Rethinking how technologies harm

MA Wood - The British Journal of Criminology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Understanding how technologies contribute to social harms is a perennial issue, animating
debate within and well beyond criminology. This article contributes to these debates in two …

The material conditions of platforms: Monopolization through decentralization

T Blanke, J Pybus - Social Media+ Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we add research on technical integration and dependency to the theories of
platformization. Our research seeks to understand how platforms have been able to …

Did you give permission? Datafication in the mobile ecosystem

J Pybus, M Coté - Information, Communication & Society, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Our article presents a finely granulated perspective on the technical objects of datafication.
We contend that such cross-disciplinary focus provides a more rigorous material grounding …

Trump, the first Facebook president: why politicians need our data too

J Pybus - Trump's media war, 2019 - Springer
This chapter considers how advertising platforms like Facebook or companies like
Cambridge Analytica leveraged vast amounts of data to produce granulated, psychographic …

Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds

IM Tucker - Theory & Psychology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article develops new theoretical connections that offer insight regarding the status and
operation of emotion in digitally mediated environments. I draw on Gilbert Simondon's …

The calculation of meaning: on the misunderstanding of new artificial intelligence as culture

M Bunz - Culture, Theory and Critique, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A wide range of different AI systems based on the promising technology of
machine learning has been implemented into everyday life without further ado, at times …

On the individuation of complex computational models: Gilbert Simondon and the technicity of AI

S Aires - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
The proliferation of AI systems across all domains of life as well as the complexification and
opacity of algorithmic techniques, epitomised by the bourgeoning field of Deep Learning …

The emotional in-formation of digital life: Simondon, individuation and affectivity

I Tucker - Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The current paper argues for an onto-genetic account of our relationships with digital
technologies, that captures the excessive operation of data and the meta-stabilizing role of …

[PDF][PDF] 13. Speculative Data Infrastructures: Prototyping a Public Database on Corporate Tax Avoidance

JWY Gray - “Datafication is profoundly changing societies, often in …, 2024 - library.oapen.org
This chapter examines and reflects on three ways of workshopping 'data in the making'–
redesigning, prototyping, and interfacing–drawing on activities leading towards a …

[PDF][PDF] Pedagogies of the datafied: material foundations for literacies of the subject in the 21st century

M Lithgow - Digital, Culture, and Education, 2021 - academia.edu
What it means to be human, relevant and meaningful is no longer certain within emerging
regimes where computational complexity and data analysis increasingly determine …