of lived time and a European tradition, prominent especially in Germany, focusing on technological time and time-critical processes.
Author |
: Stefan Brands |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2000-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262261669 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262261661 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates by : Stefan Brands
Stefan Brands proposes cryptographic building blocks for the design of digital certificates that preserve privacy without sacrificing security. As paper-based communication and transaction mechanisms are replaced by automated ones, traditional forms of security such as photographs and handwritten signatures are becoming outdated. Most security experts believe that digital certificates offer the best technology for safeguarding electronic communications. They are already widely used for authenticating and encrypting email and software, and eventually will be built into any device or piece of software that must be able to communicate securely. There is a serious problem, however, with this unavoidable trend: unless drastic measures are taken, everyone will be forced to communicate via what will be the most pervasive electronic surveillance tool ever built. There will also be abundant opportunity for misuse of digital certificates by hackers, unscrupulous employees, government agencies, financial institutions, insurance companies, and so on.In this book Stefan Brands proposes cryptographic building blocks for the design of digital certificates that preserve privacy without sacrificing security. Such certificates function in much the same way as cinema tickets or subway tokens: anyone can establish their validity and the data they specify, but no more than that. Furthermore, different actions by the same person cannot be linked. Certificate holders have control over what information is disclosed, and to whom. Subsets of the proposed cryptographic building blocks can be used in combination, allowing a cookbook approach to the design of public key infrastructures. Potential applications include electronic cash, electronic postage, digital rights management, pseudonyms for online chat rooms, health care information storage, electronic voting, and even electronic gambling.
Author |
: Claudia Koschtial |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2021-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030662622 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030662624 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis e-Science by : Claudia Koschtial
This open access book shows the breadth and various facets of e-Science, while also illustrating their shared core. Changes in scientific work are driven by the shift to grid-based worlds, the use of information and communication systems, and the existential infrastructure, which includes global collaboration. In this context, the book addresses emerging issues such as open access, collaboration and virtual communities and highlights the diverse range of developments associated with e-Science. As such, it will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of information technology and knowledge management.
Author |
: Daniela Piana |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2020-12-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000294453 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000294455 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legal Services and Digital Infrastructures by : Daniela Piana
This book seeks to provide and promote a better understanding and a more responsive and inclusive governance of the automation and digital devices in public institutions, particularly the law and justice sector. Concerns related to AI design and use have been exacerbated recently with the recognition of the discriminatory potential that can be embedded into AI applications in public service institutions. This book examines issues relating to the assigning of responsibility in a public service produced and delivered on the basis of an automated mechanism. It encourages critical thinking about the legal services and the justice institutions as they are transformed by AI and automation. It raises awareness as to the prospect of transformation we face in terms of responsibility and of agency and the need to design a citizen-centered and human rights compliant system of technology assessment and AI monitoring and evaluation. The book calls for a comprehensive strategy to enable professional practitioners and decision makers to engage in the design of AI driven legal and justice services. The work draws on on-going research and consulting activities carried out by the author across different countries and different systems in the legal and justice sector. The book offers a critical approach to encourage a new mindset among legal professionals and the justice institutions thus empowering and training them to develop the necessary responsiveness and accountability in the justice sector and legal systems. It will also be of interest to researchers and academics working in the area of AI, Public Law, Human Rights and Criminal Justice.
Author |
: Agiatis Benardou |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 2017-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317156512 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131715651X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities by : Agiatis Benardou
What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings, both in terms of new tools and archives, and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public.
Author |
: Prince K. Guma |
Publisher |
: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V. |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2021-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789463013253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9463013253 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rethinking Smart Urbanism by : Prince K. Guma
Rethinking Smart Urbanism is an empirical exploration of the multiple ways in which cities and infrastructures are constructed and reconstructed through ICT innovation and appropriation. Drawing on the case of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the study explains existing infrastructure constellations through countervailing processes and rationalities in the context of splintered urbanism. In doing so, the study examines the relationship between urban plans and digital infrastructure development, place-based contexts that shape digital infrastructures, and the extent to which these infrastructures facilitate utility companies’ ambitions of extending centralized networks to new territories. It draws on the theoretical and empirical base of urban and infrastructure studies, particularly in the fields of smart urbanism, postcolonial urbanism, and Science and Technology Studies. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative research design and presents in-depth case studies that combine ethnographic methods with a thorough investigation of written sources. Ultimately, it is hoped to enhance our understanding of urban and digital possibilities, and add new insights to debates on technology and urbanity in Africa and beyond.
Author |
: Eric Monteiro |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2022-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262372299 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262372290 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital Oil by : Eric Monteiro
How is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand work and ways of knowing? Digitalization sits at the forefront of public and academic conversation today, calling into question how we work and how we know. In Digital Oil, Eric Monteiro uses the Norwegian offshore oil and gas industry as a lens to investigate the effects of digitalization on embodied labor, and in doing so shows how our use of new digital technology transforms work and knowing. For years, roughnecks have performed the dangerous and unwieldy work of extracting the oil that lies three miles below the seabed along the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Today, the Norwegian oil industry is largely digital, operated by sensors and driven by data. Digital representations of physical processes inform work practices and decision-making with remotely operated, unmanned deep-sea facilities. Drawing on two decades of in-depth interviews, observations, news clips, and studies of this industry, Eric Monteiro dismantles the divide between the virtual and the physical in Digital Oil. What is gained or lost when objects and processes become algorithmic phenomena with the digital inferred from the physical? How can data-driven work practices and operational decision-making approximate qualitative interpretation, professional judgement, and evaluation? How are emergent digital platforms and infrastructures, as machineries of knowing, enabling digitalization? In answering these questions Monteiro offers a novel analysis of digitalization as an effort to press the limits of quantification of the qualitative.