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Digitaler Wandel in der SPD: Kommunikation, Beteiligung und Organisation in der Parteireform 2017-2019 (Studien der NRW School of Governance)
by Dennis MichelsNach der Bundestagswahl 2017 entflammte die Diskussion über das erneut schwache Abschneiden der SPD. Unbeirrt von Krisen-Erzählungen wagte die Partei die Flucht nach vorn: Mit dem zweijährigen Reformprojekt #SPDerneuern sollten fortan digitale Instrumente und Strukturen die Sozialdemokratie anschlussfähiger, offener und moderner machen. Jung, weiblich und digital wolle man werden. Mit Generalsekretär Lars Klingbeil an der Spitze ernannte sich die SPD zur digitalen Mitmachpartei: Vernetzte Parteiarbeit sei jetzt zeitgemäß über Debattenportal, Online-Umfragen und einen Telegram-Kanal möglich. Wie erklärt sich, dass die SPD lange vor der Corona-Pandemie massiv auf digitale Kommunikation und Beteiligung setzte? Welche Ziele verfolgte die neue Parteiführung und an welchen Stellen zeigte die Partei Widerstand im Reformprozess? Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht die Studie auf die Spur und gibt bislang unbekannte Einblicke in die innerparteiliche Organisation, in Führungsstrategien und die Parteikultur. Auf Basis einer Vielzahl von Experteninterviews, Parteidokumenten und Hintergrundgesprächen wurde dieser bislang nur schwer einsehbare Bereich hinter den Kulissen der SPD ausgeleuchtet. In der Frühphase des vernetzten Zeitalters zeigt sich so eindrucksvoll das Wechselspiel zwischen Politik und voranschreitender digitaler Transformation.
Digitalisation and Human Security: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Cybersecurity in the European High North (New Security Challenges)
by Kamrul Hossain Mirva Salminen Gerald ZojerThis book constructs a multidisciplinary approach to human security questions related to digitalisation in the European High North i.e. the northernmost areas of Scandinavia, Finland and North-Western Russia. It challenges the mainstream conceptualisation of cybersecurity and reconstructs it with the human being as the referent object of security.
Digitalisation and Organisation Design: Knowledge Management in the Asian Digital Economy (Routledge Advances in Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management)
by Mohammad Nabil AlmunawarDigitalisation and Organization Design aims to address key topics related to organisation design and knowledge management in the digital economy with organisational context, particularly in Asia. Asian nations are moving fast toward the digital economy. Doing business in the digital economy is different from the old way, the role of organisation design and knowledge management is crucial to support innovative and creative ideas for tapping the huge market opportunities in which people are ready for digitalisation. Chapters in the book cover important topics related to organisation design and knowledge management for organisations, especially business organisations in Asia to prepare and cultivate necessary means for advancing in the digital economy. This book offers readers a unique value, bringing new perspectives to understanding emerging business opportunities and challenges in Asia. It will present a valuable collection of chapters with empirical studies from leading researchers on the related topic within the main theme (Asian economies, digitalisation, knowledge management, organisational design) The collection of chapters will be conceptually and practically beneficial for academics, students and policy makers. interested in the latest developments in organisation design and knowledge management in the digital economy in Asia. This book can be used as a main or supplementary resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in business and related areas.
Digitalisierte Lebenswelten: Bildungstheoretische Reflexionen (Kindheit – Bildung – Erziehung. Philosophische Perspektiven)
by Marc Fabian Buck Miguel Zulaica y MugicaDigitale Technologien sind nicht mehr Teil utopischer oder dystopischer Beschreibungen, sondern selbstverständlicher Teil der heutigen Lebenswelt. Diese bildet den Boden für Sozialisations-, Bildungs- und Erziehungsprozesse. Im Zentrum des Bandes steht diese postdigitale Alltäglichkeit, die sich begleitet von Sachzwängen, Ernüchterungen, Normalisierungen und Pragmatik etabliert hat und hier bildungstheoretisch reflektiert wird. Untersucht werden lebensweltliche Differenzerfahrungen, die sich aus der konkreten Praxis und ihren Brüchen ergeben, hinsichtlich bedeutsamer Fragen nach Formen und Orten pädagogischen Handelns, nach Erfahrbarkeit von Anderen und Anderem, nach Verantwortung, Sozialität, Subjektivität und Unbestimmtheit. Der Band zielt auf eine Aktualisierung bildungstheoretischen Denkens, das sich anschlussfähig erweist an lebensweltliche Bezüge in einer sich rasch verändernden Welt.
