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Digital Transformation and Human Behavior: Innovation for People and Organisations (Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation #37)
by Stefano Za Alessandra Lazazzara Concetta Metallo Maria FerraraThe digital transformation is impacting various aspects of how we live and work. Due to the pervasive effects of the digital revolution on firms and societies, both scholars and practitioners are interested in better understanding the key mechanisms behind the related challenges. This book presents a collection of research papers focusing on the relationships between technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, social media, and the Internet of Things) and behaviours (e.g. social learning, knowledge sharing, and decision-making). Moreover, it provides insights into how the digital transformation may improve quality of personal life and work life within public and private organisations. The plurality of views offered makes this book particularly relevant for practitioners, companies, scientists, and governments. It gathers a selection of the best papers - original double-blind peer-reviewed contributions - presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the AIS which was held in Naples, Italy, in September 2019.
Digital Transformation and Social Well-Being: Promoting an Inclusive Society
by Antonio López Peláez Sergei Zelenev Sang-Mok SuhThis is the first book to show how digitalisation and the better provision of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can improve access to a wide-range of social services, as well as make them more inclusive. Overcoming disparities across social groups using contemporary digitalisation models will have lasting consequences on social well-being and human welfare.Reflecting on current trends the authors vividly illustrate the collective, global nature of the challenge that digitalisation represents for providers, administrators and users of welfare services. It is important, therefore, to bear in mind the following for research design and practice: • Citizens' rights must be protected. • Consideration should be given to how the services provided can be improved by more effective use of ICTs. • Digital interventions require better service coordination in the setting of priorities and specific training in digital skills for service providers and service users. The chapters in this book address these problems and challenges in great depth, analysing the role of ICTs in promoting social inclusion and social welfare, drawing on examples of successful ICT applications around the world. The book contains country case-studies from the United States, Brazil, India, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong (China), Zimbabwe, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Singapore and will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, to social work educators, and social care providers.
Digital Transformation in Business and Society: Theory and Cases
by Justin Paul Babu GeorgeThe digital traces that people leave behind as they conduct their daily lives provide a powerful resource for businesses to better understand the dynamics of an otherwise chaotic society. Digital technologies have become omnipresent in our lives and we still do not fully know how to make the best use of the data these technologies could harness. Businesses leveraging big data appropriately could definitely gain a sustainable competitive advantage. With a balanced mix of texts and cases, this book discusses a variety of digital technologies and how they transform people and organizations. It offers a debate on the societal consequences of the yet unfolding technological revolution and proposes alternatives for harnessing disruptive technologies for the greater benefit of all. This book will have wide appeal to academics in technology management, strategy, marketing, and human resource management.
Digital Transformation in Educational Organizations: Leadership, Innovation and Industry 4.0 (Routledge Open Business and Economics)
by Paweł PoszytekTechnological transformation should lead to enhance people’s potential and the development of their cognitive and social competences, especially those connected with effective communication on different levels. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified all these processes and, for better resilience and effectiveness at work, it requires now different sets of competences. This book gives direct insight into changes that take place in education in the context of an unprecedented and rapid technological advancement, which requires the reorientation of goals and functions based on innovative, adaptive and flexible solutions – in most cases driven by individual leadership. It describes the way to reach this reorientation and shows through thorough research how educational leaders position themselves on this way in this fast-changing ecosystem. Exploring how educational leaders manage the challenges of digital transformation, using European collaborative projects, this research volume discusses how this process impacts the effectiveness and sustainability of organizational activities. Establishing a model for assessing digital transformation in educational organizations and evaluating the effectiveness of their leaders, it will be of value to researchers, academics, practitioners, and advanced students in the fields of leadership, organizational change, management of technology and innovation, and those interested in the development of education and the utilization of digitalization.
Digital Transformation in Higher Education. Empowering Teachers and Students for Tomorrow’s Challenges: First International Workshop, Back2Basics 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 10, 2024, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2247)
by Maria Perifanou Anastasios A. EconomidesThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Digital Transformation in Higher Education. Empowering Teachers and Students for Tomorrow’s Challenges, Back2Basics 2024, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on June 10, 2024. This workshop was part of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2024), which took place in Thessaloniki on June 10–13, 2024. The 06 full papers here were thoroughly reviewed and selected from a total of 09 submissions. This interdisciplinary event brought together researchers and educators from various European higher education institutions to address the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in higher education (HE).
