The Shaping of Ambient Intelligence and the Internet of Things Historico-epistemic, Socio-cultural, Politico-institutional and Eco-environmental Dimensions /

• Main Author: Bibri, Simon Elias (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Atlantis Press : Imprint: Atlantis Press, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence, 10
• Subjects: Computer science.; Philosophy and science.; Computers and civilization.; Mass media.; Communication.; Social sciences in mass media.; Computer Science.; Computers and Society.; Media Sociology.; Philosophy of Science.

Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to a major alteration in technology use and thus daily liv...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Understanding the Research and Academic Field of STS
• Conceptual Background, Theoretical Framework, Academic Discourses, and Research Methodologies
• The Nature and Practices of AmI: Historical a Priori, Epistemic, Institutional, Political, and Socio–cultural Perspectives
• Paradigmatic and Discursive Dimensions of AmI and the IoT and Knowledge/Power Relations, Subject Positioning, and Legitimation
• AmI and the IoT and Environmental and Societal Sustainability: Risks, Challenges, and Underpinnings
• Ethical Implications of AmI and the IoT: Risks to Privacy, Security, and Trust, and Prospective Technological Safeguards
• Democratizing AmI and the IoT: The Power and Influence of Social Innovation and Participative and Humanistic Design.           .