AUTHENTIZOTIC ORGANIZATIONS AND DIGITAL SOCIETIES

Carlos Miguel Ferreira¹, Sandro Serpa²*
¹Prof. Dr., Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences – CICS.NOVA; PORTUGAL, carlosmiguelferreira32@gmail.com
²Prof. Dr., University of the Azores, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Sociology; Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences – CICS.UAc/CICS.NOVA.UAc;
Interdisciplinary Centre for Childhood and Adolescence – NICA – UAc, PORTUGAL, sandro.nf.serpa@uac.pt
*Corresponding Author

Abstract

The digital dimension in social life is unavoidable in its positive and/or negative consequences, with profound effects on the environmental, social and cultural fields. Through a literature review, this paper seeks to reflect, in a thoughtful way, the place of authentizotic organisations as a possible model of organisations as coordinated collective units involved in the materialisation of digital societies that should tend to be inclusive of all citizens and, simultaneously, in the proactive understanding and control of the harmfulness of this materialisation, seeking respect for all by maximising the potential positive effects.

Keywords: authentizotic organisation; digital societies, technological and social innovation.