digital-capitalism

Argues that the shift from a hegemonic, single-state dominated global system to a multi-polar one is a regular feature in the pulsating global system developmental process and proposes scenarios for its likely future development, highlighting the core differences that mark digital technologies in contrast to previous technologies in the unfolding of this process.

Provides a short — but long-term - oveview of the historical trajectories and processes that led to modern-day digitalization. The second part discusses some of the economic, social, and cultural implications of these processes for today.

Focuses on impacts of informationalization and digitalization as transformative processes requiring new sets of literacies, competences, and skills for active participation in and analysis of modern societies.

Die steigenden Kompetenzanforderungen in professionellen Kontexten Sozialer Berufe stellt auch eine zunehmende Herausforderungen an …

Develops a model of world system development as a complex adaptive social system. The model is then empirically tested focusing on the two core dimensions, the economic and political developmental processes.