The big tech companies are poised to establish early positions of dominance in the emerging XR economy. We offer a novel layer model of the emerging XR economy to support regulatory interventions that target structural sources of power.
Research articles on INNOVATION
Can community-based policing and the ‘Court of Twitter’ achieve individual notions of justice related to allegations of abuse on Twitch?
This introduction situates Digital Solidarity Economies (DSE) as an analytical and practical framework for reimagining the digital economy through cooperation, mutual aid, and shared ownership.
Although they are breaking with uberisation, bike delivery platform cooperatives are nonetheless two-fold organisations - political and economic - whose compromises generate grey zones explored in this article through the economic relationships, labour process and knowledge management of a Barcelona-based case study.
Colliding ideas from art and digital technology law to bridge disciplinary silos and generate learning impact.
What happens when legal principles meet speculative storytelling and role-play workshops? Our interdisciplinary team found new ways to govern smart glasses, leading to the ‘ethics of interactions’ framework.
This article considers the public value of automated and datafied welfare and uses the capability approach, buen vivir, and data justice to explore the relation between the procedural and normative components of emerging infrastructures of welfare.
This paper investigates decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) as a potential policy response to the issue of declining trust online and argues that while DAOs have privileged displacing the need for trust, they can also be designed to nourish trust thereby fostering participation and prosocial use cases.
Digital organising refers to the collective purposeful alignment and distributed action fostered through digital technologies. The apparently opposing nature of digital organising draws attention to the need to unravel the concept theoretically.
We focus on using patent data, with machine learning methods, in the context of China, for the purpose of tracking the pace of development of potentially human rights sensitive smart city technologies.