Technology, Power and Society

Critical Perspectives on the Global Digital Transformation
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71138-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 663 g

Reihe: Technology, Power & Society

Technology, Power and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Global Digital Transformation offers a critical exploration of how digitalization, datafication, and automation impact societies worldwide, with a particular focus on underrepresented and understudied contexts. This interdisciplinary volume unpacks the sociopolitical dynamics of new technologies, investigating their potential to empower, disrupt, and transform social structures across varied cultural landscapes. The book takes a broad view at various critical issues pertaining to digital media technologies and the socio-cultural challenges that come with their rise: How do big tech platforms try to dominate Internet access in the Global South? To what extent can they offer ways for resistance, where do they post risks for activists? How do current technology discourses maintain gender stereotypes and imbalances? How do visions of AI differ between political cultures? And how can we develop methodologies capable of capturing the complexity of global technology trends and their local manifestations? By bringing together global perspectives, this collection moves beyond conventional narratives to foster a nuanced understanding of how digital transformations both challenge and reshape local contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nguyen, Dennis

Mutsvairo, Bruce

Zeng, Jing

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Dennis Nguyen, Bruce Mutsvairo and Jing Zeng Part 1

Concepts

1 Cosmopolitan Critical Data Studies Dennis Nguyen

2 Digital and Epistemic Sovereignty in the Science Ecosystem in Latin America Thaiane Oliveira, Afonso de Albuquerque and Tatiane Mendes

3 Experimenting on the Frontier: Imperial Laboratories and Facebook’s Political Effects in Myanmar Stefan Bächtold

4 From Datafication to Interpellation Becoming a Data Subject in Contemporary Surveillance Cultures Bjorn Beijnon Part 2

Digital Cultures and Digital Politics

5 ‘BM Girl’ Influencers on Xiaohongshu: Tracing Beauty Discourse, Social Media Challenges, and Consumption Practices in Chinese Society Shen Sijun and Crystal Abidin

6 Privacy Expectations and Norms: Perceptions of Individual Digital Activists in Turkey’s Xsphere (Twittersphere) Yusuf Yüksekdag and Sarper Durmus

7 Detouring, Rerouting, Weaponization: Memetic Soundscapes and the Secondary Orality of WarTok Marloes Geboers, Daria Del and Elena Pilipets

8 Making Sense of Post-Coup Myanmar through Facebook Paula Romero Jiménez, Ana Melchor Pérez, Siebe Dekker, Miguel Oliveira Royo and Jing Zeng

9 Artificial Intelligence Governance Made in China: Negotiating Imaginaries and Power Yishu Mao Part 3

Inequalities, Resistance and Alternatives

10 “With great power comes great responsibility”: Lending Visibility to Risky Political Content Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen

11 Artificial Intelligence’s Sexual Politics: Three Modes and the Case of Japan Hiromi Tanaka and Michelle H. S. Ho

12 The Tech Gender Gap: A Closer Look at Women’s Experiences in the Technology Industry Julia Luteijn and Rhied Al-Othmani

13 Beyond the Strictest Computation of the General Proportion Gys-Walt Van Egdom and Christophe Declercq

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dennis Nguyen is an assistant professor for digital literacy and digital methods at Utrecht University. His research concerns critical data studies, public epistemology, and computational methods for researching media.

Jing Zeng is an assistant professor of computational social and communication science at University of Zurich. Her research concerns social implications of emerging digital technologies and methodology development.

Bruce Mutsvairo is a professor and chair of media, politics and the Global South at Utrecht University.