The pairing of massive data sets with processes—or algorithms—written in computer code to
sort through, organize, extract, or mine them has made inroads in almost every major social …

Executive summary From the short-term and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to
the health insecurities brought about by climate change, health futures are unfolding in an …

The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and
freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the …

Participatory approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are gaining
momentum: the increased attention comes partly with the view that participation opens the …

This paper explores the important role of critical science, and in particular of post-colonial
and decolonial theories, in understanding and shaping the ongoing advances in artificial …

In addition, we stress that all contributors to this Special Issue are addressing digital
education platforms, and hence, that the articles gathered here do not have a generic …

Research on extractivism has rapidly proliferated, expanding into new empirical and
conceptual spaces. We examine the origins, evolution, and conceptual expansion of the …

New technologies are emerging at a fast pace without being properly analyzed in terms of
their social impact or adequately regulated by societies. One of the biggest potentially …

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and
communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are …