Book: Robokratie – Silicon Valley, Transhumanismus und Singularität

2015-07-25 / 0 comments

Einen aufschlussreichen Einblick in die Gesellschaftsutopien der global agierenden Technikeliten bietet die Monographie des Soziologen und kritischen Publizisten Thomas Wagner: Robokratie – Goggle, Silicon Valley und der Mensch als Auslaufmodell (2015 / PappyRossa Verlag). Mittels technisch induzierter Disruptionen soll die Menschheit in den Zustand einer transhumanistischen Verfassung geführt werden, in der Technologie dazu verwandt wird…

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Rechte- & Lizenzmanagement im Rundfunk – Materialsammlung

2015-07-19 / 0 comments

Das folgende Material stammt aus: Backhaus, Martin (2008). IT-Gestütztes Rechte- & Lizenzmanagement im Rundfunk. Berlin: Logos Verlag. [Online] IT-Systemlandschaft im RF       Archivsysteme & -datenbanken: DRA – Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv   Weiterführende Literatur: Stähler, Patrick (2002). Geschäftsmodelle in der digitalen Ökonomie: Merkmale, Strategien und Auswirkungen. St. Gallen: EUL Verlag. [Online]

Becker Friedman Institute – Research Repository

2015-07-18 / 0 comments

Lots of working papers on economic issues as seen from the Chicago School of Economics perspective: Becker Friedmann Institute – Research Repository

Dynamics of the Media Industry

2015-07-17 / 0 comments

On request from DG CONNECT, IPTS launched in 2009 a research program on the “Statistical, ecosystems and competitiveness analysis of the Media and Content Industries”. The program created a set of 10 studies, numerous workshops and a Conference that pursue three objectives: To offer a quantitative statistical approach to the Media and Content Industries, including their extension or blurring…

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International Institute of Communication

2015-07-17 / 0 comments

Think Tank? Lobby Organization? Established in 1969, the IIC is an independent, global, not for profit policy forum for the converging telecoms, media and technology industries. Membership offers a discussion framework and professional network for senior level strategists working at the intersection of business and public policy. We provide a neutral platform on which controversial…

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What is M2M / IoT / IoE?

2015-07-17 / 0 comments

M2M = “[…] modules, sensors, chipsets and SIMs using newtworked resources to connect machines to remote application platforms ” (Tavares 2014, p. 26). Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is used for automated data transmission and measurement between mechanical or electronic devices. The key components of an M2M system are: Field-deployed wireless devices with embedded sensors or RFID-Wireless…

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Communication and the Transformation of Economics

2015-07-16 / 0 comments

Robert E. Babe’s (1995) compilation of essays provides a profound critique of the reductionist conception of information and communication in neoclassical economics. Here are some outtakes: [D]ue to perfunctory and ill-conceived conceptions of information and communication, maintream economics promotes and “justifies” policies (summarized in this book as “neoconservative policy agenda”) that increase disparities […]. (ibid.,…

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Book: The Economics of Digitization

2015-07-15 / 0 comments

The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series Edited by Shane Greenstein, Professor and Kellogg Chair of Information Technology, Northwestern University, US, Avi Goldfarb, Professor of Marketing, University of Toronto, Canada and Catherine Tucker, Mark Hyman Jr. Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management, US This authoritative collection,…

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Google Ngram Viewer

2015-07-15 / 0 comments

Google Ngrams: Google Books Service to analyze arbitrary combinations of words against a subset of the Google Books corpus created for this application. Read a nice (german) description of how to use this service for scientific purposes @ Google Ngram Viewer Example: postal service, telecommunication, internet, email, www  

The Economics of Shared Data Plans

2015-07-12 / 0 comments

In this paper, we introduce a simple analytical framework to model the tradeoffs between choosing a shared data plan and individual data plans for different devices from a consumer perspective. In particular, we show that even in this simplified setting, this choice is non-trivial for a consumer, with a complex dependency on users’ psychology of…

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