“…There is a process for FIPS-140 (Federal Information Processing Standard) certification for cryptographic products sold to the US government. And there are parallel certifications in other countries, resulting in a non-trivial and complex process. …”

“…Every day we are bombarded by television ads, public service announcements, and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks. But many of these messages are incomplete, misleading, or exaggerated, leaving the average person misinformed and confused. …”

“…New forms of communication bring with them both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connections and the ability to forge global communities, while on the other prompting anxieties about isolation and over-stimulation. …”

“…Listeners will learn about: how to understand the Metaverse and cut through the many myths and misconceptions around it; a behind-the-scenes account of launching Second Life, the first metaverse platform to achieve mainstream awareness, and what its many controversies teach us; where current platforms Meta, Roblox, Fortnite, VRChat, and Lamina1, Neal Stephenson's own metaverse startup, fit in the ecosystem; and how to address the many dangers inherent in the Metaverse before it becomes central to the Internet. …”

“…In Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times, Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of Wang's impact on cultural memory of WWII in China. …”

“…"The internet was created to bring us together. But somewhere along the way, that vision was lost. …”

“…Light allows us not only to see the works of art, but also to take care of them and preserve them for future generations, through diagnosis of the degradation and deterioration phenomena, conservation treatments, and monitoring based on light-material interaction processes. …”

“…In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) amid our inheritance of modern humanism and its uses of time, Almost Futures asks us to recognize new spectrums of feeling: the poetic, in the grief of protesters dispossessed by land speculation; the allegorical, in assembly line workers' laughter and sorrow; the iterant and intimate, in the visual witnessing of revolutionary and state killing; the haunting, in refugee writing on the death of their nation; and the irreconcilable, in refugees' inhabitation of history"--…”

“…Rošker offers the first comprehensive overview and exegesis of the work of Li Zehou, who is one of the most significant and influential Chinese philosophers of our time. Rošker shows us how Li's complex system of thought seeks to revive various Chinese traditions, and at the same time attempts to harmonize or reconcile this cultural heritage with the demands of the dominant economic, political, and axiological structures of our globalized world. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : deceiving from the top : state-sponsored disinformation as a contemporary global phenomenon / Martin Echeverría and Sara García Santamaría -- Theoretical understanding of state-sponsored disinformation / Petros Iosifidis -- Rethinking disinformation for the global South : towards a particular research agenda / Grisel Salazar Rebolledo -- Statistics and state-sponsored disinformation : uderstanding the propaganda war on numbers / Ahmed Farouk-Radwan and Jairo Lugo-Ocando -- Populist disinformation : mapping the discursive connections between online populism and disinformation in the US / Michael Hameleers -- From tragedy to oblivion : state-sponsored disinformation in the aftermath of the Sewol ferry disaster / Hyo-Jeong Lee -- Spanish far-right and environmental disinformation : VOX's obstructionist discourse on the climate crisis on Twitter / David Vicente Torrico and María Díez-Garrido -- Combatting and defeating Chinese propaganda and disinformation : a case study of Taiwan's 2020 elections / Aaron Huang -- State-sponsored disinformation in Brazil : distrust and delegitimization of the electoral system through the use of political authority Facebook accounts / Raquel Recuero, Liziane Soares Guazina and Bruno Araújo -- Citizen's participation on social media against state-sponsored disinformation during the pandemic in Argentina / Adriana Amado -- State-sponsored disinformation in Greece : from the Novartis scandal to the wiretapping of politicians, journalists and citizens / Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock and Alexandros S. …”