Digitalisierung & Nachhaltigkeit: Eine unternehmerische Perspektive
by Michael JacobDie Themen Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit dominieren die Zukunft von Unternehmen und unserer Gesellschaft in den nächsten Jahrzehnten. Wenn Unternehmen die Digitalisierung aktiv umsetzen, müssen sie folglich ökonomische, ökologische und soziale Aspekte im Sinne der Nachhaltigkeit berücksichtigen. Genau hier setzt Michael Jacob an: Der Autor geht im ersten Teil des Buches auf die Grundlagen der Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit anhand der wichtigsten Modelle ein. Im zweiten Teil wird der Fokus auf die Frage gelegt, wie Unternehmen den Digitalisierungsprozess nachhaltig gestalten können. Ein kurzes Fazit rundet die beiden Hauptteile ab.Damit ist das Buch ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel, um Zielkonflikte zwischen den Bereichen Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit zunächst zu erkennen und dann entsprechend entscheiden zu können. Somit können Unternehmen ihrer gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung (Corporate Social Responsibility) nachkommen. Ein Buch für alle, die eine kompakte Einführung in die beiden großen Themen unserer Zeit suchen.
Digitalisierung als Transformation?: Perspektiven aus Ethik, Philosophie und Theologie (Digitalitätsforschung / Digitality Research)
by Klaus Viertbauer Tobias Holischka Christian PreidelDigitalisierung ist zum Inbegriff geworden für den Übergang in eine neue Zeit mit neuen Möglichkeiten und Fragestellungen. Doch wofür steht ‚Digitalisierung‘ eigentlich jenseits der Computertechnologie und den damit verbundenen technischen Verfahren? Die Digitalisierung scheint einen Prozess mit weitreichenden Folgen für unsere Lebenswelt, für unser Denken, Handeln und Interagieren in Gang zu setzen. Neben diesen transformativen Bewegungen lassen sich dabei auch reduktive Tendenzen beobachten, wenn etwa soziale Interaktion zu technischer Kommunikation wird oder wenn die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Maschine immer mehr verschwimmen. Der Band geht diesen Fragen nach und identifiziert Digitalisierung als einen wesentlichen Grund für den strukturellen Wandel der Gesellschaft. Dabei werden die philosophischen, ethischen und theologischen Dimensionen erörtert und darauf befragt, wo sich reduktive und/oder transformative Prozesse diagnostizieren und an ausgewählten Beispielen festmachen lassen.
Digitalisierung auf mittelständisch
by Raimund SchlotmannRaimund Schlotmann beschreibt in seinem Buch, wie man als technisches mittelständisches Unternehmen die neuen Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung entzaubert und konkret anpackt. Das Buch nimmt dem Thema das Bedrohliche, Unkonkrete und macht anhand der verständlichen Methode "Digitales Wirkungsmanagement“ quasi als Bedienungsanleitung klar, was genau zu tun ist und wie der Mittelstand diese Veränderungen aktiv gestalten und als Chance für sich nutzen kann.„Digitalisierung auf mittelständisch“ rüttelt wach und stellt dar, wie sich durch die Verschiebung der Produktdifferenzierung von Hardware/Mechanik zu Software die Regeln ändern und sich Einfallstore für neue Wettbewerber öffnen. Das Buch erklärt mit welcher Denk- und Herangehensweise man sich der neuen Welt der Digitalisierung nähern kann.Agieren statt Reagieren, dazu soll das Buch anregen und richtet sich mit dieser Botschaft an alle, die im mittelständischen technischen Umfeld den Chancen, aber auch der Herausforderung durch Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0 gegenüberstehen.
Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt im Mittelstand 1: Ergebnisse und Best Practice des BMBF-Forschungsschwerpunkts "Zukunft der Arbeit: Mittelstand – innovativ und sozial"
by Roger Häußling Verena Nitsch Thomas Gries Christopher Brandl Jacqueline Lemm Bernhard SchmenkDieses Buch zeigt, wie das Innovationspotenzial kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen im digitalen Wandel der Arbeitswelt durch Maßnahmen der Arbeitsgestaltung und -organisation gestärkt werden kann. Die Beiträge der Autor*innen aus Industrie und Forschung umfassen sowohl Ergebnisse als auch Best-Practice-Beiträge der Verbundprojekte des BMBF-Forschungsschwerpunkts "Zukunft der Arbeit: Mittelstand – innovativ und sozial".In den Themenbereichen • Unterstützung strategischer Entscheidungsprozesse zur Digitalisierung von Unternehmen • Weiterbildungs- und Qualifizierungsangebote für und durch Digitalisierung• Assistenzsysteme zur Unterstützung in der digitalisierten Arbeitswelt und der digitalen Gestaltung von Arbeit• Gestaltung inner- und überbetrieblicher Kollaboration von Menschen durch virtuelle Umgebungenbeschreiben die vorgestellten Beiträge einerseits ein großes Spektrum technischer, organisatorischer und personeller Entwicklungen und andererseits auch deren Umsetzung in betrieblichen Anwendungsfällen im Sinne von Best Practice.Kapitel 1 und 5 werden auf link.springer.com unter der Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz veröffentlicht.
Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten: Zur Erfassbarkeit einer systemischen Transformation
by Sabine Pfeiffer Martin Krzywdzinski Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer Michael Henke Manuel Nicklich Martina HeßlerDiese Open Access Publikation bündelt Ergebnisse aus der ersten Förderphase des interdisziplinären DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms 2267 „Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten“. Digitalisierung verändert Arbeit mit vielfältigen Konsequenzen für Arbeit(smarkt) und Qualifizierung. Wie dramatisch und grundsätzlich diese Veränderungen sind, wird seit Jahren kontrovers diskutiert und anwendungsbezogen erforscht. Das Schwerpunktprogramm nimmt die Veränderung der Arbeitsgesellschaft als Ganzes in den Blick – Geschichts-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften analysieren die vielschichtigen und widersprüchlichen Dynamiken als eine systemische Transformation. Leitend ist dabei die These von drei Bewegungsdynamiken: die Durchdringung (z.B. von digitalen Arbeitsprozessen), die Verfügbarmachung (z.B. von Daten über einzelne Arbeitshandlungen) und die Verselbständigung (z.B. von datengetriebenen Wertschöpfungsketten). Methodische Reflexionen zu Erfassbarkeit der Transformation runden den Band ab.
Digitalisierung und die Rolle von Weiterbildung: Teilnahme und Erträge von Beschäftigten mit hohem Automatisierungsrisiko
by Birgit Zeyer-GliozzoZahlreiche Studien zu den Folgen der Digitalisierung für Arbeitsmärkte weisen auf einen damit einhergehenden Tätigkeitswandel hin, der sich in einem Rückgang substituierbarer Routinetätigkeiten und einer Zunahme analytischer und interaktiver Nicht-Routinetätigkeiten äußert. Fortschritte u.a. in künstlicher Intelligenz erweitern die Automatisierungsmöglichkeiten. Um mit diesen Veränderungen Schritt halten zu können, wird Weiterbildung große Bedeutung beigemessen. Besonders wichtig erscheint dies für Beschäftigte mit vielen automatisierbaren Tätigkeiten. In diesem Buch wird untersucht, inwieweit diese Personen an Weiterbildung teilnehmen und ob die Bildungsmaßnahmen einen entsprechenden Nutzen bringen. Analysen auf Basis des Nationalen Bildungspanels zeigen, dass Beschäftigte mit hohem Automatisierungsrisiko eine tendenziell geringere Weiterbildungswahrscheinlichkeit aufweisen, während Weiterbildungserträge durchaus existieren. Je nach Weiterbildungs- bzw. Ertragsform und unter Berücksichtigung der Heterogenität der Beschäftigten ergeben sich z.T. deutliche Unterschiede, die die Relevanz einer differenzierten Betrachtung, auch für die Ableitung politischer Implikationen, verdeutlichen.