Digital Transformation in Your Manufacturing Business: A Made Smarter Guide
by Will KinghornAre you a manufacturing leader and unsure of which technology can help grow your business? Have you heard about 3D printing, Industry 4.0, robots, or artificial intelligence but don’t know how they can be used in manufacturing?This book gives a clear and practical guide to manufacturing technologies, providing examples of how they’re used, as well as the tools and techniques you’ll need to get started. Each technology is covered in a brief and simple way allowing you to understand it quickly and decide if it’s worth investigating for your business.In addition to this book, the online resources will provide you with templates and examples to help you get started. At every stage there are suggestions for the key terms you will need to find more information appropriate to your industry.This isn’t just about technology, it’s a roadmap for your digital transformation. Start with guidance on setting your company’s vision and direction, to getting the people in your business engaged and ready to adopt technology. Move on to exploring each of the technologies, and the tools and techniques you’ll find useful along the way. Finally, connect the technologies with the tools that are appropriate, and look at common issues in manufacturing businesses and how these can be resolved.Get started with making informed decisions, embracing technologies, and transforming your business.
Digital Transformation of Collaboration: Proceedings of the 9th International COINs Conference (Springer Proceedings in Complexity)
by Peter A. Gloor Francesca Grippa Aleksandra PrzegalinskaThis proceedings is focused on the emerging concept of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). COINs are at the core of collaborative knowledge networks, distributed communities taking advantage of the wide connectivity and the support of communication technologies, spanning beyond the organizational perimeter of companies on a global scale. The book presents the refereed conference papers from the 7th International Conference on COINs, October 8-9, 2019, in Warsaw, Poland. It includes papers for both application areas of COINs, (1) optimizing organizational creativity and performance, and (2) discovering and predicting new trends by identifying COINs on the Web through online social media analysis. Papers at COINs19 combine a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems and the psychology and sociality of collaboration, and intercultural analysis through the lens of online social media. They will cover most recent advances in areas from leadership and collaboration, trend prediction and data mining, to social competence and Internet communication.
Digital Transformation, Perspective Development, and Value Creation: Research Case Studies (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
by Małgorzata PańkowskaThis edited collection aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of business management. It covers case studies provided by teachers visiting the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland, within Erasmus and CEEPUS Programmes. Over 12 years, approximately 25 teachers have been coming year by year to Katowice, presenting their monographic lectures and participating in seminars on their research results and educational achievements. This book contains descriptions of case studies, elaborated by Erasmus and CEEPUS teachers, illustrating that the case study is a method of research as well as a method applied in education and emphasizing the value of qualitative methods by example of case studies. The key benefit of qualitative research is that it allows a researcher to perceive and understand context within which decisions and actions take place. Hence, to understand peoples’ motivations, their reasons, their actions, and the context for their beliefs and actions, qualitative research is the best route. Assuming that business organizations as well as individuals are entirely linked together via the Internet, a new approach to business communication and marketing, business modelling and management are developed to reveal an increase of business synergy effects, the alignment of information and communication technologies (ICT) and business and social value creation, as well as sustainability and environment protection. Through this book, readers have an opportunity to learn about relevance and rigor in qualitative research and how the case study can be applied in various organizational contexts.
Digital Transformation: 14th PLAIS EuroSymposium on Digital Transformation, PLAIS EuroSymposium 2022, Sopot, Poland, December 15, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #465)
by Paulo Rupino da Cunha Jacek Maślankowski Bartosz MarcinkowskiThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th PLAIS EuroSymposium 2022 which was held in Sopot, Poland, on December 15, 2022. The objective of the PLAIS EuroSymposium is to promote and develop high quality research on all issues related to digital transformation. It provides a forum for IS researchers and practitioners in Europe and beyond to interact, collaborate, and develop this field. The leading topic for the EuroSymposium this year was “Digital Transformation”. The 8 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: artificial intelligence; creativity and innovations; big data, internet of things and blockchain technologies.
Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction
by Thomas M. SiebelFrom visionary Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tom Siebel comes a penetrating examination of the new technologies that are disrupting business and government_x2014_and how organizations can harness them to transform into digital enterprises. The confluence of four technologies_x2014_elastic cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things _x2014_writes Siebel, is fundamentally changing how business and government will operate in the 21st century. Siebel masterfully guides readers through a fascinating discussion of the game-changing technologies driving digital transformation and provides a roadmap to seize them as a strategic opportunity. He shows how leading enterprises such as Enel, 3M, Royal Dutch Shell, the U.S. Department of Defense, and others are applying AI and IoT with stunning results. Digital Transformation is the guidebook every business and government leader needs to survive and thrive in the new digital age.
Digital Transformations in Care for Older People: Critical Perspectives
by Helena Hirvonen, Mia Tammelin, Riitta Hänninen and Eveline J.M. WoutersThe book investigates digitalisation in care for older people by giving insight into service users’ and professionals’ opportunities to digital agency in the context of European welfare states. With a focus on service users and providers experiences of digital care, the contributions address the manifold and often contradictory consequences of active ageing policies and innovation programmes. To assess digital agency of older people, ageism and co-creation in the innovation processes as well the use of digital platforms are addressed, while care professionals’ digital agency is examined through empirical cases that focus on the interaction between human and non-human actors in long-term care services, the temporality and spatiality of care, and the organisational requirements for successful implementation of digital technologies. From a variety of conceptual and theoretical viewpoints, the chapters provide a comprehensive and timely overview of ways to address the phenomena of ageing and digitalisation. The book provides critical vantage points to academic readership, health and social care professionals, policymakers, other stakeholders as well as the general audience on the effects of digitalisation in care for older people.
Digital Urban Acupuncture
by Salvatore Iaconesi Oriana PersicoThis book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can be used to define new forms of citizenship and participated city governance. The work is the result of years of research across sciences, arts, design, ethnography, cultural geography, performed by multiple researchers, understanding the Relational Ecosystems of cities (the flows of relation, information, knowledge and emotion in the city) and using them to reinterpret the concept of Urban Acupuncture: from the Third Space, Third Landscape and Third Generation City, to the Third Infoscape; from Urban Acupuncture to Digital Urban Acupuncture. The book starts by exploring the many theories and methodologies which have been used to try to capture and use the revolutionary potential found in the daily lives of cities. From De Certeau, to Latour, Bateson, Bhabha, and all the way to Castells, Clèment, Boyd, Casagrande. In a progression which moves from the Third Space (Soja, De Certeau), to the Third Landscape (Clèment), to the Third Generation City (Casagrande), to the Third Paradise (Pistoletto), the book arrives at a definition of the Third Infoscape, following up on Kevin Lynch: a new legibility and imageability of the city. Its main themes and objectives lie in the desire to observe and understand the radical transformation of the definitions, boundaries and configurations of what we call public and private spaces, in different cultures and communities, in the age of communication, information and knowledge, and to use these understandings to formulate a set of working hypotheses for the positive, constructive, active and participatory usage of these transformed scenarios, contributing to the re-definition of concepts such as citizenship, city-governance, urban planning, civic decision-making, and more. And using, in the process, techniques such as Urban Acupuncture, Actor-Network Theory, Diasporic analysis, Peer-to-peer Urbanism and more. Multiple real-life research scenarios and documented case studies will be used, from 4 continents, coming from our research and from other international contributions.
Digital Virtual Consumption (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology)
by Janice Denegri-Knott Mike MolesworthDigital media present opportunities for new types of consumption including desiring, buying, collecting, making, and even selling digital virtual goods. To these activities we can add those taking place in virtual communities of consumption, online shops, brand websites, and online auction houses that together amount to a vast new landscape of consumption. Digital virtual consumption motivates concatenated practices which produce meaningful experience for their users as well as market opportunities to profit from them. Consumers create and maintain elaborate wish lists, engaging with simulations of brands on websites and in videogames, coveting items for use in online games and even spending ‘real’ money on these, undertaking entrepreneurial activity in virtual worlds, conjuring nostalgia via online auctions, engaging in playful consumption in other new retail formats, writing reviews of products as part of the consumption experience, engaging in online activist activities, and many other emerging behaviors. Analyses of consumption in the digital virtual realm are however limited. This collection brings together experienced researchers from the fields of consumer research, digital games, and virtual worlds to provide conceptual and empirical work that helps us understand these new and significant consumer activities. Online communities negotiate the ‘correct’ use of goods and offer technical advice, consumers develop new products, individuals create and distribute their own promotional material for their favorite brands, and entrepreneurial consumers marketing and selling their own products online. Here we may see a blurring of consumption and production, or work and leisure activity that requires further thought about what makes it meaningful for individuals. The chapters in this volume take stock of the emergence and likely importance of digital virtual consumption for consumer culture, including a review of both new and existing conceptual and methodological tools as well as a resource of key examples and analyses of practices.
Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers: Critical Perspectives on Digital Guru Media (Routledge Critical Leisure Studies)
by Stefan LawrenceThis book examines the phenomenon of ‘digital guru media’ (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who post on the themes of wellness, health and fitness. It opens up new perspectives on digital leisure and internet celebrity culture, and asks important questions about the social, cultural and psychological implications of our contemporary relationship with digital media. Drawing on cutting-edge social theory, the book explores a wide range of contexts in which DGM intersects with digital leisure, from the health-related learning of young people to the ‘clean eating’ movement, to the online lives of fitness professionals. It asks if digital and social media are problematic per se and explores the problems a turn to the Internet could be revealing about the lack of real-world or analogue support, as well as potential solutions, for our wellness, health and fitness needs and wants. Bringing together innovative, multi-disciplinary perspectives, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in leisure studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, or health and society.
Digital Youth
by Kaveri Subrahmanyam David SmahelYouth around the world are fittingly described as digital natives because of their comfort and skill with technological hardware and content. Recent studies indicate that an overwhelming majority of children and teenagers use the Internet, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Equipped with familiarity and unprecedented access, it is no wonder that adolescents consume, create, and share copious amounts of content. But is there a cost? Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development recognizes the important role of digital tools in the lives of teenagers and presents both the risks and benefits of these new interactive technologies. From social networking to instant messaging to text messaging, the authors create an informative and relevant guidebook that goes beyond description to include developmental theory and implications. Also woven throughout the book is an international sensitivity and understanding that clarifies how, despite the widespread popularity of digital communication, technology use varies between groups globally. Other specific topics addressed include: Sexuality on the Internet.Online identity and self-presentation.Morality, ethics, and civic engagement.Technology and health.Violence, cyberbullying, and victimization.Excessive Internet use and addictive behavior. This comprehensive volume is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians, and graduate students across such disciplines as developmental/clinical child/school psychology, social psychology, media psychology, medical and allied health professions, education, and social work.
Digital Youth Subcultures: Performing ‘Transgressive’ Identities in Digital Social Spaces (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society)
by Kate Hoskins Carlo Genova Nic CroweThis book draws together both primary and secondary empirical research and existing literature to examine transgressive subcultural activities and engagement in digital social spaces (DSS). The book addresses four objectives: 1. To understand how young peoples’ subcultures arise online and they are constructed and experienced in DSS 2. To understand how and why DSS matter to young people 3. To understand if any DSS controls exist in these online spaces and 4. To understand how identity locations such as social class, gender and ethnicity and/or their intersections shape young peoples’ engagement and behaviour(s) in DSS. In addressing these objectives with a focus on European contributions, the text provides a holistic understanding of the purpose of digital social spaces in shaping young peoples’ identities and self-perceptions. It will be of interest to postgraduate students, secondary school teachers, lecturers and scholars in education, sociology, youth studies and technology.
Digital and Postdigital Learning for Changing Universities (World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education)
by Maggi Savin-BadenThis book explores the purpose, role and function of the university and examines the disconnection between students’ approaches to learning and university strategy. It centres on the idea that it is vital to explore what counts as a university in the twenty-first century, what it is for, and for whom, as well as how it can transcend social divisions. The universities of the twenty-first century need to have larger audiences, a broader voice, a shift away from othering and an effective means of progressing such shifts. What is central to such exploration is the idea that learning needs to be seen as postdigital. With a focus on how the growth of technology has and continues to affect university learning, this book: explores the concepts of the digital and the postdigital; promotes just and inclusive pedagogies for higher education; considers ways to ensure learning is an ethical and political experience; studies how to understand community and collective values through higher education; suggests ways of promoting personal and collective responsibility for our world and its peoples; presents ways in which the university can challenge ideologies based on capitalist modes of consumption, privilege and exploitation. Digital and Postdigital Learning for Changing Universities is essential reading for anyone seeking to reimagine the university in a postdigital age, despite institutional structuration and government intervention. It challenges current assumptions and practices, and encourages new ways of thinking about higher education and learning in the twenty-first century.
