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View article: Reporting online abuse to platforms: Factors, interfaces and the potential for care
Reporting online abuse to platforms: Factors, interfaces and the potential for care Open
Evidence suggests that the rate of reporting abuse, harassment and problematic content to platforms is substantially low. This article assesses the extent to which platform interfaces may contribute to discouraging the use of reporting as …
View article: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATIVE AI
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATIVE AI Open
Current media coverage surrounding ChatGPT, LaMDA, and Luminous has brought questions about the automation of communication into the mainstream. Artificially intelligent media are no longer merely mediating instances of communication but a…
View article: Inteligência Artificial, Soluções Artificiais - Colocando a emergência climática no centro dos desenvolvimentos de IA
Inteligência Artificial, Soluções Artificiais - Colocando a emergência climática no centro dos desenvolvimentos de IA Open
Despite growing attention to the environmental costs of information communication technology systems, Artificial Intelligence gets principally heralded as the key technology to solve contemporary challenges, including the environmental cri…
View article: Carbon Capitalism, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence
Carbon Capitalism, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence Open
Communication has become crucial to the climate crisis, be it in promoting or impeding action for change. As the public has come to depend on social media platforms and communication channels to shape their understanding of the crisis, the…
View article: Creating the Technological Saviour: Discourses on AI in Europe and the Legitimation of Super Capitalism
Creating the Technological Saviour: Discourses on AI in Europe and the Legitimation of Super Capitalism Open
Scholars in political economy of communication such as Vincent Mosco have showed how discourses around digital technologies have historically been constructed as modern myths with major references to utopian worlds and possibilities. Myths…
View article: ANALYZING THE PLATFORM ECONOMY – FEUDALISM, MEDIEVALISM AND COLONIALISM AS USEFUL FRAMEWORKS
ANALYZING THE PLATFORM ECONOMY – FEUDALISM, MEDIEVALISM AND COLONIALISM AS USEFUL FRAMEWORKS Open
The platform economy challenges existing economic systems, social interactions and participation as well as the very foundation of democracy. As data is replacing labor as the central economic good, economy, society, class structures and d…
View article: Revisiting the Black Box Society by rethinking the political economy of big data
Revisiting the Black Box Society by rethinking the political economy of big data Open
The Black Box Society was one of first scholarly accounts to propose a social theory of the use of data in constructing personal reputations, new media audiences, and financial power, by illuminating recurrent patterns of power and exploit…
View article: Black boxes, not green: Mythologizing artificial intelligence and omitting the environment
Black boxes, not green: Mythologizing artificial intelligence and omitting the environment Open
We are repeatedly told that AI will help us to solve some of the world's biggest challenges, from treating chronic diseases and reducing fatality rates in traffic accidents to fighting climate change and anticipating cybersecurity threats.…
View article: Climate Change and the Media
Climate Change and the Media Open
Climate Change and the Media gathers contributions from a range of international scholars to explore the media's role in our understanding of climate change and our willingness to take action...
View article: Metadata Laws, Journalism and Resistance in Australia
Metadata Laws, Journalism and Resistance in Australia Open
The intelligence leaks from Edward Snowden in 2013 unveiled the sophistication and extent of data collection by the United States’ National Security Agency and major global digital firms prompting domestic and international debates about t…