Collection
Special Issue: Big Data
Our society is undergoing a genuine digital transformation that implies “a set of technological, cultural, organizational, social, creative and managerial changes associated with digital technology applications in all aspects of human society” (Stolterman and Fors 2004, 689). According to McDonald and Rowsell-Jones (2012), “the digital transformation goes beyond the simple adoption of new technologies and allows, on one side, to provide services, goods and experiences, and on the other side, to find, to process and to make accessible large quantities of contents, creating pervasive new connections between people, places and things”. Indeed, this “great digital transformation” is shaping a new society—a “digital market society”, in which all previous social, economic, and political dimensions of life have changed.
As with any revolution, the emergence of the datasphere society generates important challenges growing both at the level of the law and economics theory of institutions and at level of policy design. Studying these main challenges is what the papers gathered in this special issue aim at doing. Most of the papers were presented during a workshop organized in Rome, on December 3, 2018, and sponsored by the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM, Authority for Communications Guarantees) which is the Italian regulatory authority for the communication industries.
Editors
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Alain Marciano
Alain Marciano is currently professor of Economics at the University of Montpellier, and scientific director of Montpellier Research in Economics. An economic historian, he is especially interested in law and economics. Email: alain.marciano@umontpellier.fr
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Giovanni Battista Ramello
Giovanni Battista Ramello is a professor of Industrial Economics at the University of Eastern Piedmont. His research activities and interests include industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, and law and economics. Email: giovannibattista.ramello@unito.it
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Antonio Nicita
Lumsa University, Roma, Italy
