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Assessing Technologies: Global Patterns of Trust and Distrust. Report on one session at the XVIII World Congress of Sociology
Moniz, António - In: Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis 24 (2015) 1, pp. 119-121
(ISA) before. The first steps towards establishing this association were taken in 1948, at the initiative of the Social … Science Department of UNESCO. Its formal foundation was in 1949. The World Congress of Sociology in Japan was hopefully the … beginning of continuous integration of TA into the thematic sessions within the ISA. …
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Assessing technologies : global patterns of trust and distrust ; report on one session at the XVIII World Congress of Sociology ; Yokohama, Japan, July 13 - 19, 2014
Moniz, A. Brandão - 2015
(ISA) before. The first steps towards establishing this association were taken in 1948, at the initiative of the Social … Science Department of UNESCO. Its formal foundation was in 1949. The World Congress of Sociology in Japan was hopefully the … beginning of continuous integration of TA into the thematic sessions within the ISA. …
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Alternativen als Programm: Plädoyer für einen Perspektivenwechsel in der Technikfolgenabschätzung
Dobroć, Paulina; Krings, Bettina-Johanna; Schneider, … - In: TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in … 27 (2018) 1, pp. 28-33
Der vorliegende Artikel soll einen Beitrag zu theoretischen Überlegungen einer Technikfolgenabschätzung (TA) der Alternativen leisten. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass TA seit ihrer Entstehung den Anspruch auf die Entwicklung von (technischen) Alternativen erhoben hat, wird hier der Versuch...
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Alternativen als Programm : Plädoyer für einen Perspektivenwechsel in der Technikfolgenabschätzung
Dobroć, Paulina; Krings, Bettina-Johanna; Schneider, … - 2018
Der vorliegende Artikel soll einen Beitrag zu theoretischen Überlegungen einer Technikfolgenabschätzung (TA) der Alternativen leisten. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass TA seit ihrer Entstehung den Anspruch auf die Entwicklung von (technischen) Alternativen erhoben hat, wird hier der Versuch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823237
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The impact of derivatives on spot markets: Evidence from the introduction of bitcoin futures contracts
Augustin, Patrick; Rubtsov, Alexey; Shin, Donghwa - 2022
Cryptocurrencies provide a unique opportunity to identify how derivatives impact spot markets. They are fully fungible, trade across multiple spot exchanges at different prices, and futures contracts were selectively introduced on bitcoin (BTC) exchange rates against the USD in December 2017....
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Imaginary economies: the case of the 3D printer
Schröter, Jens - In: Review of Evolutionary Political Economy 1 (2020) 3, pp. 357-370
In the call for the special issue for the EAEPE Journal, we can find the word “scenario.” The question is if the authors can imagine scenarios in which “potential strategies for the appropriation of existing capitalist infrastructures […] in order to provoke the emergence of...
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New work: New motivation? A comprehensive literature review on the impact of workplace technologies
Schmid, Yvonne; Dowling, Michael - In: Management Review Quarterly 72 (2020) 1, pp. 59-86
The role of work and the characteristics of the workplace have changed greatly in recent decades. Today, new technologies enable an almost seamless interaction between machines and humans and allow teams in different countries and time zones to collaborate effectively. In this paper, we focus on...
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Cloud Computing Based Web Applications. Examples and Considerations on Google Apps Script
Airinei, Dinu - 2017
The ordinary use of the ICT related “cloud” term mostly refers to the use of it for storing common office type files and accessing them with their corresponding remote applications. If considering the operating and processing part, the cloud computing collocation it is more inspired to use....
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Robocalypse Now? Why we Shouldn't Panic about Automation, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
Shackleton, J. R. - 2021
It is claimed that robots, algorithms and artificial intelligence are going to destroy jobs on an unprecedented scale. These developments, unlike past bouts of technical change, threaten rapidly to affect even highly-skilled work and lead to mass unemployment and/or dramatic falls in wages and...
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The Impact of Derivatives on Cash Markets : Evidence From the Introduction of Bitcoin Futures Contracts
Augustin, Patrick - 2020
We exploit a unique feature of cryptocurrency markets to provide new evidence on how derivatives impact cash markets. In December 2017, the CME Group and CBOE Global Markets both introduced futures contracts on bitcoin (BTC) against USD, but not on any other cryptocurrency exchange rate pairs....
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