Digital and Smart Cities (Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City)
by Katharine S. Willis Alessandro AurigiDigital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities. There is a growing awareness in the fields of design and architecture of the need to address the way that technology affects the urban condition. This book aims to give an informative and definitive overview of the topic of digital and smart cities. It explores the topic from a range of different perspectives, both theoretical and historical, and through a range of case studies of digital cities around the world. The approach taken by the authors is to view the city as a socially constructed set of activities, practices and organisations. This enables the discussion to open up a more holistic and citizen- centred understanding of how technology shapes urban change through the way it is imagined, used, implemented and developed in a societal context. By drawing together a range of currently quite disparate discussions, the aim is to enable the reader to take their own critical position within the topic. The book starts out with definitions and sets out the various interpretations and aspects of what constitutes and defines digital cities. The text then investigates and considers the range of factors that shape the characteristics of digital cities and draws together different disciplinary perspectives into a coherent discussion. The consideration of the different dimensions of the digital city is backed up with a series of relevant case studies of global city contexts in order to frame the discussion with real world examples.
Digital and Social Media Marketing: A Results-Driven Approach
by Tahir Rashid Ana Cruz Gordon Fletcher Aleksej HeinzeDigital and Social Media Marketing: A Results-Driven Approach is an exciting new industry-led, research-informed and results-driven guide to digital commerce. Its examples draw from SMEs and from Europe to offer a unique perspective for those learning about digital marketing and, having been developed in close collaboration with the Search Engine Marketing Trade Association (SEMTA), it is a reliable source of prevailing industry standards for practitioners at the cutting edge of their trade. Unlike other digital marketing texts, this accessible textbook gives special consideration to the ethical challenges raised by an increasingly digital world. Equally unique is the book’s Digital Business Maturity Model, which offers organisations a clear roadmap for understanding their relative levels of technology adoption. Embracing the true spirit of Digital and Social Media Marketing, the book will be the first of its kind in this field with digital learning materials, case studies and exercises available in a supporting Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The MOOC will enhance learners’ experience and create an interactive international learning community. This book will provide a hands on, accessible and user friendly platform to turn skills and knowledge into strategic advantage. Ideal for postgraduate learners, instructors interested in providing a unique and up-to-date learning experience and for SMEs and practitioners aiming to be at the cutting edge of Digital and Social Media Marketing.
Digital and Social Media Marketing: A Results-Driven Approach
by Tahir Rashid Ana Cruz Gordon Fletcher Aleksej HeinzeThe second edition of Digital and Social Media Marketing is an up-to-date, industry-led results-driven guide to digital marketing. Mixing academic theory with practical examples from a range of different organisations worldwide, it provides insight into, and techniques to enable, the creation, development and maintenance of a successful digital presence. This highly regarded textbook has been fully revised to bring the content up-to-date with the newest digital technologies. With topics including developing an effective digital presence, search engine optimization, and measuring brand awareness, the new edition also looks at digital ethics, General Data Protection Regulation and privacy, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and voice strategies. New international case studies are explored, including Alibaba and Amazon, as well as revised practical exercises in each chapter, enabling students to see how the concepts underpinning digital and social media marketing support business success. The book’s customisable Digital Business Maturity Model, and the Buyer Persona Spring, offer organisations a clear road map for understanding their own levels of technology adoption and digital strategy development. This accessible textbook provides a hands-on, user-friendly platform to turn skills and knowledge into strategic advantage. It is ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of digital marketing and marketing strategy and for practitioners aiming to be at the cutting edge of digital and social media marketing. Alongside electronic resources for each chapter, this new edition also includes digital learning materials, case studies and exercises available in a supporting online learning environment. The online materials further enhance learners’ experience and support a worldwide learning community.
