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View article: Repair and redress: A research program for algorithmic futures
Repair and redress: A research program for algorithmic futures Open
Fairness initiatives have dominated efforts to reduce the social harms caused by algorithms in society. To date, those approaches have proven inadequate. We thus trouble the fairness paradigm, suggesting a reorientation towards repair and …
View article: Organizational and Institutional Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Organizational and Institutional Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
This issue of American Behavioral Scientist deals with the various ways in which different kinds of organizations cope with the manifold challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, these articles map the challenges and opp…
View article: COVID Compatibility and Risk Negotiation in Online Dating during the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID Compatibility and Risk Negotiation in Online Dating during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
We interviewed 31 individuals about their online dating life and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use literature on risk and health behaviors to generate four frames for dealing with risk associated with COVID-19 while dating: 1)…
View article: Algorithmic reparation
Algorithmic reparation Open
Machine learning algorithms pervade contemporary society. They are integral to social institutions, inform processes of governance, and animate the mundane technologies of daily life. Consistently, the outcomes of machine learning reflect,…
View article: Cascading Crises: Society in the Age of COVID-19
Cascading Crises: Society in the Age of COVID-19 Open
The tsunami of change triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed society in a series of cascading crises. Unlike disasters that are more temporarily and spatially bounded, the pandemic has continued to expand across time and space …
View article: Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack With Becky and Karen
Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack With Becky and Karen Open
“BBQ Becky” and “Karen” memes reference real-world incidents in which Black individuals were harassed by White women in public spaces. In what I term the BBQ Becky meme genre, Black meme creators use humor, satire, and strategic positionin…
View article: Theorizing Black Community Online: Of Black Mind, Black Self, and Black Society
Theorizing Black Community Online: Of Black Mind, Black Self, and Black Society Open
Since initial research on online chatrooms, communities, and fandoms were conducted, the study of online community has burgeoned. Still, the literature that explores racial identity as a distinguishing factor in how individuals use social …
View article: I got all my sisters with me (on Black Twitter): second screening of<i>How to Get Away with Murder</i>as a discourse on Black Womanhood
I got all my sisters with me (on Black Twitter): second screening of<i>How to Get Away with Murder</i>as a discourse on Black Womanhood Open
In addition to performing racial identity on Black Twitter, Black users also use the platform to host discourse on Blackness. Tweets, hashtags, and trends associated with the television show How to Get Away with Murder are used to demonstr…
View article: Digital media technologies in everyday life
Digital media technologies in everyday life Open
We have, in the opening months of 2017, reports of technology industry workers in California boasting that they ‘helped meme a president into office’ (Harkinson, 2017). Digital media technologies s...
View article: Fat People of Color: Emergent Intersectional Discourse Online
Fat People of Color: Emergent Intersectional Discourse Online Open
Though the general populace has been introduced to the idea of thin privilege, the fat activist movement has been slow in gaining momentum. This is due, in part, to the symbolic annihilation of “fat” people in media. Within the fat activis…
View article: [New] media cultures
[New] media cultures Open
Sponsored by the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, this volume examines wide-ranging aspects of culture, communication, and [new] media broadly defined. Themes include the interpla…
View article: Digital distinctions and inequalities
Digital distinctions and inequalities Open
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Section of the American Sociological Association, Volume 10 of the Communication and Information Technologies Annual, Digital Distinctions & Inequalities, brings together …