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Published in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 1/2019

01-06-2019 | Editorial

Book title: Digitalization & society

A sociology of technology perspective on current trends in data, digital security and the internet

Authors: Christoph Musik, Alexander Bogner

Published in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie | Special Issue 1/2019

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Modern society is in the thick of digitalization. In almost all areas of social life, we find a wide array of different practices that are subject to digital change. The Internet and social media platforms have changed how we receive information and experience entertainment, socialize, shop, and present ourselves. We develop and are confronted with new digital business models that are based on the “new gold” of user and process data. Apps and “smart” machines are designed to make sense of these data in order to automatically understand patterns or to control industrial processes in the context of Industry 4.0 (the Fourth Industrial Revolution). Algorithms, autonomous vacuum cleaners, cars or weapons and humanoid robots are in different stages of development and implementation. All of these manifestations and practices are obviously connected to questions of digital security, democracy, and how politics and legislation deal with these new phenomena of digitalization. …

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Metadata
Title
Book title: Digitalization & society
A sociology of technology perspective on current trends in data, digital security and the internet
Authors
Christoph Musik
Alexander Bogner
Publication date
01-06-2019
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Published in
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie / Issue Special Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1011-0070
Electronic ISSN: 1862-2585
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-019-00344-5

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