Introduction: why the gender divide in computer games is an important and timely issue -- The computer game industry, market, and culture -- Games and society: can games make a better world? -- Play preferences and the gendering of gaming -- Representation, image, and identity -- Game workers...

In the fields of engineering, science and information technology, there remains an underrepresentation of female leadership in entry level, intermediate, upper level, and senior level management positions, creating an insufficient number of role models to encourage other women to join these...

Gender economics: an introduction to contemporary gender economics / Susanne Moore -- A note on the history of gender economics and feminist economics: not the same story / Giandomenica Becchio -- Impact of microfinance on female empowerment: a review of the empirical literature / Sefa Kwami...

"This book provides a collection of high-quality empirical studies and personal experiences of women working in male-dominated fields with a particular focus on the media and gaming industries, providing insight on best methods for attracting and retaining women in these fields"--Provided by...

"This book is a comprehensive collection of research on the emergence of information technology and its effect on society, focusing on the advancements made throughout social changes and the application of information systems"--Provided by publisher.

"This book discusses the Semantic Web, as an extension of the current World Wide Web in which information is given well-defined, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation"--Provided by publisher.

This book considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they are essential in changing organizations. It not only considers transformations of structured models, rather, the transformation of instances (i.e. the actual contents of those structures)...

With the increasing popularity of the Internet, electronic commerce, and enterprise applications, this book has been developed to focus on Unified Modeling Language (UML), Unified Process (UP) and other information modeling methods and methodologies, and involves conceptual, theoretical,...

This book provides a source of high-quality, practical case studies of the planning, implementation and use of mobile and wireless data solutions in modern business. The selected case studies are both good examples of wireless and mobile solutions and classical cases of multiple areas of common...

This book includes the most encompassing research of the concepts and realities involved in the field of virtual communities and technologies. A ground-breaking, multi-volume compendium of 167 chapters from a global pool of more than 350 experts, it presents an in-depth analysis of the...