Skills, creativity and innovation in the digital platform era : analyzing the new reality of professions and entrepreneurship / Seppo Poutanen and Anne Kovalainen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Changing Relationship between Technology and Professions -- Algorithms Changing the World3. Introducing Platforms as New Economic Mode -- Reconfigurations of Professions and Professionalism -- Platformized Work, Entrepreneurship, and Professions -- Social Media Influencer as a New Platform Profession -- Platformization of Professions and Expertise -- Towards Platformization as a New Social Order.

Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era: Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship brings together two important areas: the separate research topics of professions, platforms, and entrepreneurship, and the various dimensions of what platformization means to work and to professions in contemporary societies. One of the most noteworthy global aspects in current societies is the intensifying presence of technology, to the extent that we can talk about the omnipotence of technologies, a kind of technological imperative that prevails in societies. This new type of technological imperative emerges in the working lives of practicing professionals from medical doctors to lawyers and from teachers to preachers. Platforms have become a powerful actor as enablers and reorganizers of work, creating new types of inequalities but also expanding the market relations for new professions such as social influencers. How do platforms govern and shape work and lead to new questions concerning organizing of work and professions? These are few of the key questions Poutanen and Kovalainen explore in this profound and insightful book.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.