Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Volume 14, Number 4

ebook The Impact of Smart Technology on Users And Society · Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

By Simon Rogerson

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In the 21st Century, Smart Technologies are introduced to various stakeholders in Society, namely users, businesses and education, to improve performance, productivity, and to increase satisfaction. Smart Technology has changed stakeholders understanding and perspective towards performing business, collaboration cooperation, communication and connection. Stakeholders are using smart technology for information access, education, entertainment, marketing, political, online shopping, and health information. Adopting these smart technologies in such sectors poses a huge challenge in training and implementation. Nonetheless, using such technologies will improve several areas performance and productivity; reduce costs, improve sustainability, increase users' satisfaction, retention, and loyalty in the long run. However, new threats will be introduced for example, security, privacy, legal conflicts and risky reputation, if it is used inappropriately. This ebook aims to investigate and assess some of the effects and influences of smart technologies on users and society in general.This issue of Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society entitled The Impact of Smart Technology on Users and Society comprises five papers that provide cutting edge information and knowledge insights of technology, privacy, security and reputation issues. The guest editors selected these papers from the Internet Technologies and Society 2015 Conference (ITS 2015), and International Conference on Educational Technologies 2015 (ICEduTech 2015), which were both held in Brazil as well as an open call. The conference papers have been extended significantly and all papers have been peer-reviewed further to achieve a final high publication standard.

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Volume 14, Number 4