Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet: The Sociology of Race and Racism in the Digital Society:
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The study of race and racism in the digital society must produce theoretically distinct and robust formulations of Internet technologies as key characteristics of the political economy as mentioned in this paper, and the authors of this paper are among the pioneers in this direction.Abstract:
The study of race and racism in the digital society must produce theoretically distinct and robust formulations of Internet technologies as key characteristics of the political economy. The author ...read more
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Toward a Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: A Call for Research on Inequalities and Structural Change:
Kelly Joyce,Laurel Smith-Doerr,Sharla Alegria,Susan E. Bell,Taylor M. Cruz,Steve G. Hoffman,Safiya Umoja Noble,Benjamin Shestakofsky +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline a research agenda for a sociology of artificial intelligence (AI) and review two areas in which sociological theories and methods have made significant contributions to AI research.
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Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics
Rachel Kuo,Alice E. Marwick +1 more
Abstract: This essay advocates a critical approach to disinformation research that is grounded in history, culture, and politics, and centers questions of power and inequality. In the United States, identity, particularly race, plays a key role in the messages and strategies of disinformation producers and who disinformation and misinformation resonates with. Expanding what “counts” as disinformation demonstrates that disinformation is a primary media strategy that has been used in the U.S. to reproduce and reinforce white supremacy and hierarchies of power at the expense of populations that lack social, cultural, political, or economic power.
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“Reach the right people”: The politics of “interests” in Facebook’s classification system for ad targeting:
TL;DR: It is argued that this “big data-driven” classification system should be read as political: it articulates a stance not only on what issues are or are not important in the U.S. public sphere, but also on who is considered a significant enough public to be adequately accounted for.
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The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading?
Nick Couldry,Ulises A. Mejias +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the emergence of a decolonial turn in critical technology and data studies that analyzes the transformation of society through data extraction for profit, and summarize the most important advantages of the deco-colonial turn as a transhistorical tool to understand the continuities between colonialism and capitalism.
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The promise of access: Technology, inequality, and the political economy of hope: By daniel greene, cambridge, MA: MIT press, 2021. 272 pages. Price: $30.00. ISBN: 9780262542333
TL;DR: Shedding fears of Marxist analysis, historians and sociologists of the Internet have recently centered capitalism, and named it as such, and made a collective case that the Internet enables n...
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Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems
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