Digital Society – Exploring critical junctures and breakages

The Digital Society project addresses the various facets of digitalised society and economy, new forms of digitalised work and its organising in society. The digitised and digitalised modes of operation such as platforms cut across all sectors in economy and society. The contemporary alignments of platformization in society and economy call for new analyses and narratives. The project especially analyses breakages, junctures and continuities, new forms and new instabilities of the expertise and expert work in post-pandemic world, the transformation of knowledge and its effects to expertise, and compares various aspects of digital ecosystems, platforms and modes of platform work. The platformization and its forms, processes, practices and consequences is of particular interest.

Digital Society is internationally networked project with comparative data gathering, international collaboration and publishing. The project provides analytical interdisciplinary answers with a strong future orientation to the questions of how digitalisation is changing societies through all the new arrangements. Digital Society explores key current and future economic and societal issues in the era of data economy and platform economy and asks questions such as: