Technology is often highlighted in popular discourse as a causal factor significantly increasing sex trafficking. However, there paucity of robust empirical evidence on trafficking and the extent to which technology facilitates it. This has not prevented proliferation beliefs that essential for disrupting or even ending Big data analytics anti-trafficking software are used this context produce ...

In times of organizational change leaders often tell stories that justify publicly the directions in which organizations move. Such stories are always political in nature and often reflect the motives of the storyteller. We observe how leaders in high-tech organizations use the story of technological determinism in organizational settings as a discursive practice through which they invoke the “...

tech-noir cinema emerged as the combination of noir film and science-fiction genre in 1980s. noir film, which was one of the main currents of american cinema in 1940s, was influenced by detective fiction of american literature and expressionist cinema of germany in plot and form respectively. in 1970s and 1980s, because of artistic and social currents, there was a ground to return to noir; so n...

Having competitive processes has become as important (if not more) as having competitive products. Simply designing good products is not enough to gain competitive edge. Business processes have grown complex and fragmented in an ad-hoc manner. They span several departments and are very inefficient. Often the work being performed conflicts with the organizations’ goals and strategic objectives. ...

During the pandemic, companies were collapsing like sand. The fate of different industries slipped despite efforts owners and CEO. Tech industry was one few that thrived during pandemic as every business gradually moving on to digital platform. Even in tech industry, only big already had a massive footprint before Apple, Google, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, bloomed. Many medium-sized small-sized ...

This article studies contemporary digital hypervigilance and the ways through which citizens' sensitive data are collected analyzed for different purposes, contextualizing it in sharp eyes system, originated China. Specific objectives: i) to describe technological forms of surveillance based on personal behavioral generated individuals' online communications; ii) understand how States private o...