Digitalization and Learning as a Worlding Practice: Why Dialogue Matters (ISSN)
by Ernst SchraubeIn the face of a world in crisis, Digitalization and Learning as a Worlding Practice: Why Dialogue Matters examines the significance of digital technologies in human learning.The book explores how learning is not just an internalization of knowledge but a problem- oriented activity of engaging with the world, a process of both meaning making and world making. It raises a pivotal question: how can digital technologies help to expand and enrich learning as a collaborative worlding practice? It discusses the importance of digital artifacts in shaping students’ learning experiences, discerning how they nourish meaningful engagement and where they pose a hindrance. The book also investigates the role of digitalization in transforming everyday life and learning activity of students, and how learners, teachers, and educators can approach these transformations critically and constructively. Based on an embodied, subject- and world- centered concept of learning, the book offers its readers a sophisticated understanding of the inner connection between digitalization and learning.This book will appeal to students and scholars in Psychology, Education, and Science and Technology Studies, as well as to anyone concerned with the implications of digital technology for the processes of human learning.
Digitalization in Industry: Between Domination and Emancipation
by Uli Meyer Simon Schaupp David SeibtThis book traces how the current wave of industrial digitalization relates to processes of domination and emancipation. It aims to counter techno-deterministic narratives that would connect a perceived new ‘industrial revolution’ with clear-cut societal consequences. In order to do this, the volume intervenes into three ongoing discussions which pertain to emancipation and domination in the workplace, promises of emancipation through digital fabrication, and the idea of emancipating, configuring, and infrastructuring the users of industrial products. Within this framework it addresses topics including democratic participation, management thinking, gamification, the maker movement, reshoring, digital platforms, and the automation of healthcare.
Digitalization in the Luxury Fashion Industry: Strategic Branding for Millennial Consumers (Palgrave Advances in Luxury)
by Anna CabigiosuThe luxury fashion industry is one of the best performing and fastest growing industries in today’s business landscape, and is set to continue expanding over the next years. Exploring the effects of digitalization, this book aims to increase our understanding of the key drivers of internal growth and competitiveness in luxury fashion firms. With a focus on the development of new brand strategies brought about by digitalization, the author outlines the need for business models to be redesigned in order to make use of social media and satisfy Millennial consumers. Offering case studies on leading luxury fashion brands, this timely book evaluates new digital technologies and strategies including omnichannel marketing, 3D printing and smart textiles. A must-read for those researching digital marketing and branding, as well as luxury or fashion management, this book provides a much-needed and up-to-date analysis of a successful and digitally aware industry.
Digitalization: Contexts, Roles, and Outcomes
by Sergey V. SamoilenkoConceptually, as well as practically, digitalization is similar to the implementation of a modern computation model – the model may be a centralized setup using a mainframe or it may be extended to an N-tier architecture. Regardless of the specifics of the implementation, however, the conceptual model of data processing remains the same. Digitalization is nothing but a system relying on digital technologies to create, conduct and, potentially, expand a business activity of some sort. Digitalization can be used to create an e-commerce model for a small business or to create a global supply and distribution chain geared toward almost any kind of a business. It could also be used for non-profit purposes, such as on-line education and telemedicine or e-government. Digitalization: Contexts, Roles, and Outcomes is a contemplation and analysis of the socio-technical system that is known as digitalization. It considers the context of digitalization as well as the ways by which digitalization offers value to the context within which it operates. This book aims to offer readers an entry point to a path of inquiry into the different aspects of digitalization. The goal is to identify main directions for further inquiry as well as to outline the most obvious obstacles along the way. The book aims to guide readers on their own unique journeys using the basic ideas, principles, and concepts synthesized, developed, and presented in the book. It is beneficial to both practitioners and researchers. The book covers: The functionality of digitalization The significance of digitalization Identifying the context of digitalization Designing a control system A cognitive model for the theory of digitalization Designing a theory of digitalization The book helps readers to consider the subject of digitalization in a rigorous and rational way so their own perspectives can emerge stronger and be substantiated and reinforced by building an argument vis-à-vis perspectives and points examined in this book.
