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“alexander pretschner”

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  • Digital Transformation and Ethics

    by Alexander Bogner, Christopher Frauenberger, Markus Frischhut, Sepp Hochreiter, Niina Huber, Anna Jobin, Severin Kacianka, Anita Klingel, Tobias D. Krafft, Sabine Theresia Köszegi, Julian Nida-Rümelin, Alexander Pretschner, Peter Reichl, Maria Riegler, Markus Scholz, Anne Siegetsleitner, Sarah Spiekermann, Elisabeth Stampfl-Blaha, Charlotte Stix, Stefan Strauß, Harald Welzer, Hannes Werthner, Katharina A. Zweig, Michael Mayrhofer, Gerold Rachbauer ...
    Everything is digital – whether it concerns the private sphere, work or public life. The technological progress involves both enormous chances and great risks. What are the social challenges we face? Which role does ethics play? Will the digital revolution necessarily serve the common good?Experts from various fields, among them computer science, economy, sociology and philosophy, address these ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Big Mind

    How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Digital Media and Society

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Athique ...
    The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • The Entrepreneurial Self

    Fabricating a New Type of Subject

    by Ulrich Bröckling ...
    "This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to become entrepreneurs of our selves, to maximise and optimise our capacities in ways that align personal identity and political ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Strategic Communication, Social Media and Democracy

    The challenge of the digital naturals

    Edited by W. Timothy Coombs, Jesper Falkheimer, Mats Heide, Philip Young ...
    Series series Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research
    Today almost everyone in the developed world spends time online and anyone involved in strategic communication must think digitally. The magnitude of change may be up for debate but the trend is unstoppable, dramatically reconfiguring business models, organisational structures and even the practice of democracy.Strategic Communication, Social Media and Democracy provides a wholly new framework for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age

    Edited by Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, Tamar Tembeck ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Relational Economy

    Geographies of Knowing and Learning

    by Harald Bathelt, Johannes Glückler ...
    How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global exchange relations intertwined and co-constituted? What are the impacts of global changes in technology, demand, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Internet and Society

    Social Theory in the Information Age

    by Christian Fuchs ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, he demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political, and cultural systems of contemporary society have been transformed by new ICTs. Fuchs highlights how new ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social Media Abyss

    Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation

    by Geert Lovink ...
    Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to technologies of capture and cultures of fear. Despite the incursion into privacy by companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon, ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Decoding the Social World

    Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication

    by Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon ...
    Series series Information Policy
    How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences.Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In Decoding the Social World, Sandra González-Bailón explains how data science and digital traces ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 3TH1CS

    A reinvention of ethics in the digital age?

    Edited by Philipp Otto, Eike Gräf ...
    Should we ban war robots or are they something we might want? What can computer games tell us about our morals? Is it OK to love a robot? What is ethical design in the digital world? How do we need to regulate the algorithms that impact our lives? The digital transition puts our ideas about morality to the test, presenting us with new questions in all areas of life: politics, economy, social life, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD