In this paper, we engage in a philosophical investigation of how blockchain technologies
such as cryptocurrencies can mediate our social world. Emerging blockchain-based …

From their shadowy origins in Bitcoin to their use by multinational corporations,
cryptocurrencies and blockchains are remaking the rules of digital media and society …

Both designers and users of social robots tend to anthropomorphize robots. Focusing on the
question how to conceptualize the relation between robots and humans, this paper first …

This is the first monograph to develop a hermeneutic approach to the digital—as both a
technological milieu and a cultural phenomenon. While philosophical in its orientation, the …

This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between
language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with …

Project Maven is an AI-induced information technology for military applications initiated by
the United States Department of Defence (DoD) in 2017 and originally signed on to a civilian …

Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart devices, robots, and
artificial intelligence and their impact on the lives of people and on society, it is important …

An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links
nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century …

Contemporary ICTs such as speaking machines and computer games tend to create
illusions. Is this ethically problematic? Is it deception? And what kind of “reality” do we …

Drawing upon qualitative data gathered during a four-year ethnographic study of homicide
investigation in Britain, this paper explores how detectives, scientists, and other experts use …