The Digital Organisation and Society (DOS) Research Centre is an interdisciplinary group of researchers whose work focuses on developing a critical understanding of the implications of digital technologies for work, organisations and society. DOS regularly organises seminars, workshops and mini-conferences details of this can be found in the events page.
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Latest Blog Posts
- The growth of rental proptech: hybridisation and data riskBy Thomas Wainwright What’s the issue? UK homeownership rates peaked in 2003 at 70.9%, before falling to 63.9% in … Continue reading The growth of rental proptech: hybridisation and data risk
- Crafting IT jobs through the Flexibility of Contracting: Opportunities for Female IT ProfessionalsBy Niki Panteli In a recently published study (Panteli and Urquhart, 2022), we explore the job crafting experiences of … Continue reading Crafting IT jobs through the Flexibility of Contracting: Opportunities for Female IT Professionals
Upcoming Events
24 May 2022 11:00-12:30 GMT
China’s Social Credit Systems: Myth, Reality, and Discourse
There is a great deal of controversy and myth surrounding the infamous social credit system (SCS) in China. Commentators in the West often portray the SCS as an omnipresent surveillance system imposed by the Chinese government on its citizens, feeding on their personal data for the purpose of authoritarian control. This Orwellian image of the SCS may reflect the zeitgeist of the age of surveillance capitalism, but how close is it to reality? … Continue reading China’s Social Credit Systems: Myth, Reality, and Discourse