Digital and Social Media Marketing: A Results-Driven Approach
by Ana Cruz Gordon Fletcher Aleksej Heinze Alex FentonNow in its third edition, Digital and Social Media Marketing provides a practice-led approach to digital marketing. This highly regarded textbook combines academic theory with practical examples from a range of different organisations worldwide to highlight techniques for the development and maintenance of a successful digital presence. The book’s customisable models offer organisations a way to decipher their current situation and plan a clear road map for developing a marketing strategy appropriate for the digital era.This rich and accessible textbook has been fully updated to reflect the current global landscape. The content of this third edition has been expanded to: consider the concept of GDPR as a sound framework for responsible marketing offer a greater focus on sustainable marketing throughout, linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals place emphasis on the importance of crisis and reputation management explore the latest material in big data, data management and data privacy cover the latest in martech trends, particularly related to automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence provide new case studies from China, India, Nigeria and across Asia, alongside student activities and questions designed to improve learning outcomes This textbook provides a hands-on, user-friendly platform to turn skills and knowledge into a strategic advantage. It is ideal for advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and executive students of digital marketing and marketing strategy, as well as for practitioners aiming to be at the cutting edge of digital and social media marketing. Online resources include PowerPoint slides and a test bank.
Digital bodies
by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory & Tressie McMillan CottomIn the early days of the internet, we assumed that digital technologies would allow us to escape embodiment and its accompanying entanglements. Yet now our embodied selves are often targeted for abuse and harassment online. As we move into the Internet of Things, the digital is increasingly on and in our bodies. The pieces in this Byte raise important questions about what it means to bring our embodied selves into contact with digital media technologies. Read alongside one another, the selections here expand our understanding of what it means to live in and through bodies augmented by digital technologies within a deeply unequal social world.
Digital ist besser?! Psychologie der Online- und Mobilkommunikation
by Markus Appel Fabian Hutmacher Christoph Mengelkamp Jan-Philipp Stein Silvana WeberMacht das digitale Zeitalter unser Leben besser, komplizierter oder vielleicht beides zugleich? Welche Chancen und Risiken sind mit Internet und Smartphone verbunden?Diese Einführung in die Psychologie der Online- und Mobilkommunikation widmet sich verschiedenen Bereichen der digitalen Kommunikation, die in unserem Alltag eine zentrale Rolle spielen, u.a.:· Social Media, Onlinedating und digitalen Lernumwelten· Fake News, Verschwörungstheorien· Cyberbullying (Cybermobbing) · Roboter, virtuelle Realitäten· Künstliche Intelligenz.Die anschaulichen und fundierten Beiträge wurden allesamt von Expert:innen verfasst und bieten eine aktuelle und umfassende Informationsgrundlage. Im Zentrum stehen dabei wissenschaftlich fundierte Erkenntnisse, die mitunter überraschen dürften. Mit Fragen und Antworten online sowie Zusatzmaterial über die Lehrbuch-Begleitwebsite. Mit Geleitworten von Prof. Dr. Bernad Batinic (JKU Linz) und Jasmina Neudecker (bekannt aus TerraX).
Digital sociology in everyday life
by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory & Tressie McMillan CottomDigital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood. Through studies of the digital everyday, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate the sociological imagination in light of digitization. Chapters in this Byte cover topics such as designing a research framework and how to work ethically as a digital researcher, continually interrogating one’s position as a researcher and reflecting on the process of knowledge creation. Cumulatively, they highlight the value of sociological theory for understanding our digital world.
Digital verbunden – sozial getrennt: Gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit in räumlicher Perspektive
by Jörg SchefferDie Digitalisierung festigt die bestehenden gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse. Entgegen dem vorherrschenden Narrativ einer „digitalen Befähigung“ und den viel beschriebenen Chancen für jeden Einzelnen, macht dieses Buch deutlich, dass die Digitalisierung die sozialen Aufstiegschancen massiv beschneidet. In einer räumlichen Perspektive lässt sich zeigen, wie sozial benachteiligte Bevölkerungen im Zeichen einer neuen Datenökonomie mit reproduktiven Mechanismen konfrontiert werden. Das Soziale wird konserviert. Dies geschieht erstaunlicherweise umso stärker, je intensiver die digitalen Angebote in Anspruch genommen werden.