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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
wiley   +1 more source

What entrepreneurial decisions enable the breeding of digital platform unicorns?

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Digital platforms have revolutionized business sectors; however, despite their significant success, platform unicorns remain rare. While extensive research exists on digital platform growth, it is uncertain what entrepreneurial decisions achieve unicorn status.
Sea Matilda Bez, Isabel Narbón‐Perpiñá, Asta Pundziene, Rima Sermontyte‐Baniule   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmolocalism Against Platform Capitalism: Evidence From Ridesharing

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
The rise of digital commons has expanded shared resources and addressed some challenges of traditional commons. However, this expansion has created new boundaries, forming a complex paradigm that challenges platform capitalism and demands alternative ...
Yosuke Uchiyama
doaj   +1 more source

Wanna Play? Dries Verhoeven and the Limits of Non-Professional Performance [PDF]

, 2015
In October 2014, Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer (HAU)—one of Germany’s most influential performance venues, programming and often co-producing work by artists such as Rimini Protokoll, Jérôme Bel, Meg Stuart and Gob Squad—opened its new season with a festival
Bachmann, Michael
core  

ICIRCASSIA DIGITAL CAPITALISM AND NEW TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES

Journal of Caucasian Studies, 2015
Basta ulusal kimlik ve tarih konularina odaklananlar olmak uzere, internette sayisi giderek artan Cerkeslerle ilgili materyaller, bir anlamda siber alemde Cerkesya’nin sinirlarinin yeniden cizilmesi olarak da degerlendirilebilir. Bu makalede ‘e-Cerkesya’ (‘iCircassia’) terimini, genel olarak anavatan ve diasporadan olustugu kabul edilen klasik Cerkes ...
openaire   +4 more sources

(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca, Vitor Rocio, Antonio Cunha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by the activities of users. This dynamic set of relations is most evident during moments of disruption, in which platform politics and values come under debate.
Sean Ward, Jenny L. Davis, Adrian Mackenzie, Paul K. Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Venture Capital Practices in Saudi Arabia: The Views of Investors

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how venture capital (VC) investors in Saudi Arabia evaluate, negotiate, and support entrepreneurial ventures in a rapidly developing yet institutionally young setting. Drawing on 21 semi‐structured interviews with 24 investors, it offers rare insight into VC practices in the Middle East.
Tibah al‐Harbi, Renzo Cordina, David M. Power   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confronting Demonic Autonomy in Digital Capitalism: Reconstructing Tillich’s Religious Socialism as a Post-Secular Public Theology

Religions
In an age in which the post-secular condition and digital capitalism are increasingly interwoven, the question of what role religion ought to play in the public sphere—and how it might regain critical and constructive force amid deepening crises of ...
Li Tian, Shangwen Dong
doaj   +1 more source