Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities

Emiliana Armano et al. (eds.)

Part of the Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies series.

Algorithms are a form of productive power – so how may we conceptualise the newly merged terrains of social life, economy and self in a world of digital platforms? How do multiple self-quantifying practices interact with questions of class, race and gender? This collection considers algorithms at work, alongside black box control, platform society theory and the formation of subjectivities.

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AI for Everyone?

Critical Perspectives

Pieter Verdegem (ed.)

Part of the Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies series.

This book offers critical interrogations of AI and its impact in order to offer analysis of what ‘AI for Everyone’ might mean. It is structured in three parts: ‘AI: Humans vs. Machines’, ‘Discourses and Myths About AI’ and ‘AI Power and Inequalities’. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines this book offers a vital intervention on one of the most hyped concepts of our times.

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The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto

Christian Fuchs, Klaus Unterberger (eds.)

This book presents the collectively authored Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto. With it are materials that informed its creation: the results of Christian Fuchs’s Public Service Media/Internet Survey, Graham Murdock’s verdict on public service media today and a summary of an ecomitee.com discussion of the Manifesto’s foundations.

The Manifesto can be signed by visiting http://bit.ly/signPSManifesto

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