Widespread concerns about new technologies—whether they be novels, radios, or smartphones—are repeatedly found throughout history. Although tales of past panics are often met with amusement today, ...current concerns routinely engender large research investments and policy debate. What we learn from studying past technological panics, however, is that these investments are often inefficient and ineffective. What causes technological panics to repeatedly reincarnate? And why does research routinely fail to address them? To answer such questions, I examined the network of political, population, and academic factors driving the Sisyphean cycle of technology panics. In this cycle, psychologists are encouraged to spend time investigating new technologies, and how they affect children and young people, to calm a worried population. Their endeavor, however, is rendered ineffective because of the lack of a theoretical baseline; researchers cannot build on what has been learned researching past technologies of concern. Thus, academic study seemingly restarts for each new technology of interest, which slows down the policy interventions necessary to ensure technologies are benefiting society. In this article, I highlight how the Sisyphean cycle of technology panics stymies psychology’s positive role in steering technological change and the pervasive need for improved research and policy approaches to new technologies.
The materiality, aesthetics, logics and processes of digitality have infused the physical space of cities. We can no longer speak of a clear distinction between analogue, carbon-based, offline ...entities and digital, silicon-based, online representations. The relationship between digital technology and the city is a complex, more-than-human one in which the convergence of digital technology and the city can be shown to have expanded not just the space of the city but what the space of the city is. This article asks whether the Situationist International’s psychogeographic walking practices can be modified to research the specificity of the digital city. Through the practices of CODED GEOMETRY, a walking collective based in East London that uses performative strategies to develop a digitally expanded psychogeography, the article considers the following questions: how does it feel to walk the streets of East London when the city has been expanded by technologies that blur the boundary between the physical world and the digital realm, between physical objects and their representations in the digital field as data?
In the wrap-up session, I synthesized insights from the conference presentations along with external references indicated by quotation marks (Reference: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. ...Foresight on new and emerging occupational safety and health risks associated with digitalization by 2025. https://osha.europa.eu/sites/default/files/Foresight_new_OSH_risks_2025_summary.pdf)
In this article, we (1) examine the various forms of support required by older users (75+) of digital technology and (2) provide a concrete, everyday life rationale for why warm experts play such a ...pivotal role in the processes of adopting and using ICT. Although warm experts are usually not older adults themselves, they provide an important mediating view on the technology use among older people that has not been rigorously addressed in previous studies. Thus, in our analysis we examine the younger family members’ views on acting as warm experts to their older family members. The research data consist of 22 extended group interviews (EGI) and observation carried out in Finland. Based on our analysis, we argue that older adults use ICT in very heterogeneous ways and that the roles bestowed upon warm experts can be understood precisely through this heterogeneity.
Digital transformation has undoubtedly become a key enabler of innovation as evidenced by the numerous firms that use digital technologies to manage their innovation processes. This issue is even ...more relevant today when innovation processes have become more open and require greater resources in the different implementation phases to capture and transfer knowledge within and outside the firm's boundaries. This implies additional challenges in managing the increasing amount of knowledge and information flows. Accordingly, digital technologies can be used and implemented to manage open innovation processes through easier access and sharing the knowledge created and transferred. Nevertheless, literature in these fields does not provide a structured view of how and why digital technologies are used to manage innovation processes in an open perspective. This paper aims to bridge this gap by adopting the theoretical lenses of change management to identify the managerial actions at organizational and process level that companies perform to implement digital technologies in their open innovation processes. Accordingly, the paper investigates how and why these managerial actions required for and enabled by digital technologies help firms to develop and nurture open innovation. From an empirical point of view, the exploratory multiple case study analyzes nine firms operating in different industries and varying in size, market share, and organizational structure.
The ongoing digitalization of work is associated with both hopes for increasing participation opportunities for employees and workplace representatives and fears and threats regarding new control ...potentials and possibilities for rationalization of work. Based on the approach that digitalization can be shaped, the article deals with questions of participation possibilities of works councils and employees in the digitalization process on the basis of empirical research results in companies actively pursuing digitalization. Field-specific forms of participation, their scope, quality, as well as the company actorsʼ participation interests are described. In addition, a characteristic interplay of direct and indirect participation is identified, which prevents gross violations of labor interests.
BackgroundRemote delivery of HIV services (often facilitated by digital technology) has increased over recent years, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using scoping methods, we ...synthesise current knowledge about remote HIV healthcare services.MethodsWe systematically searched literature using multiple databases, supplementing this with searches of grey literature. We included papers reporting on empirical studies in high income countries (OECD) of remote HIV healthcare delivery by digital technology including mobile apps, video, SMS and telephone. We extracted data using a standardised tool and analysed data thematically.ResultsA large proportion of studies focus on interventions supporting antiretroviral therapy adherence, often via mobile apps or SMS. There has been a recent uptick in work describing remote routine HIV clinical appointments in the context of COVID-19. There was a dearth of evidence on the impact of remote HIV healthcare services on clinical and patient-reported outcomes, as well as factors shaping access to remote HIV healthcare services.DiscussionThere is an increasingly large body of work investigating remote HIV healthcare services, much of it focusing on adherence support. Less is known on barriers to and facilitators of remote HIV healthcare service provision and access, and how these services impact patient experience and outcomes. Given the enduring change to models of HIV healthcare as a result of COVID-19, we urgently require a robust evidence-base to inform inclusive, equitable and effective service design.
Digital technologies have transformed every aspect of marketing and have brought consumer privacy front and center of research and discourse over the last two decades. Whereas companies and consumers ...have arguably benefited through the availability and use of data made possible by digitalization, consumer privacy‐related concerns raise compelling questions that researchers, companies, and policymakers are addressing. In this review paper, we review privacy related to digital technologies in marketing, highlighting the constantly evolving nature of the field. We provide an overview of the rich contributions made by the articles in the special issue on digital technologies and privacy, and the original insights they provide for researchers and practitioners in four domains—communication, retailing, pricing, and product personalization. We identify and outline future research directions in each of these four domains to expand our understanding of privacy at the intersection of psychology and marketing by motivating new scholarly research and providing actionable insights to managers and policymakers.
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