Technology, data and society
Reflecting on UN Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industries, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities and Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, our list looks at the potential for innovation and creative solutions to global social problems, whilst critically engaging with the risks, such as worsened social inequality and damage to human rights.
Subjects covered include the development of sustainable technology to help combat climate change, the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse data more efficiently, the way social media creates a space for people to organise international social activism and the need to balance our digital lives and retain data sovereignty, especially for the most vulnerable in society.
Bristol University Press and Policy Press are signed up to the UN SDG Publishers Compact. In Technology, data and innovation, we aim to address the following goals:
Human Perception and Digital Information Technologies
Animation, the Body, and Affect
This ground-breaking collection explores the ways in which digital information technologies form and influence human perception and experience. Defying technological determinism, it takes on board discursive perspectives from humanities, bringing digital media, affect and body studies into conversation with one another.
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Access to Justice, Digitalization and Vulnerability
Exploring Trust in Justice
Written by key names in the field, this book explores the impact of digitization and COVID-19 on justice in housing and special needs education. It analyses access to justice, offers recommendations for improvement and provides valuable insights into administrative justice from user perspectives.
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Epigenetics and Responsibility
Ethical Perspectives
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This thought-provoking collection redefines the boundaries of moral responsibility. It shows how epigenetics reveals connections between our genetic make-up and our environment. The essays suggest a shift in focus from individual to collective responsibility.
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The Internet Left
Ideology in the Age of Social Media
This book defines what political social media is and then takes a morphological approach to investigate political ideologies and reveal the ways in which interconnected concepts are arranged. It concludes by coining the term ‘proto-ideologies’ to approach the construction of concepts that generate ideologies in the making.
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Data Power in Action
Urban Data Politics in Times of Crisis
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Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how data have become a generative force in shaping what cities are, how they are governed and inhabited, especially during times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Smart Borders, Digital Identity and Big Data
How Surveillance Technologies Are Used Against Migrants
In recent years, UN agencies, global tech corporations, states and humanitarian NGOs have invested in surveillance technologies to support migrant communities and streamline their management.
This book reveals the way in which they grant extensive powers to states and big tech corporations to control communities.
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Observing Justice
Digital Transparency, Openness and Accountability in Criminal Courts
This book examines how major but often under-scrutinised legal, social, and technological developments have affected the transparency and accountability of the criminal justice process. The book proposes a framework for open justice which prioritises public legal education and justice system accountability.
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Hate Crime in Football
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Varieties of Precarity
Melting Labour and the Failure to Protect Workers in the Korean Welfare State
Based on in-depth interviews with over 80 precarious workers in Korea, this book introduces the concept of ‘melting labour’ and provides a real depiction of how workers lose control over their lives and experience precariousness in labour markets.
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Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies
Science and Technology Studies and Health Praxis
Drawing from a range of disciplines and case studies, this volume examines the latest health and genetic technologies, explores the representation, communication, and internalization of health knowledge and reveals the economic and cultural inequalities that result from these technologies.
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Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis
Making Bushfire Babies
Exploring the impact of climate change and the pandemic on people’s decisions to form families and their experience of having children, this book makes a valuable contribution to debates on contemporary planetary crises.
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Games in the Platform Economy
Steam's Tangled Markets
This book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming with a unique economic sociology perspective.
Paying particular attention to Valve’s ‘Steam’ platform, the book examines the architecture of this online videogame marketplace and the way it enables new markets and economic transactions.
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Evidence & Policy
eHealth technologies and the know-do gap: exploring the role of knowledge mobilisation
Sharing confidential health data for research purposes in the UK: where are ‘publics’ in the public interest? [Open Access]
International Journal of Care and Caring
Responses to vulnerability: care ethics and the technologisation of eldercare
Critical and Radical Social Work
Technicist education: paving the way for the rise of the social work robots?