This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and each chapter tackles a theme, using case studies from Australia and Europe. Energy innovation is currently occurring at a rapid pace, in response to a host of problems …
This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication systems that use algorithms based on probabilistic models and techniques, including web searches, digital links, speech recognition, GPS, route planning, recommendation systems, c…
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that inf…
This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automa…
Sebagai negara kepulauan, tak ayal jika laut dan pesisir menjadi kekuatan utama Indonesia, yang mengandung sumber daya berlimpah. Namun, orang sering melupakan potensi perairan darat kita, yang sejatinya tak kalah penting dibandingkan lautan. Di Pulau Jawa, danau adalah salah satu sumber primer mata pencaharian masyarakat, selain juga sebagai penyedia sumber daya alam dan penghasil energi. Keru…
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online? This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in digital ethics about online manipulation. The contributions explore the ramifications of our in…
Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles. What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How …
Technological change is at the core of all major disruptions in human history, and revolutions, wars, and general development are regularly connected to some sort of technological change. However, not all development is beneficial. While technology has fueled great innovations and rapid development, the notion of sustainable development has gained prominence as we now experience serious social,…
Buku ini adalah edisi revisi dari seri ketiga Mencari Indonesia yang sebelumnya telah diterbitkan pada 2019. Edisi revisi ini diterbitkan melalui program akuisisi Penerbit BRIN agar menjangkau khalayak pembaca yang lebih luas. Sebagaimana tecermin dalam judulnya, seri ketiga ini berisi esai-esai yang ditulis pada masa pandemi Covid-19, yang tidak hanya merupakan isu kesehatan belaka, tetapi jug…