Digitalizing Consumption: How devices shape consumer culture (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research)
by Franck Cochoy Johan Hagberg Magdalena Petersson McIntyre Niklas SörumContemporary consumer society is increasingly saturated by digital technology, and the devices that deliver this are increasingly transforming consumption patterns. Social media, smartphones, mobile apps and digital retailing merge with traditional consumption spheres, supported by digital devices which further encourage consumers to communicate and influence other consumers to consume. Through a wide range of empirical studies which analyse the impact of digital devices, this volume explores the digitization of consumption and shows how consumer culture and consumption practices are fundamentally intertwined and mediated by digital devices. Exploring the development of new consumer cultures, leading international scholars from sociology, marketing and ethnology examine the effects on practices of consumption and marketing, through topics including big data, digital traces, streaming services, wearables, and social media’s impact on ethical consumption. Digitalizing Consumption makes an important contribution to practice-based approaches to consumption, particularly the use of market devices in consumers’ everyday consumer life, and will be of interest to scholars of marketing, cultural studies, consumer research, organization and management.
Digitally Augmenting Traditional Craft Practices for Social Justice: The Partnership Quilt
by Angelika StrohmayerThis book weaves together disparate worlds of crafting, social justice, and digital technologies around The Partnership Quilt. It crafts a manifesto for meaningful action and design processes in charitable organizations through participatory sewing and its digital augmentation. The book charts a history of how sewing has been used to voice concerns of oppression, and how digital technologies can be embedded into textiles to tell stories more powerfully. It explores the relationship between quilting and research, looking beyond the seams of The Partnership Quilt to shed light on the importance of invisible work behind such participatory, justice-oriented design projects. It concludes with a discussion of the impacts and potential future avenues for research on digitally quilting social justice. “This book is an excellent offering that highlights ways in which visual approaches to research and community work can serve as a canvas for the outpouring of oppression, anger, hope, resilience and reimagining of a socially just future. It is a great gift and valuable resource for academics, activists and students interested in social justice, participatory action research, and digital technologies.” —Puleng Segalo, Professor, University of South Africa, SA “This expansive undertaking exhibits Strohmayer’s force as a thinker, author, and partner in design. From the soldering of electrodes through the review on craft-based activism, Strohmayer generously takes us through a design process from start to finish to examines the relationships that shift along the way. She shows us how worlds of textiles partake in the making of collective futures—nurturing forms of connection as a means of creative expression, self-determination, and remembrance.” —Daniela Rosner, Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington, USA “This book is a highlight for the courageous minds to break the circle and re-think artistic practices as a more justice-oriented, connected and collaborative mechanisms for our futures. You will have a journey to face who and what forms of designs were privileged or silenced in the global history of quilting. You will be inspired and provoked by the making of the Partnership Quilt. The quilt piece is the materialized example that embodies the many ways of touchy-feely conversations and the possibilities to weave, stitch -or this time to quilt new worlds together. This book is about the making of artistic hope. It is about what is possible, once we see the beauty of equity instead of privileges in design.” —Özge Subaşı, Futurewell, Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Visual Arts, Koç University, Turkey "The Partnership Quilt is a powerful example of the transformative power of craftivism. In this book Dr Angelika Strohmayer pragmatically illustrates how carefully considered participatory craft based projects empower those involved, value-add to the important work being done by NGO’s and provide researchers with a methodology that supports and promotes social justice outcomes." —Dr Tal Fitzpatrick, Artist, Craftivist and Disability Support Worker, Naarm (Melbourne), Australia ‘’The Partnership Quilt, as a model of participatory textile making, draws together relational expertise from the distinct worlds of communication technologies, crafting and ecologies of care. With a focus on collaboration, Strohmayer experiments with the quilt as a metaphor for a layered, interdisciplinary research process as well as a material expression of carefully crafted relationships between makers, researchers, charitable organisations and a marginalised group of sex workers. This richly detailed and insightful book is a timely addition to a growing literature around participatory textile making advocating for interdisciplinary practices that address the care and maintenance of peop
Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age
by Jennifer Earl Katrina KimportAn investigation into how specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in political and social protest. Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of "Internet activism," but scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity is different in kind from more traditional forms of activism. Does the global reach and blazing speed of the Internet affect the essential character or dynamics of online political protest? In Digitally Enabled Social Change, Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport examine key characteristics of web activism and investigate their impacts on organizing and participation. Earl and Kimport argue that the web offers two key affordances relevant to activism: sharply reduced costs for creating, organizing, and participating in protest; and the decreased need for activists to be physically together in order to act together. Drawing on evidence from samples of online petitions, boycotts, and letter-writing and e-mailing campaigns, Earl and Kimport show that the more these affordances are leveraged, the more transformative the changes to organizing and participating in protest.
