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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:02:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Artificial intelligence and social action: A techno-sociological contextualization</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311219</link>
      <description>Title: Artificial intelligence and social action: A techno-sociological contextualization
Authors: Schrape, Jan-Felix
Abstract: This discussion paper contextualizes contemporary forms of artificial intelligence (AI) within the broader relationship between technology and society, and it compiles essential insights from the sociology of technology for interdisciplinary discourse. The paper begins with a concise overview of the history of artificial intelligence and situates AI within the co-evolution of technology and society. It then presents key perspectives on the interaction and distributed agency between humans and technology, identifying five fundamental levels of agency and relating these levels to the interplay of AI and social action. Throughout these considerations, it becomes evident that the expectations of human-technology interaction, as well as the concepts of intelligent technology, are continually evolving and contingent upon social change. Consequently, the development and diffusion of AI should not be viewed as a primarily technology-driven phenomenon but rather as a genuine socio-technological transformation process.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Application potential and acceptance of automated facial recognition in German retail stores</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/323955</link>
      <description>Title: Application potential and acceptance of automated facial recognition in German retail stores
Authors: Seeger, Lukas; Burr, Wolfgang
Abstract: The use of automated facial recognition in retail offers a wide range of potential for increasing efficiency, improving service quality and optimising customer targeting. This article, based on an empirical survey of 101 participants, examines factors that determine the acceptance and use of facial recognition technology among retail customers in Germany. However, the results show a strong negative influence of data protection and security issues on the willingness to adopt facial recognition technology among customers of German retailers. This article broadens the understanding of the acceptance and willingness to use digital technologies in public places going hand in hand with problems regarding privacy and security. The results of our study confirm the TAM model and the correlations it contains between the perceived usefulness, the perceived ease of use and the intention to use. The study also confirms the Technology Acceptance Model formulated by Davis in the special context of German retail business. The TAM model is extended in this paper by two new factors, privacy and security as mediators between privacy concerns and intention to use.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Industry platforms: A new mode of coordination in the economy</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/280954</link>
      <description>Title: Industry platforms: A new mode of coordination in the economy
Authors: Dolata, Ulrich
Abstract: This discussion paper is a plea for an urgently needed shift in perspective: from the concentration of social science research on the ubiquitous platforms of the consumption- and communication-based internet to the investigation of the platform-oriented reorganization of industrial distribution, production and innovation processes, which has so far received far less attention. The paper focuses on two questions. Firstly, what distinguishes industrial platforms from the platforms that characterize the consumption- and- communication-based internet? Can typical peculiarities and overarching characteristics of platform-based forms of work and organization in industry be identified? And secondly, do platforms represent an independent form of organization and coordination of industrial market, production and innovation processes that is substantially different from organized networks? The paper undertakes an empirical mapping and classification of the little explored field of industrial platforms and discusses from a theoretical-conceptual perspective why platforms should be conceived of as a sui generis form of organization whose dominant mode of coordination can be described as rule-based curation.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The sociotechnical constitution of fields: Integrating technology into the conceptualization of organizational fields</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307142</link>
      <description>Title: The sociotechnical constitution of fields: Integrating technology into the conceptualization of organizational fields
Authors: Dolata, Ulrich
Abstract: Technology is an essential component of every modern society. Furthermore, new technological possibilities play a key role as catalysts and drivers of far-reaching socio-economic change. When seeking to analyze and reconstruct such transformations, such as in the context of case studies, for example, researchers often use institutionalistic field concepts as heuristic and general frameworks. This is surprising, since technology, as an important engine of change, is virtually absent from such field concepts. This paper discusses the role of technology in the structuring, organization, and transformation of fields. It explains how technology can be integrated into the conceptual framework of organizational fields and why the latter should be understood and analyzed as sociotechnical units.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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