RE-ENGINEERING SOCIETY: LEGAL, INSTITUTIONAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Abstract
Digital transformation is a multifaceted process that reconfigures social, economic, institutional, and legal structures through the diffusion of information and communication technologies.
This paper examines digital transformation as a process of societal re-engineering by integrating three analytical lenses: legal and regulatory frameworks, institutional and governance change, and technological foundations and socio-economic outcomes. Drawing on established scholarship in surveillance capitalism, network society theory, and economic analyses of digital technologies, as well as contemporary regulatory developments (notably the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the EU Artificial Intelligence Act), the study maps how legal norms, institutional capacities, and core technologies interact producing novel risks and opportunities.
The analysis emphasizes tensions between innovation and rights protection, the necessity of interoperability and institutional redesign for public sector digitalization, and the distributional effects of automation and platformization on labor and markets. The paper concludes with policy recommendations for balanced regulatory design, capacity building in public institutions, and ethical governance mechanisms to steer digital transformation toward social resilience and democratic accountability.
This paper examines digital transformation as a process of societal re-engineering by integrating three analytical lenses: legal and regulatory frameworks, institutional and governance change, and technological foundations and socio-economic outcomes. Drawing on established scholarship in surveillance capitalism, network society theory, and economic analyses of digital technologies, as well as contemporary regulatory developments (notably the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the EU Artificial Intelligence Act), the study maps how legal norms, institutional capacities, and core technologies interact producing novel risks and opportunities.
The analysis emphasizes tensions between innovation and rights protection, the necessity of interoperability and institutional redesign for public sector digitalization, and the distributional effects of automation and platformization on labor and markets. The paper concludes with policy recommendations for balanced regulatory design, capacity building in public institutions, and ethical governance mechanisms to steer digital transformation toward social resilience and democratic accountability.
Keywords
Societal re-engineering
legald and regulatory frameworks
Institutional Governance
Emergic Technologies and Public Policy.
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