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Technology for facilitating humanity and combating social deviations : interdisciplinary perspectives /

"This book presents socio-technical approaches to support the prevention, mitigation, and elimination of social deviations with the help of computer science and technology, providing historical backgrounds, experimental studies, and future perspectives on the use of computing tools to prevent a...

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Corporate Authors: IGI Global
Group Author: Vargas Martin, Miguel, 1973- (Editor); Garcia-Ruiz, Miguel A., 1970- (Editor); Edwards, Arthur, 1957- (Editor)
Published: IGI Global,
Publisher Address: Hershey, Pa. :
Publication Dates: 2011.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects.
Social problems.
Corporate social responsibility
Cross cultural virtual learning environments
Cyberbullying model for a social network
Designing usable security feedback
Distributed and collaborative environments supporting emergency and relief activities
Investigating digital child pornography
Preventing and reducing social discrimination
Technological approaches for hate crimes
Technology for dealing with crimes against children
Using ICT to foster human right defense processes
Online Access: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-60960-094-5
Summary: "This book presents socio-technical approaches to support the prevention, mitigation, and elimination of social deviations with the help of computer science and technology, providing historical backgrounds, experimental studies, and future perspectives on the use of computing tools to prevent and deal with physical, psychological and social problems that impact society as a whole"--Provided by publisher.
Carrier Form: PDFs (286 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781609600969 (ebook)
Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Index Number: HM851
CLC: G201
Contents: 1. Digital child pornography / Frank Law ... [et al.] -- 2. Child pornography and IT / Amin Ibrahim -- 3. Adult pornography, male peer support, and violence against women / Walter DeKeseredy, Patrik Olsson -- 4. Improving the quality of life of senior citizens by preventing and reducing their social discrimination through interactive television and ubiquitous computing / Pedro Santana ... [et al.] -- 5. Multiagents system applied on a cyberbullying model for a social network / Alberto Ochoa ... [et al.] -- 6. Examining race hate crime with students using a cross cultural international virtual learning environment (VLE) / Julian Buchanan, Steve Wilson, Nirmala Gopal -- 7. Humanitarian demining action plan / Maki Habib -- 8. Using ICT to foster human rights defense processes for Mexican immigrants / Maria Silva, Juan Contreras-Castillo, Ricardo Acosta-D iaz -- 9. Web-based multi-user distributed and collaborative environment supporting emergency and relief activities / Maki Habib -- 10. "Ethics" and "Social responsibility" in financial crises as parameters of the financial environment / Alex Stefan, Doru Ursutiu, Cornel Samoila -- 11. Law, deviation and paradigmatic change / Stefan Larsson, H akan Hyd en -- 12. The case of "Illicit appropriation" in the use of technology / Eduardo G amez, Rodrigo Nieto-G omez -- 13. Designing usable security feedback for Web-filtering systems / Ricardo Mendoza-Gonz alez, Jaime Arteaga, Francisco Rodr iguez -- 14. Human factors required for building NLP systems / Daout Daoud, Samir Abou El-Seoud.

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