#reviews

Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review

The e-book Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity is one of the outcomes of A Just Transition to the Circular Economy (JUST2CE). This European Union Horizon 2020 funded project concluded this summer (2024), its aim being to understand the implications of the transition to a circular economy on the environment, economy ... Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review

Jonathan Hankins

08/11
2024 7mn
lettura

Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

As regular readers will know, the Bassetti Foundation has long been raising questions around relationships between food, its procurement choices and responsible innovation thinking, an overview of which can be found here. In this, the third review of Volume 10 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation (2023), we take a look at four articles that ... Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

Jonathan Hankins

26/07
2024 5mn
lettura

Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives

Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives from Giovanna Mascheroni and Andra Siibak is dedicated to describing and critiquing practices of datafication that sustain what Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. Datafication is described as both an outcome and an intensifier of deep mediatization: an outcome, as almost all social action and interaction is ... Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives

Redazione FGB

08/05
2024 5mn
lettura

Journal of Responsible Innovation: Institutionalising Responsible Innovation

As regular readers will know, in 2023 the Journal of Responsible Innovation changed format. Volume 10 was not divided into three issues as those previous, but contributions were added throughout the year. The volume featured several thematic collections, the first of which Engagement of Publics was reviewed here. In this post we take a look ... Journal of Responsible Innovation: Institutionalising Responsible Innovation

Jonathan Hankins

29/03
2024 5mn
lettura

Glocalism. Ten Years of Culture, Politics and Innovation

To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, Piero Bassetti (President of the Bassetti Foundation and Globus and Locus) and Davide Cadeddu (Editor in Chief of Glocalism) have edited an open access collection of articles for publication through Milan University Press. In the editorial that precedes this collection, Bassetti, Cadeddu ... Glocalism. Ten Years of Culture, Politics and Innovation

Redazione FGB

13/03
2024 5mn
lettura

Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Compliance by Design

Between 11 – 12 January I attended the Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Compliance by Design Conference held in Utrecht, Netherlands. The conference was hosted by the Chain Project, a Dutch Research Council (NWO) funded initiative that focuses on blockchain in the network society. From the project website: Governments are developing blockchain ... Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Compliance by Design

Jonathan Hankins

20/02
2024 10mn
lettura

Book Review. Digital Ageism: how it operates and approaches to tackling it

Digital Ageism: How it operates and approaches to tackling it, is publication number 56 in the Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture series. Edited by Andrea Rosales, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol and Jakob Svensson, the book aims to create awareness about how ageism operates in society, while contributing to a broad discussion about digital ageism. This ... Book Review. Digital Ageism: how it operates and approaches to tackling it

Jonathan Hankins

20/11
2023 3mn
lettura

Engagement of Publics in the JRI

Volume 10 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation remains ‘in progress’ and is being constantly updated. This volume has articles gathered within collections, the largest of which may be of particular interest to Foundation followers as it addressees Engagement of Publics (one of our primary interests). The collection currently (October 2023) features five research articles ... Engagement of Publics in the JRI

Jonathan Hankins

18/10
2023 6mn
lettura

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 3

This issue contains six research articles, opening with Challenges in the implementation of responsible researchand innovation across Horizon 2020 from Raúl Tabarés, Anne Loeber, Mika Nieminen, Michael J. Bernstein,Erich Griessler, Vincent Blok, Joshua Cohen, Helmut Hönigmayer, Ulrike Wunderle and Elisabeth Frankus. Based on policy document analysis as a series of interviews carried out as part ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 3

Jonathan Hankins

05/04
2023 7mn
lettura

Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 2

As regular readers might imagine, Issue 2 opens with Erik Fisher‘s Editorial, in this case Responding to difference in and for RI. Fisher identifies the theme of responding to difference in and for responsible innovation as being salient to this issue, described as ‘a rich selection of scholarly treatments of difference in the framings, strategies, ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 2

Jonathan Hankins

31/01
2023 7mn
lettura

Responsible Innovation in Health. A book review.

Responsible Innovation in Health. Concepts and Tools for Sustainable Impact draws on RRI literature and approaches to develop the concept of Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) and a toolbox for its implementation. It is free to download here and here (under OUTCOMES). The publication grows out of the authors’ work in the In Fieri Research ... Responsible Innovation in Health. A book review.

Jonathan Hankins

24/10
2022 8mn
lettura

Volume 9, Issue 1 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation Reviewed

Volume 9 opens with Erik Fisher’s Editorial Engaging with societal challenges in responsible innovation, in which the Editor in Chief describes how the issue considers some of the ways in which grand societal challenges have been invoked, framed, and addressed by scientific researchers, university administrators, global actors, and the responsible research and innovation (RRI) community ... Volume 9, Issue 1 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation Reviewed

Jonathan Hankins

15/09
2022 9mn
lettura