Humanising Technology presents a compelling collection of 50 opinion editorials that delve into the multifaceted social impacts of technology. Drawing from over two decades of research and public engagement, the author offers nuanced insights into how technology intersects with human values and societal norms.Organised into five thematic sections — AI Ethics; Design and Big Data; Digital Parenting and Young People, Education and Upskilling; and Social Inclusion — each segment begin...

Whether members of the family are headed to school or work, smartphones accompany family members throughout the day. The growing sophistication of mobile communication has unleashed a proliferation of apps, channels, and platforms that link parents to their children and the key institutions in their lives. While parents may feel empowered by their ability to provide their children assistance with a click on their smartphone, they may also feel pressured and overwhelmed by this need to alwa...

Inequality in health reflects the deeper social and economic structures shaping everyday life.This edited volume investigates the complex and uneven landscape of health disparities in contemporary Korean society, demonstrating how rapid economic and social transformations have produced unequal health outcomes across diverse populations. The collection highlights how factors such as employment conditions, social capital, and access to healthcare contribute to differe...

An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships between food, culture, and society.Communicating Food in Korea features contributors from a variety of disciplines, including economics, political science, communication studies, nutrition research, tourism research, and more. Each chapter presents a unique interpretation of food's economic, political, and sociocultural relevance. Situated in Korea's shifting historical contexts, contributors explore th...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.As a world leader in technology, China’s adoption of trend-setting innovations has led to the encroachment of digital technologies into the home. Digital Parenting Burdens in China is the first English language book to explore the impact of digitalisation on family life in China, including the phenomenon of ‘punch-in culture’ and its implications for family wellbeing. In an ...

An instant New York Times bestseller!From belovedbestselling author Lisa See, the story of three Chinese women whose unexpected friendship helps them survive and, despite the odds, thrive, in the turmoil of post–Civil War Los Angeles.In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entrancing and innocent. These characteristics sho...

What beverages do “Tak Giu” and “Diao Yu” refer to? Who were the Samsui Women? Why do Chinese Singaporean families gather to toss yusheng every Lunar New Year? How and why did their ancestors migrate to Singapore in the first place?Discover all that and more through ten fun and educational storybooks, written and illustrated by Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Chinese Studies students with guidance from award-winning children’s book illustrator Lee Kow Fong! Complete with activity guides and...

The Westphalian model of international relations has given us a zero-sum game of winners and losers that has proven to be ineffective in addressing the pressing issues of our times. Philosopher Zhao Tingyang has argued that by conceptualizing international relations from the planetary perspective of tianxia, we can develop a sense of “worldness” that at once acknowledges the plurality of moral ideals defining of the world’s cultures and seeks practical ways to formulate a shared m...

Mobile communication has dramatically changed over the past decade with the diffusion of smartphones. Unlike the basic 2G mobile phones, which "merely" facilitated communication between individuals on the move, smartphones allow individuals to communicate, to entertain and inform themselves, to transact, to navigate, to take photos, and countless other things. Mobile communication has thus transformed society by allowing new forms of coordination, communication, consumption, social interac...

A story of young men and women condemned to do the tasks of others with no will of their own trying to find a niche in a world where they are regulated chattel property. And even those who are not chattel property are burdened with the job of proving themselves worthy of civil respect and human treatment. Yet their ingenuity find ways where they can find a balance of life that allows them to become full human beings. The obstacles they overcome are intentional to keep them from becoming fu...

Following her first book of questions, Everything Under the Sun, award-winning podcast host Molly Oldfield once again delights readers with this new, beautifully illustrated book answering 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world.How were rollerskates invented?How do boats float?Do snails go upside down?Where is the happiest place in the world?Find out the answers to these curious questions...

When Evie Mei discovers that her recently passed mother was the head of a guild of magical weavers, she enters the Chinese netherworld to try and bring her back in this middle-grade debut.Twelve-year-old Evie Mei Huang never did like helping in her mom’s tailor shop. She hated dyeing and spooling the thread and how the measuring tape gets all twisted up. Most of all, now that her mother has died, she hates that she isn’t here anymore.When the universe sends...