Zvezdan Vukanovic is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of Communication, Arts and Sciences, Canadian University Dubai.

His books, monograph and research papers have been published in Springer and Routledge international publishers as well as in the International Journal of Media Management and Journal of Media Business Studies. Professor Vukanovic is an Executive Board Member of the IMMAA – The International Media Management Academic Association and former Marshall McLuhan post-doctoral fellow in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. He is Editorial Board Member and the Executive Director, Journal of Creative Industries and Cultural Studies, Lisbon, Portugal; Associate Editor for South-East Europe, Media XXI Publishing Company, Lisbon, Portugal; Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of distinguished scholars of the Book Series on Business Innovation and Disruption, Media XXI Publishing Company, Lisbon, Portugal; a Scientific Committee Member of the IMMAA – International Media Management Academic Association, WMEMC – World Media Economics and Management Conference, GCA – Global Communication Association Conference. He is a reviewer for Springer Science + Business Media, Journal of Digital Media & Policy, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, New Media & Society, Management Communication Quarterly, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Media Economics.

Professor Vukanovic’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of

1. impact of quantum computing and exponential technological innovation on global digital economy and specifically digital media and ICT technology, business, industry, economics and entrepreneurship.

2. Digital media (i.e. On-demand video/media, streaming media, locative media, internet media, broadband media, ambient media, augmented media, immersive media) and ICT intermediation in the digital economy, digital platforms economics and digital ecosystem economics

3. Heterodox economics, (i.e. evolutionary economics, econophysics, behavioural economics, Multi/Post – cloud economics, information economics, attention economics, imagination economics, experience economics, internet economics, Multi-Platform economics, algorithmic economics, cyber economics, long tail economics, applications economics, Quantum economics, exponential economics, contactless economics, access/on-demand/interface/interoperable economics, AI Economics, API economics, Intangible economics, Semantic economics, software economics).

4. Application of the Corporate digital ecosystem orchestrator (i.e. Sequential Downstream Proprietary Software Diversification, Inorganic complementary asymmetric digital media and ICT market growth via mergers and acquisitions corporate market portfolio diversification, Multicloud platforms, Massive personalization/customization, Software versioning, Vendor lock-in, Complementors, Digital disintermediation/intermediation, Digital Mobile/Wallet Payment,  Multicloud platforms, Micropayment, long tail and on-demand personalized/customized economics, clusterization, B2B and B2D markets) via CAS – Complex Adaptive Systems and Actor–network theory methodological approach.

5. The application and impact of disruptive digital exponential and quantum converging and diverging technologies (i.e. Machine learning, Quantum computing, Cloud computing, Post cloud computing, Fog computing, Edge computing, Cognitive computing, Cobot industry 5.0, Autonomous Vehicles, drones, 5 G network, Smart grid markets, Smart cities, Wearable technologies, Mobile applications, Telehealth and telemedicine, Gamification, Industrial Internet of Things, Big data analytics).

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