| Social Computing and the Law: Uses and Abuses in Exceptional Circumstances Contributor(s): Ahmad, Khurshid (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108428657 ISBN-13: 9781108428651 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Communications |
| Dewey: 343.099 |
| LCCN: 2018022356 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 7.39" W x 9.28" (0.81 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This innovative book sets itself at the crossroads of several rapidly developing areas of research in legal and global studies related to social computing, specifically in the context of how public emergency responders appropriate content on social media platforms for emergency and disaster management. The book - a collaboration between computer scientists, ethicists, legal scholars and practitioners - should be read by anyone concerned with the ongoing debate over the corporatization and commodification of user-generated content on social media and the extent to which this content can be legally and ethically harnessed for emergency and disaster management. The collaboration was made possible by EU's FP 7 Project Slandail (# 607691, 2014-17). |
Contributor Bio(s): Ahmad, Khurshid: - Khurshid Ahmad is Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. He specializes in artificial intelligence with research interests in information extraction from images and texts, fuzzy logic, sentiment analysis, neural networks, and terminology and ontology. Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the University of Surrey (1975). He is an elected Fellow of the British Computer Society and of Trinity College, as well as a Chartered Engineer. He has taught at the Universities of Karachi and Surrey and has been a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School. Ahmad has published over 250 research papers. His books include Computers, Language Learning and Language Teaching (Cambridge, 1985), Translator's Workbench: Tools and Terminology for Translation and Text Processing (1995), and Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, and Terminology (2011). |