Digitisation and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions
by Siddharth Sareen Katja MüllerThe world is digitising as the need for low-carbon transitions gains urgency. Decarbonising energy requires the digital process control of energy production, transmission and end use. Diversified electrification across sectors requires real-time digital coordination of distributed energy production, At the same time, digitisation is accompanied by significant increases in energy demand, partly compensated through energy efficiency gains.The emergent linkages between digitisation and decarbonisation – that constitute and enable the twin transition – are the subject of this book. The collection features authors from across the social sciences who situate digitisation and low-carbon energy transitions in the socio-technical and political economic contexts in which they unfold, to offer insights on the dynamics and contingencies of digitisation in and beyond the energy sector.This is an open access book.
Digitisation and Precarisation: Redefining Work and Redefining Society (Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung – transdisziplinäre Studien)
by Peter Herrmann Vyacheslav BobkovCurrently it is fashionable to talk about digitisation, robotisation, industry 4.0, but also about the gig economy, the Millenials, precarisation and the like. However, the relevant issues are too often taken in isolation, referring to an extrapolation of overcome structures. The present collection aims on moving further by qualifying some aspects, and also by approaching the topic from distinct perspectives in order to arrive at an assessment of emerging changes of the socio-economic formation. ContentDigitisation and Precarisation – Redefining Work and Redefining Society · Economy of Difference and Social Differentiation. Precarity – searching for a new interpretative paradigm · Society under Threat of Precarity of Employment · Precarious Employment: Definition of the Concept Given by Russian Researchers · Digitisation: A New Form of Precarity or New Opportunities? · Labour market performance and digitisation of work: brief overview · Australia’s precarious workforce and the role of digitisation · The Czech Republic – a Case Study · “Predictable uncertainty” – Social Land Programme in Hungary · Affirmative and Alternative Discourses and Practices of Knowledge Production and Distribution in Turkey · Electric dreams of welfare in the 4th industrial revolution: An actor-network investigation and genealogy of an Algorithm · Bringing Precarity to the Political AgendaThe EditorsVyacheslav Bobkov, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief of the Laboratory of Problems of Life Quality and Living Standards of the Institute of Socio - Economic Problems of Population of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RussiaPeter Herrmann, social philosopher, having worked globally in research and teaching positions in particular on social policy and economics
Digitising Command and Control: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Analysis of Mission Planning and Battlespace Management (Human Factors in Defence)
by Daniel P. Jenkins Neville A. Stanton Guy H. Walker Paul M. Salmon Kirsten M. Revell Laura A. RaffertyThis book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade (Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The analysts distributed their time evenly between these two locations. The human factors team from Brunel University, as part of the HFI DTC, undertook a multi-faceted approach to the investigation, including: - observation of people using the traditional analogue MP/BM processes in the course of their work - cognitive work analysis of the digital MP/BM system - analysis of the tasks and goal structure required by the digital MP/BM - assessment against a usability questionnaire - analysis of the distributed situation awareness - an environmental survey. The book concludes with a summary of the research project's findings and offers many valuable insights. For example, the recommendations for short-term improvements in the current generation of digital MP/BM system address general design improvements, user-interface design improvements, hardware improvements, infrastructure improvements and support improvements. In looking forward to the next generation digital MP/BM systems, general human factors design principles are presented and human factors issues in digitising mission planning are considered.
