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Im Juli 2019 ist das HBS Working Paper Forschungsförderung 145 mit dem Titel »Das Phänomen Sharing Economy am Beispiel des Foodsektors« von Jasmin Schreyer erschienen. Weitere Informationen

José van Dijck und Kollegen haben im OA-Journal Internet Policy Review jüngst den Artikel »Reframing Platform Power« veröffentlicht und schlagen darin drei paradigmatische Reorientierungen vor:

»First, academics and policymakers need to deliver a more precise analysis and nuanced assessment of how the integrated ecosystem of platforms functions. […] Such analyses can become more concrete when starting with an inquiry into selected areas of infrastructural power […]. But rather than examining them as single markets run by single proprietary ecosystems in the interests of consumers, it is essential to approach them as part of an integrated ecosystem inhabited by citizens who have become fully dependent on these systems for governing their personal and collective wellbeing.

Secondly, nuanced analyses of power in the integrated platform ecosystem can help articulate a cohesive set of governance principles, both at the EU-level as well as at national and local levels. New EU-reports evaluating approaches to platforms and data are beginning to show an awareness towards integrated societal interests […]. And at the local level, there is a growing awareness that cities and civil society organisations play a vital role in communal efforts to govern the platform society […].

Thirdly, an analytic reframing of platform power could nourish efforts in various countries to harmonise, expand, and update current regulation. Harmonising single regulatory frameworks for antitrust, consumer, and competition law with recent updated frameworks that address privacy, media regulation, and net neutrality may be a first step towards an integrative approach […].«

Das Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) beriet den US-Kongress 1972 bis 1995 in wissenschaftlichen und technischen Fragen. 1981 publizierte das OTA den Bericht »Computer-Based National Information Systems: Technology and Public Policy Issues«, in dem bereits zahlreiche Problem- und Fragestellungen aufgegriffen wurden, die auch heute noch die Debatten um die ›digitale Transformation‹ prägen (S. IXf.):

Das Sonderheft der ÖZS zum Thema »Digitalization and Society« ist erschienen. Mit dabei: Der Beitrag »Digital Deceleration. Protest and Societal Irritation in the Internet Age« von Marc Mölders und mir.

Our article examines new potentials for systemic irritation in the Internet age and focuses on the processes of synchronization between media, politics, and law. […] the search for and the design of opportune forms of irritation remains a complex organizational process. To irritate other societal contexts effectively, civil counter forces exercise self-control particularly regarding temporality, retarding their operations according to the operational speed of the addressed meaning systems. This deliberate deceleration in operational timing is considerably facilitated by digital technologies. In the final chapter, we contextualize our empirical findings within a broader evolutionary perspective on social reality construction.

Vor rund 100 Jahren ist Max Webers Aufsatz »Wissenschaft als Beruf« erschienen, der auf einem Vortrag aus dem Jahr 1917 basiert und sich mit den Ambivalenzen einer Wissenschaftslaufbahn bzw. eines Wissenschaftslebens auseinandersetzt. Nachfolgend einige Ausschnitte daraus, die mir auch heute noch treffsicher erscheinen: