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This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and academics conducting research across the social sciences. The topics covered are impressively far-ranging and timely, including machine learning, social media, surveillance, misinformation, digital labour, and beyond. This innovative Handbook perfectly captures the state of the art of a field which is rapidly gaining cross-disciplinary interest and global importance, and establishes a thematic framework for future teaching and research. Part 1: Theorising Digital Societies; Part 2: Researching Digital Societies; Part 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action; Part 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas; Part 5: Governance and Regulation; and Part 6: Digital Futures.
The Responsible Innovation of Disruptive Technologies
The Responsible Innovation of Disruptive Technologies
Introduction: Disruptive Technologies in the Context of Digital Societies
The ethical and governance challenges arising in digital societies are exemplified by those innovations falling into the category of ‘disruptive technologies'. The term ‘disruptive technologies’ is often associated with the work of American economist Clayton Christensen. Christensen first used it in a 1995 article with Joseph Bower in the Harvard Business Review 1995 (Bower and Christensen, 1995) and also discussed it further in later works (Christensen, 1997; Christensen and Overdorf, 2000). Disruptive technologies are ...
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