Many of the ways in which we discuss, imagine and envision the internet rely on inaccurate
and unhelpful spatial metaphors. This paper focuses on the usage of the …

Cyberspace is the digital world created based on traditional physical, social, and thinking
spaces (PST) but in turn makes a great difference on PST. The cyberization and the …

The way in which we describe processes of automation, the digital society and the
technology companies that deliver many of its services carry implicit and sometimes …

The prevalence of social media and mobile computing has led to intensive user
engagement in the emergent Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking (CPST) space. However, the …

Personal identity is, unquestionably, one of the most complex, multifarious and polysemic
concepts permeating the intellectual history of mankind. Such primordial concept has been …

Companies have been analyzing data from their own customer interactions on a smaller
scale for many years. But only recently, they understood the potential treasure trove of non …

L'enjeu de cette thèse de philosophie des sciences était de répondre à un problème
pratique, qui s' est présenté à moi alors que je travaillais comme analyste sur des données …

European society is going through a process of metamorphosis as digital natives are
becoming of age. This new generation of individuals, who have grown up immersed in …

Identity and privacy are often intertwined and, as a result, the significance of the distinction
between the two concepts has been overlooked by law. This paper sheds some light upon …

Manipulating and processing masses of digital data is never a purely technical activity. It
requires an interpretative and exploratory outlook-already well known in the social sciences …