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"Digital technology is about people, about those who plan, develop, implement applications which other people use. It is about the impact on these people as well as on the world at large. This book takes a practical perspective to explore these impacts over time and discover ways in which to promote ethical digital technology through good practice"--

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Technology, Governance and Markets -- Chapter 2. The promise and prospects of blockchain-based decentralized business models -- Chapter 3. Rendering value from urban digital geographies: Innovation, markets and slow AI -- Chapter 4. Personal AI to maximize the value of personal data while defending human rights and democracy -- Chapter 5. Assembling the geographic information market in the United States -- Chapter 6. Big data without big brothers: The potential of gentle rule-enforcement -- Part II: Technology, Learning and Decision-Making -- Chapter 7. On the need to understand human behavior to do analytics of behavior -- Chapter 8. Boosting consumers: Algorithm-supported decision-making under uncertainty to (learn to) navigate algorithm-based decision environments -- Chapter 9. Orientation to the use of care robots in care services: The encounter of knowledge and technology -- Chapter 10. The datafication of knowledge production and consequences for the pursuit of social justice -- Part III: Entrepreneurship, Digital Labor and Civic Engagement -- Chapter 11. Europe's scaleup geography and the role of access to talent -- Chapter 12. The relational spaces of digital labour -- Chapter 13. Thinking about cyborg activism -- Chapter 14. Data-based frictions in civic action: Trust, technology and participation.

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over—and upending—nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ubiquitous digital tools and platforms. Digital Technology and Democratic Theory looks closely at one significant facet of our rapidly evolving digital lives: how technology is radically changing our lives as citizens and participants in democratic governments. To understand these transformations, this book brings together contributions by scholars from multiple disciplines to wrestle with the question of how digital technologies shape, reshape, and affect fundamental questions about democracy and democratic theory. As expectations have whiplashed—from Twitter optimism in the wake of the Arab Spring to Facebook pessimism in the wake of the 2016 US election—the time is ripe for a more sober and long-term assessment. How should we take stock of digital technologies and their promise and peril for reshaping democratic societies and institutions? To answer, this volume broaches the most pressing technological changes and issues facing democracy as a philosophy and an institution

"One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over-and upending-nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship-all transformed by now-ubiquitous digital tools and platforms. Digital Technology and Democratic Theory explores a particularly unsettling and rapidly evolving facet of our new digital lives: transformations that affect our lives as citizens and participants in democratic governments. To understand these transformations, scholars from multiple disciplines (computer science, philosophy, political science, economics, history, and media and communications/journalism) wrestle with the question of how digital technologies shape, reshape, and affect fundamental questions about democracy and democratic theory. The contributors consider what democratic theory-broadly defined as normative theorizing about the values and institutional design of democracy-can bring to the practice of digital technologies. From the connectivity and transmission of information that has inspired positive change through movements such as the Arab Spring and #MeToo to the nefarious spread of distrust and outright disruption in democratic processes, this volume broaches the most pressing technological changes and issues facing not just individual states, but democracy as a philosophy and institution"--

AbstractObjectiveThis research aims to investigate metric characteristics of the digital technology preoccupation scale and the possibility of predicting life satisfaction in children from 8 to 13 years, based on time spent using digital technology and preoccupation with digital technology.MethodParticipants are 1072 children aged 8 to 13 years and their parents who agreed to participate in the study. Using pen and paper questionnaires, children provided data on their life satisfaction and preoccupation with digital technology (DT), and their parents assessed the average time children used DT during a typical day in a week or during the weekend.ResultsDigital technology preoccupation scale showed good metric characteristics with all five items loading on one factor and good reliability. Boys and older children show more preoccupation with digital technology and lower life satisfaction. Also, boys use DT during the weekend longer than girls. After controlling for the effect of age and gender, and duration of DT use, preoccupation with digital technology explained 3% of the variance of life satisfaction. The total model explained 9% of variance.ConclusionFindings from this study show that preoccupation with digital technology is an important factor to be considered concerning children's life satisfaction, beyond the contribution of time spent using DT.