Digitising Democracy: On Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era - A Legal, Political and Psychological Perspective
by Volker Boehme-NeßlerThis book argues that in the digital era, a reinvention of democracy is urgently necessary. It discusses the mounting evidence showing that digitalisation is pushing classical parliamentary democracy to its limits, offering examples such as how living in a filter bubble and debating with political bots is profoundly changing democratic communication, making it more emotional, hysterical even, and less rational. It also explores how classical democracy involves long, slow thinking and decision processes, which don’t fit to the ever-increasing speed of the digital world, and examines the technical developments some fear will lead to governance by algorithms.In the digitalised world, democracy no longer functions as it has in the past. This does not mean waving goodbye to democracy – instead we need to reinvent it. How this could work is the central theme of this book.
Digitization, Trust and SMEs (Routledge Open Business and Economics)
by Anna Wziątek-Staśko Karolina PobiedzińskaThis book exposes two inspiring research categories: digitization and trust. Digitization is a phenomenon that dynamically modifies the modern world in almost every area. Modern technologies, artificial intelligence and humanoid robots are instruments with an increasingly significant impact on the shape of the management process of modern organizations, including the way people are managed. Trust is a subtle concept, with a very different interpretation, influencing the behaviour of employees in a multifaceted way. A superficial look at the combination of both categories seems to see them as irrational. Upon closer examination, however, it exposes many interesting fields of scientific exploration. Trust, as a research category, has been included in three significant dimensions: in relation to co-workers, superiors and information technology, dominated by digitization. Each draws attention to different problems of priority importance for the organization. Asserting the idea that trust in the conditions of digitization becomes a category of timeless importance in the interdisciplinary dimension, this volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners and advanced students in the fields of management of technology and innovation, organizational studies and leadership.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age
by Brian JeffersonTracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law enforcement agencies have access to more than 100 million names stored in criminal history databases. In some cities, 80 percent of the black male population is registered in these databases. Digitize and Punish explores the long history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years—with devastating impact on poor communities of color.Providing a comprehensive study of the use of digital technology in American criminal justice, Brian Jefferson shows how the technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nation&’s racialized policing and punishment. After examining how the criminal justice system conceptualized the benefits of computers to surveil criminalized populations, Jefferson focuses on New York City and Chicago to provide a grounded account of the deployment of digital computing in urban police departments.By highlighting the intersection of policing and punishment with big data and web technology—resulting in the development of the criminal justice system&’s latest tool, crime data centers—Digitize and Punish makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.
Digitized Labor: The Impact Of The Internet On Employment
by Leonard Waverman Lorenzo Pupillo Eli NoamAs with previous technological revolutions, innovations in the online world have triggered transformations in the labor market and the economy. While the Internet is trumpeted as a great job creator, there are also downsides that need to be identified and dealt with. The book discusses the following topics:Is the Internet a net creator of jobs?How are job profiles changed by the digital economy?What are the impacts on income distribution? Is it a winner-takes-all tournament?What models can facilitate adjustment without slowing innovation?This book features essays from major experts in the field coming from academia, international organizations, the private sector, and civil society. It blends theoretical and applied research presenting results from many countries, with particular emphasis on Europe, the USA, Canada and Asia.
Digitized institutions
by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory & Tressie McMillan CottomA key sociological insight is that institutions, whether education, the economy, politics or the media, shape the contours of individual life and drive inequality. In this Byte, the contributions take up the way that digitally meditated social processes are transforming institutions. The writing here examines the interconnectedness of institutions and considers digitization across schooling, work, and media, with an eye toward how inequality works. Together, these selections yield important insights into critical features of the institutions that mediate our digitized society, arguing that digital sociology’s greatest challenge is measuring inequalities that are produced by society’s datalogical turn.