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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: Hermeneutics for an anti-hermeneutic age: What the legacy of Jesús Martín-Barbero means today
Hermeneutics for an anti-hermeneutic age: What the legacy of Jesús Martín-Barbero means today Open
This article, after discussing the obstacles to the initial reception of Martín-Barbero’s work on mediation in Europe, analyses its importance to contemporary media research in terms of three factors: mediation, inequality and complexity. …
View article: On Social Media, Solidarity, and the Catastrophe of Climate Change
On Social Media, Solidarity, and the Catastrophe of Climate Change Open
This short article reflects on the implications of the political challenge of combatting climate change. For this, greater political solidarity will be needed. But what if our current model of social media platforms is generally toxic for …
View article: Post-Covid: What is cultural theory useful for?
Post-Covid: What is cultural theory useful for? Open
This short piece explores what cultural theory should learn from the experience of the global pandemic. It argues that the main lesson should not be about how the crisis of the pandemic has been interpreted culturally, but about the deep s…
View article: 2 The Social Construction of Reality – Really!
2 The Social Construction of Reality – Really! Open
The Social Construction of Reality -Really!
View article: The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading?
The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading? Open
This article traces the emergence of a 'decolonial turn' in critical technology and data studies that analyzes the transformation of society through data extraction for profit. First, we offer a genealogy of concepts over the last decade f…
View article: Review Essay: Unravelling Democracy’s Anti-Democratic Machine
Review Essay: Unravelling Democracy’s Anti-Democratic Machine Open
This review of two recent books, with further discussion of a third, addresses questions of the direction of democracy and the impacts of media circulation and data extraction on democratic culture. The reviewed books are Selena Nemorin (2…
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: Giving by taking away: big tech, data colonialism and the reconfiguration of social good
Giving by taking away: big tech, data colonialism and the reconfiguration of social good Open
Big Tech companies have recently led and financed projects that claim to use datafication for the “social good.” This article explores what kind of social good it is that this sort of datafication engenders. Drawing mostly on the analysis …
View article: Health data and global power inequalities: challenging the world data order
Health data and global power inequalities: challenging the world data order Open
Today’s global media infrastructures involve not just media, but the continual extraction and circulation of data across digital platforms, with health data being an important data domain. The extraction and use of health data raises parti…
View article: Preface. Colonized by Data
Preface. Colonized by Data Open
Colonized by DataTh e telegraph pole, the Christian cross, and the rifl e arrived all at once for the Bororo people of Mato Grosso.Th e rifl e of the soldier and the settler served to seize the Bororo's land in the name of industry and pro…
View article: Recovering critique in an age of datafication
Recovering critique in an age of datafication Open
This article starts out from the need for critical work on processes of datafication and their consequences for the constitution of social knowledge and the social world. Current social science work on datafication has been greatly shaped …
View article: Capabilities for What? Developing Sen's Moral Theory For Communications Research
Capabilities for What? Developing Sen's Moral Theory For Communications Research Open
This article reviews debates about the application of Amartya Sen's capabilities theory to the understanding and regulation of media and communications. It argues that Sen's insistence on the complexity of ethical reasoning, and the underl…
View article: Datafication
Datafication Open
Datafication is not just the making of information, which, in one sense, human beings have been doing since the creation of symbols and writing. Rather, datafication is a contemporary phenomenon which refers to the quantification of human …
View article: What’s at Stake in Digital Social Research?
What’s at Stake in Digital Social Research? Open
I am a social researcher who uses both theoretical and empirical enquiry not so much to describe the social as to understand the conflicts involved in constructing an order that appears to us as ‘social’. I seek to address the paradox of d…
View article: Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated?
Making data colonialism liveable: how might data’s social order be regulated? Open
Humanity is currently undergoing a large-scale social, economic and legal transformation based on the massive appropriation of social life through data extraction. This quantification of the social represents a new colonial move. While the…
View article: Capabilities for What? Developing Sen's Moral Theory For Communications Research
Capabilities for What? Developing Sen's Moral Theory For Communications Research Open
This article reviews debates about the application of Amartya Sen's capabilities theory to the understanding and regulation of media and communications. It argues that Sen's insistence on the complexity of ethical reasoning, and the underl…
View article: SOCIAL ONTOLOGY IN BIG DATA ORGANIZING
SOCIAL ONTOLOGY IN BIG DATA ORGANIZING Open
Computational ontologies (Pease 2011; Arp et al. 2015) are a key feature of data-sharing and data-labelling practices on the internet. Ontologies help integrate disparate or unorganized data to produce meaning, sort of “like a thesaurus, a…
View article: Discovering the continuous reality of mediations, or rediscovering the history of our research field
Discovering the continuous reality of mediations, or rediscovering the history of our research field Open
Neste artigo, Nick Couldry recorda seu encontro com o livro De los medios a las mediaciones, destacando pontos que marcam o caráter inovador da obra de Jesús Martín-Barbero e notando, em conclusão, que esse autor e sua obra devem ser devid…
View article: Descobrindo a contínua realidade das mediações, ou redescobrindo a história de nosso campo de investigação
Descobrindo a contínua realidade das mediações, ou redescobrindo a história de nosso campo de investigação Open
In this article, Nick Couldry author remember his encounter with the book De los medios a las mediaciones, highlighting points that mark the innovative character of the Jesus Martín-Barbero’s work. In his conclusion, the author indicates t…
View article: Digital Traces in Context| Tracing Capitalism’s Turn to Data: Or, Contextualizing Daily Life’s New Data “Context” — Commentary
Digital Traces in Context| Tracing Capitalism’s Turn to Data: Or, Contextualizing Daily Life’s New Data “Context” — Commentary Open
This short response to the articles in this Special Section foregrounds the wider context of data traces in the development of capitalism. After analyzing the issue’s articles into three categories (dealing with epistemology, agency, and s…
View article: The Public Connection Project ten years on
The Public Connection Project ten years on Open
Book synopsis: Los trabajos de este libro reúnen una serie de experiencias concretas en cinco países sobre las formas en que las personas, en su vida diaria, se aproximan y apropian de diversos asuntos “de interés general” de los que no só…
View article: Inequality and Communicative Struggles in Digital Times: a Global Report on Communication for Social Progress
Inequality and Communicative Struggles in Digital Times: a Global Report on Communication for Social Progress Open
Originally the “Media and Communication” chapter of the International Panel on Social Progress, published by Cambridge University Press, we hope this version as a CARGC Press book will expand the reach of the authors’ vision of communicati…
View article: Mediating the presence of others: Reconceptualising co-presence as mediated intimacy
Mediating the presence of others: Reconceptualising co-presence as mediated intimacy Open
Drawing insight from queer and media studies, this article analyses data from the UK study Adults’ Media Lives. The authors claim that this study reveals the significance of people’s intimate relationships to their media practices, highlig…
View article: The continuing lure of the mediated centre in times of deep mediatization: <i>Media Events</i> and its enduring legacy
The continuing lure of the mediated centre in times of deep mediatization: <i>Media Events</i> and its enduring legacy Open
Dayan and Katz’s book Media Events was so crucial because it challenged the dominance of quantitative communications research focused on measurable discrete ‘media effects’. But meanwhile new challenges have emerged which we called ‘deep m…