#books

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
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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
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Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. A Multi-stakeholder Approach

Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. A Multi-stakeholder Approach, edited by Vincent Blok, (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Volume 40, published by Springer, 2022), is a collection that has grown out of the NewHoRRIzon project (2017-2021). This project focused on developing a ‘conceptual and operational basis to fully integrate RRI into European and ... Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. A Multi-stakeholder Approach

Jonathan Hankins

14/06
2023 11mn
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Liberal Innovation In ICT

On Thursday 2 March, the Bassetti Foundation will host an online seminar and book launch (in Italian) with Gabriele Giacomini, author of The Arduous Road to Revolution, Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in the Digital Communication Age (Mimesis International, 2022). In his publication, Giacomini proposes the need for a form of Liberal Innovation within ICT, offering ideas ... Liberal Innovation In ICT

Jonathan Hankins

21/02
2023 7mn
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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
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The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in The Digital Communication Age.

The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in The Digital Communication Age is the latest book from Gabriele Giacomini (Mimesis International, 2022). As the title suggests, Giacomini not only offers an analysis of historical events (predominantly based on revolutions against regimes in Myanmar, Ukraine, Iran, Egypt, Hong Kong and Belarus), but goes on to ... The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in The Digital Communication Age.

Jonathan Hankins

01/09
2022 4mn
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Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future – Book Review

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future. An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies is the latest book from Bernd Carsten Stahl, and part of the Springer Briefs in Research and Governance series (see also this review of Katharina Jarmai’s book in the same collection). Regular readers will know the author’s ... Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future – Book Review

Jonathan Hankins

11/06
2021 6mn
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Responsibility Beyond Growth. A Case For Responsible Stagnation – Book Review.

Responsibility Beyond Growth. A Case For Responsible Stagnation by Stevienna de Saille, Fabien Medvecky, Michiel van Oudheusden, Kevin Albertson, Effie Amanatidou, Timothy Birabi and Mario Pansera has just been released by Bristol University Press. The book opens with a foreword from Richard Owen, in which he offers a succinct overview of the ideas that permeate ... Responsibility Beyond Growth. A Case For Responsible Stagnation – Book Review.

Jonathan Hankins

07/10
2020 4mn
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Responsible Innovation: Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementation, a Book Review

Responsible Innovation: Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementation is a new offering in the SPRINGER BRIEFS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION GOVERNANCE series. Edited by Katharina Jarmai, it is available in paper version or as a free download, and offers a lot of food for thought for anyone interested in responsible innovation approaches and applications within ... Responsible Innovation: Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementation, a Book Review

Jonathan Hankins

15/05
2020 3mn
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Public Engagement in Responsible Research and Innovation. A book by Ilse Marschalek.

A critical reflection from the practitioner’s point of view. Book Review Introduction In the open access publication Public Engagement in Responsible Research and Innovation, Ilse Marschalek investigates the roles that a group of people that she names ‘Public Participation Practitioners’ play in the attempt to transform the relationship between science and society though the adoption ... Public Engagement in Responsible Research and Innovation. A book by Ilse Marschalek.

Jonathan Hankins

11/03
2020 7mn
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The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation

The Bassetti Foundation is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of the International Handbook on Responsible Innovation – A Global Resource, edited by René von Schomberg and our own Jonathan Hankins. The Handbook constitutes a global resource for the fast-growing interdisciplinary research and policy communities addressing the challenge of driving innovation towards socially desirable outcomes. ... The International Handbook on Responsible Innovation

Jonathan Hankins

30/04
2019 8mn
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Proeftuin Italië – Testbed Italy: A book review

Proeftuin Italië is a book written by two Dutch historians, Pepijn Corduwener and Arthur Weststeijn, both of whom are connected to Dutch Universities (Utrecht and Leiden) and share a passion for Italian politics. As the title might suggest it is in Dutch, but as a book on innovation within political systems (and in this particular ... Proeftuin Italië – Testbed Italy: A book review

Jonathan Hankins

22/03
2019 7mn
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