Digital ecologies with Attila Márton

What society needs to be in place in order for what we observe to be not only acceptable but also desirable?

I sit down with Attila Márton. We talk about what captures his attention when he is not teaching at the Copenhagen Business School or researching digitalization of core social phenomena. He shares what we can learn from ecological thinking, shares some ecological perspectives, discusses platforms as an organisational form and highlights some guiding principles a business, start up or individual could follow or be aware of in terms of digitalization.

Attila Márton is a Digital Ecologist. His research focuses on propelling ecosystemic thinking to make digitalization serve humanity. To this effect, he is currently exploring the co-evolutionary dynamics between platforms and their respective ecosystems, the political ecology of digital labour and AI, the sociology of digital knowledge and forgetting, and the re-decentralization of the Internet.

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00:47 Meet Attila Marton

08:07 Shares insights into his writing process 

12:05 Attila’s selected publications: Digital, Information, Platforms and New 

13:22 Discussing Platforms and Sharing Platforms

16:19 Platforms as an organisational form: changing how we are used to organising

18:10 Social media and labour platforms

19:18 Ecologies, a mind set 

27:15 How do ‘ecological systems’ self regulate and what can we learn 

28:48 First principles thinking

29:00 Shares an example, it was not the one I was thinking of

31:04 Discussing resilient and robust, within the system itself 

33:20 Variety and redundancy 

38:25 From an ecological perspective: AI 

45:31 Asked to share one thing he would like us to know