Technology is an essential component of every modern society. Furthermore, new technological possibilities play a key role as catalysts and drivers of far-reaching socio-economic change. When seeking to analyze and reconstruct such transformations, such as in the context of case studies, for...

Processes of socio-technical change that are triggered by new technological opportunities do not occur as radical fractures over short periods of time, subsequently leading to new periods of technological, institutional and organizational continuity. What appears - after ten, twenty, or thirty...

Since the late 1990s, the music industry has been undergoing a period of significant and crisis-ridden changes. This period was launched and driven forward by a new set of technologies:digitalization, data compression and the Internet. This paper analyzes the repercussions of this new...

Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sectoral change. The concept is based on two interrelated influencing factors. The first is the...

The paper examines two main questions: First, how are economic sectors changing under the influence of new technological opportunities that bear an enormous potential for development and deployment for them? And second, how might this kind of sectoral transformation be analyzed? To pursue these...

For some years, the field of research on social movements has undergone fundamental changes. This is due above all to the internet and social media platforms that have become an integral part of the emergence, organization and mobilization of protest. This article examines the role which these...

The leading Internet groups, with their extensively networked platforms, have become the key players in the design and regulatory framing of the Internet in the course of the 2010s. This paper examines the mechanisms by which they fulfil their role as structurebuilding, rule-making and...

The music industry was the first media sector to be massively affected by digitization and the internet. In this paper, the strongly technology-driven transformation of the sector is first reconstructed, divided into distinguishable development phases and condensed into characteristic...

1. The transformative capacity of new technologies: an introduction -- 2. Technology and sectors -- 3. Types of innovation and sociotechnical transformation -- 4. New technologies and their transformative capacity -- 5. New technologies and sectoral adaptability -- 6. New technologies and...