Relevant International Human Rights and Humanitarian Declarations and Treaties -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: A Question of Balance -- 1.1 Historical Overview -- 1.2 Five Critical Issues -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Great Debate on Wireless Technology -- 2.1 The Regulator's Dilemma -- 2.2 Contested Science and Technology -- 2.3 Measuring the Biological Impact of EMF -- 2.4 Setting Standards -- 2.5 Legislative Dearth in the USA and Europe -- 2.6 Grassroots Activism in Paris -- 2.7 Expanding the Regulatory Framework -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: User Privacy in a World of Digital Surveillance -- 3.1 Privacy Threats in Digital Systems -- 3.2 The Legal Framework for Privacy -- 3.3 Privacy-by-Design -- 3.4 Digital Privacy as a Collective Value -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Cases -- Chapter 4: Online Censorship -- 4.1 New (and Old) Censorship Theory -- 4.2 Censorship Technology in China and in Europe -- 4.3 Freedom of Expression in China and in Europe -- 4.4 Contested Content and the Impact of Censorship -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: The Internet of Things -- 5.1 Internet of Things Scenario One: Enabling the Disabled -- 5.2 Wireless Technology -- 5.3 Internet of Things Scenario Two: Tracking User Profiles -- 5.4 Location Privacy Issues -- 5.5 Legal Ownership of Global Public Goods -- 5.6 Extending Rousseau's Social Contract -- 5.7 Scenario Three: What a Day! -- 5.8 The Internet of Things-Technology -- 5.9 Human-Machine Protocols -- 5.10 Killer Robots, Prostheses, and Avatars -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Teaching Human Rights and Digital Technology -- 6.1 Progressive Rights -- 6.2 Attention in the Blended Classroom -- 6.3 Teaching Human Rights and Digital Technology -- 6.4 Digital Learning and Higher Education -- Notes -- Bibliography

This element shows, based on a review of the literature, how digital technology has affected liberal democracies with a focus on three key aspects of democratic politics: political communication, political participation, and policy-making. The impact of digital technology permeates the entire political process, affecting the flow of information among citizen and political actors, the connection between the mass public and political elites, and the development of policy responses to societal problems. This element discusses how digital technology has shaped these different domains, identifies areas of research consensus as well as unresolved questions, and argues that a key perspective involves issue definition, that is, how the nature of the problems raised by digital technology is subject to political contestation.

Our dependency on digital technology keeps growing. Do we understand the positives and negatives of being so dependent? This book helps everyone answer these questions through stories, pictures, and poems. It is a reflection on how to get the best out of digital technology, but not at the expense of others or of the world at large

You will find in this book a fascinating critical analysis about digital technology from a humanistic perspective.... You will enjoy pictures, poems, stories, and quotations that should encourage self-reflection and community discussion about your real life, your digital life, and the role of technology in society..... This book is oriented towards anyone and everyone, breaking the academic and professional barriers thereby increasing universal awareness of the importance of the ethical concerns surrounding digital technology.--Mario Arias Oliva, Profesor Titular de Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Our dependency on digital technology keeps growing. Are we happy with this? Do we understand the positives and negatives of being so dependent? Imagine! Ethical Digital Technology for Everyone will help everyone to better understand these issues through the use of stories, pictures and poems which explore the world of digital technology. The aim is to demystify and encourage the reader to reflect on how to get the best out of digital technology, but not at the expense of others or of the world at large. This unique book has something for everyone regardless of age, background or technological awareness. It will help to give the reader the confidence to challenge societally unacceptable and promote societally beneficial digital technology offerings. The book is a meeting between technology and the creative arts as our lives become more and more technologically dependent. It aligns with the transition of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics), which aims to promote creativity and curiosity. The book has four facets: short stories, quotations, pictures (many of which are schematics) and poetry about the social and ethical issues surrounding digital technology. Through a lens of creative arts, the book maps the evolution of digital technology from its infancy through to glimpses of the future. This includes many first-hand examples from the 1970s onwards. Alongside this account, surrounding ethical and social issues are portrayed. These two elements are synthesized to encourage thought about how the challenges of evolving digital technology can be met thus leading to social benefit for all of us.