Research Handbook on Digital Transformations

• Other Authors: Olleros, F. Xavier (Editor), Zhegu, Majlinda (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 2016
• Subjects: Information society; Technological innovations > Social aspects; Digital electronics > Social aspects; Innovations > Aspect social
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The digital transition of our economies is now entering a phase of broad and deep societal impact. While there is one overall transition, there are many different sectoral transformations, from health and legal services to tax reports and taxi rides, as well as a rising number of transversal trends...

Table of Contents:

• Digital transformations: an introduction / F. Xavier Olleros and Majlinda Zhegu
• Part I sectoral analyses
• 1. How online learning will transform legal education / David I. C. Thomson
• 2. The digital future of the oldest information profession / Ray Worthy Campbell
• 3. Medicine in the age of smart machines: legal liability challenges / Fazal Khan
• 4. Digital health technologies and digital data: new ways of monitoring, measuring and commodifying human bodies / Deborah Lupton
• 5. The digital disruption of banking and payment services / David Arnold and Paul Jeffery
• 6. Collaboration, participation, and transparency: the promise of digitizing academic research / Sascha Friesike and Benedikt Fecher
• 7. University libraries in the digital era / Kyle K. Courtney and Emily Kilcer
• 8. Online dating platforms: a tool for social science research / Andreas Schmitz and Doreen Zillmann
• 9. Atoms matter: the role of local 'makerspaces' in the coming digital economy / Joel West and Anne Greul
• 10. Smart cities, social capital and citizens at play: a critique and a way forward / Marcus Foth, Andrew Hudson-Smith and Dean Gifford
• Part II transversal topics
• 11. Blockchain technology: principles and applications / Marc Pilkington
• 12. 3d printing and intellectual property / Lucas Osborn
• 13. Big data and the future for privacy / Neil M. Richards and Jonathan H. King
• 14. Crowdwork, corporate social responsibility and fair labor practices / Miriam A. Cherry and Winifred R. Poster
• 15. Crowdfunding: principles, trends and issues / Stéphane Onnée and Sophie Renault
• 16. The gamification of education and business: a critical analysis and future research prospects / Amy Duvernet, Alberto Asquer and Inna Krachkovskaya
• 17. The impact of digital technologies on innovation policy / Kenji E. Kushida 18. Innovation policy for cloud-computing contracts / John M. Newman
• 19. Competition policy in a world of big data / Simonetta Vezzoso
• 20. A continuum of internet-based crime: how the effectiveness of cybersecurity policies varies across cybercrime types / Eric Jardine