Political theory of the digital age

where artificial intelligence might take us

With the rise of far-reaching technological innovation, from artificial intelligence to Big Data, human life is increasingly unfolding in digital lifeworlds. While such developments have made unprecedented changes to the ways we live, our political practices have failed to evolve at pace with these profound ...

The entrepreneurs

the relentless quest for value

Entrepreneurs are among the primary shapers of our culture, yet their role in driving progress and influencing society has often been overlooked. As far back as we can trace human history, there have been entrepreneurs. Almost five millennia ago, copper tool manufacturers set up a ...

La condición digital

La condición humana es ya condición digital. La aceleración de la digitalización durante la pandemia no ha hecho sino confirmar el camino hacia la digitalización de la vida que emprendimos en los primeros años de este siglo. Esta digitalización conduce a la alteración de las ...

Aportaciones jurídicas a la economía de plataformas

Nos hallamos inmersos en la actualidad en la denominada economía de plataformas , expresión preferible a la de economía colaborativa con frecuencia utilizada todavía para referirse de forma generalizada e indiscriminada a la actividad desarrollada por y a través de las plataformas digitales, al margen de ...

Your boss is an algorithm

artificial intelligence, platform work and labour

What effect do robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the world of work? Using case studies and examples from across the EU, the UK, and the US, this book provides a compass to navigate this technological transformation as well as the regulatory options available ...

Our data, ourselves

a personal guide to digital privacy

Our Data, Ourselves addresses a common and crucial question: What can we as private individuals do to protect our personal information in a digital world? In this practical handbook, legal expert Jacqueline D. Lipton guides readers through important issues involving technology, data collection, and digital ...

The Market power of technology

understanding the Second Gilded Age

Since the 1980s, the United States has regressed to a level of economic inequality not seen since the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century. At the same time, technological innovation has transformed society, and a core priority of public policy has been promoting innovation ...

eSports: el Derecho deportivo en entornos digitales

Cualquier regulación sobre nuevas tecnologías debe funcionar como un catalizador del desarrollo y promover su crecimiento, algo necesario en el caso de los eSports, que por su naturaleza son disruptivos, con vocación de superar fronteras físicas y geográficas y que necesitan de un marco jurídico ...

Influence empire

the story of Tencent and China's tech ambition

In 2017, a company known as Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West accustomed to regarding the global tech industry through the prism of Silicon Valley: Facebook, Google ...

Dominio y sometimiento

esclavos, animales, máquinas, inteligencia artificial

¿Cómo se ha producido la transición desde el esclavo que describe el Código de Hammurabi, que, además de estar marcado a fuego, debía llevar colgado del cuello su nombre y el de su amo, hasta el ciudadano de un Estado democrático contemporáneo? Remo Bodei explora ...

The spirit of digital capitalism

Digital technologies are now central to the machinations of capitalism. How are they giving rise to new forms of capital accumulation and domination? And in what terms are these changes being promoted and justified by a new and incredibly powerful elite? This book takes on ...

The New Goliaths

how corporations use software to dominate industries, kill innovation, and undermine regulation

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn't break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge "Bessen is a master of unpacking the nuances of a complex array of interrelated trends to build a coherent story of how ...

El metaverso

y cómo lo revolucionará todo

El término metaverso está en todas partes, desde las portadas de los periódicos hasta los discursos de los directores ejecutivos de las Big Tech, incluidos Sataya Nadella y Mark Zuckerberg, quienes revelaron en octubre de 2021 que Facebook estaba cambiando su nombre a Meta. Pero ...

The knowledge economy

Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. This book explores ...

Platform socialism

how to reclaim our digital future from big tech

'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century ...

Marx and the robots

networked production, AI and human labour

Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological developments within capitalist ...

Going remote

how the flexible work economy can improve our lives and our cities

A leading urban economist's hopeful study of how shifts to remote work can change all of our lives for the better. As COVID-19 descended upon the country in 2020, millions of American office workers transitioned to working from home to reduce risk of infection ...

Access rules

freeing data from big tech for a better future

A powerful and urgent call to action: to improve our lives and our societies, we must demand open access to data for all. Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational ...

Innovación social y elementos diferenciales de la economía social y cooperativa

'Identidad cooperativa: puesta en valor de los elementos diferenciales de la Economía cooperativa y solidaria' fue el tema del XIV Congreso de la Red Universitaria Euro-Latinoamericana de Economía Social y Cooperativa (RULESCOOP), que se celebró em octubre de 2021 en la sede del Centro de ...

Amenazas sociales de la revolución digital

Los avances de las TIC y de Internet, unidos a los posteriores de la Robótica y la Inteligencia Artificial, han cambiado de tal modo la trayectoria vital de la Sociedad que tiene sentido citar la Revolución Digital como una característica de nuestra época. Estas tecnologías ...