Technology, data and society

Apple and Google shape the digital world—but who holds them accountable? This book explores how their control over app ecosystems creates systemic risks and what the EU’s Digital Services Act means for the future of competition, privacy and regulation.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we make the digital world safer and more accountable? This book delivers a cutting-edge framework for digital responsibility, offering case studies and insights for policy makers, practitioners and academics.

Patricia Shamai traces the history of nuclear weapons from their first use in 1945 through the Cold War to the ominous nuclear landscape today. She shows how they have been a deterrent by raising the stakes of war and thereby reducing the chances of conflict, but this depends on the world’s reaction and ongoing vigilance.

Today, new technologies are creating an even newer version of the profession—Lawyer 3.0—that could be more affordable and effective than the one that currently exists. This work not only describes this phenomenon but shows how lawyers cannot just survive but thrive in this new reality.

This book examines how biodata shapes human lives, science, and global justice. Drawing on anthropology and science and technology studies, the book redefines biodata as both context and connection across complex systems and histories.

UberTherapy is the essential guide to the rise of digital therapy for anyone working in, researching or using mental health services. Arguing for the irreplaceable value of human therapists, this book offers a roadmap to preserve real therapy in an increasingly digital world.

This provocative book exposes the colonial roots of tech-driven climate policies and highlights global resistance to resource extraction through Ireland’s land-based struggles.

This compelling book considers the effects of the digital era on English defamation law. Exploring the challenges posed by affordable technology, viral sharing and technological advancements such as AI, the book highlights the complexities claimants face in the current environment.

With the increasing influence of digital technologies on society, this timely book examines the ways modern technologies can adversely influence human perception and behaviour.

This book examines how new digital technologies are reshaping and expanding the production and contestation of collective memory. It introduces innovative perspectives on the complex intersections and unexpected trends of memory formation and digitisation in contemporary China.

How is AI reshaping democracy? From data commodification to algorithmic control, this book exposes the hidden costs of AI on political identities—and shows how to resist being ‘factory farmed’ in the digital age.

Onlife criminology is the study of crime and social harm produced by the blurring lines between digital engagement and our everyday lives. This thought-provoking book analyses the threats of surveillance, indoctrination and abuse of personal data that can potentially affect us all.