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New paper: Super-appification: Conglomeration in the global digital economy

‘Super apps’ are on the rise. This study explores the characteristics, origins, and manifestations of these apps worldwide, presenting the concept of ‘super-appification’ to describe processes of conglomeration in the global digital economy. Super apps aim to become deeply integrated into people’s everyday lives, capturing and monetising essential activities. By analysing 41 super apps, we identify four distinct types of ‘super-app constellations’, showcasing different patterns and dynamics of conglomeration: ‘Swiss-Army Knife’ apps that consolidate services in one app, ‘Family’ apps that expand through subsidiaries, and ‘Host’ and ‘Hub’-style apps that leverage external developers. This typology offers a comprehensive understanding of the conglomeration patterns underpinning the rise of super apps, involving corporate, development and international expansion strategies. Ultimately, super-appification represents an intensified form of ‘appification’, as these apps increasingly pervade and commodify various aspects of everyday life, such as payment, insurance, grocery delivery, mobility and travel, with significant sociopolitical implications.

Mon 15 Jan 2024, 15:11

New paper: The De-Perimeterisation of Information Security: the Jericho Forum, Zero Trust, and narrativity

New paper: The De-Perimeterisation of Information Security: the Jericho Forum, Zero Trust, and narrativity

CIM academics Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio have published their latest paper on their work from the ‘Scaling Trust’ UKRI project. They examine processes of conceptual change in the recent history of the field, focusing in particular on the efforts of the Jericho Forum pressure group to ‘de-perimeterise’ security thinking. The article is open access in Social Studies of Science:
doi.org/10.1177/03063127231221107

Fri 12 Jan 2024, 14:48

Alternative futures for digital health - magazine article

Here is a commentary from Meg Davis and co-authors for the somewhat glossy publication, Health: A Political Choice – From Fragmentation to Integration: https://bit.ly/hapc23

The magazine will be published at the World Health Summit, in Berlin, 15–17 October.


Meg's article is "Alternative Futures for Digital Health"

Tue 19 Dec 2023, 11:08 | Tags: publication

Horizon Europe Pump Priming Funding For Collaboration between UK and EU Partners 2024 - £10K

This has a quick turnaround timeframe deadline 17 Jan 2024 and only if funding is still available, a second deadline will be on the 21st Feb 2024. The call is to develop collaboration activity between the UK and EU Associated Countries for Pillar 2 proposals, awards are up to £10K.

The aim of the call is to develop collaborative activity between UK and EU/Associated Countries’ entities in Pillar 2 of Horizon Europe. Applicants will need to identify a specific upcoming call and topic in this Pillar as the focus of their proposed collaboration with the goal of submitting an application to that upcoming call building on this pump priming funding.

Award activity and use of funds must conclude with an interim report by the deadline of the Horizon Europe call being applied to. Awards will be required to provide further reporting on their award, including in relation to the outcome of their application to Horizon Europe.

Funding may be used to support costs for concept or proof of market work and proposal development, costs of meetings, travel and subsistence, research/clerical assistance (based in the UK or internationally), due diligence work on partners, costs towards child or parent care, and contributions towards support services such as proposal writing.

Any questions please contact Lelia Buretia, EU research development Office: lelia.buretia@warwick.ac.uk

Fri 15 Dec 2023, 11:57 | Tags: funding

New paper: European Histories, Australian Anxieties

Fri 15 Dec 2023, 11:07

Seeing Like a Model: Exploring and Understanding Generative AI Methods

Drs. Janna Joceli Omena and Michael Castelle participated in the 3-day conference “Generative Methods — AI as Collaborator and Companion in the Social Sciences and Humanities” held at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, which aimed to explore the multifaceted impact of generative AI as both instruments and objects of research.

 

Mon 11 Dec 2023, 16:40

Job opening: Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Reader

We are excited to say that we are starting a new phase of growth. As we plan for the future, we will be making multiple new appointments for an Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Reader in one or more of the following fields:

  1. AI and society, including ethics and governance
  2. digital media and/or digital methods
  3. environment, ecology and sustainability
  4. digital health and society.

See full job description and application here

Thu 23 Nov 2023, 16:25

Research Talk: "Staying with the Trouble: Applying Feminism to Visualization Research" by Derya Akbaba, Linköping University, 29 November 2023, 3:00-4:30, MS0.5 Zeeman Building

Join us for an invited talk by Derya Akbaba, Linköping University "Staying with the Trouble: Applying Feminism to Visualization Research" at MS0.5 Zeeman Building on 29th November 2023, 3:00-4:30.

Derya will talk about her research that builds on extant work at the intersection of feminism and visualization by engaging with feminist theories to further trouble common assumptions within visualization research. Click through the title for further details.

Thu 26 Oct 2023, 15:15

"Airing Aeropolis" -- Book launch by Nerea Calvillo Gonzalez and colleagues, 1st November 2023 at H0.03

A poster for Airing Aeropolis book launch. Taking place 1 November 2023 2:30pm at H0.03 at University of Warwick
Join us to celebrate the launch of Nerea Calvillo Gonzalez’s new book, Aeropolis: Queering air in toxicpolluted worldsLink opens in a new window  (Columbia U Press). Aeropolis offers a speculative and interdisciplinary framework to reorient common understandings of air and air pollution as matter “out there.
 
The event will take place on Wednesday, 1st November 2023, 2:30 - 3:30 at room H0.03 (Humanities Building at the main Warwick campus, directionsLink opens in a new window)
Thu 26 Oct 2023, 15:03

Talk by Michael Dieter: "Resonate/ESRC Festival of Social Science: What are Super Apps?" , 26 October 2023

CIM researcher Michael Dieter (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/michael-dieter/Link opens in a new window) will present his ongoing work on super apps at Resonate/ESRC Festival of Social Science. The talk will take place on Thursday, 26 October 2023, 18:30-21:00 at 1 Mill Street, Lemington Spa, CV31 1ES

Wed 25 Oct 2023, 16:00

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