Knowledge and digital technology / Johannes Glückler, Robert Panitz, editors

Includes index

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Technology, Governance and Markets -- Chapter 2. The promise and prospects of blockchain-based decentralized business models -- Chapter 3. Rendering value from urban digital geographies: Innovation, markets and slow AI -- Chapter 4. Personal AI to maximize the value of personal data while defending human rights and democracy -- Chapter 5. Assembling the geographic information market in the United States -- Chapter 6. Big data without big brothers: The potential of gentle rule-enforcement -- Part II: Technology, Learning and Decision-Making -- Chapter 7. On the need to understand human behavior to do analytics of behavior -- Chapter 8. Boosting consumers: Algorithm-supported decision-making under uncertainty to (learn to) navigate algorithm-based decision environments -- Chapter 9. Orientation to the use of care robots in care services: The encounter of knowledge and technology -- Chapter 10. The datafication of knowledge production and consequences for the pursuit of social justice -- Part III: Entrepreneurship, Digital Labor and Civic Engagement -- Chapter 11. Europe's scaleup geography and the role of access to talent -- Chapter 12. The relational spaces of digital labour -- Chapter 13. Thinking about cyborg activism -- Chapter 14. Data-based frictions in civic action: Trust, technology and participation

This open access book explores the multifaceted interplay of technology, knowledge, and place. While digital technology is increasingly influencing our way of knowing, conversely it is itself the consequence of human creativity and local social interaction. Part I analyzes how digital technologies transform markets through artificial intelligence and decentralized blockchain models. Its contributions discuss novel governance mechanisms, including the responsible use and analysis of big data. Part II illustrates various ways in which technology supports humanity, be it algorithms supporting complex decision-making processes or the use of robotics in care services. The chapters highlight that technology's efficiency and potential rely on social norms and human capital. Finally, Part III shows that digitization is generating vibrant entrepreneurship, reflected in geographically clustered urban scale-up economies, as well as opening up new ways for people to connect with one another, organize civic engagement and enable new forms of labor. The book offers theoretical reflections as well as empirical cases from the United States, Canada, Japan, South Africa, and Europe. This volume provides a valuable read for scholars, students and professionals in the fields of knowledge creation, technology and governance