The emergence of algorithmic solidarity: unveiling mutual aid practices and resistance among Chinese delivery workers

Z Yu, E Treré, T Bonini - Media International Australia, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores how Chinese riders game the algorithm-mediated governing system of
food delivery service platforms and how they mobilize WeChat to build solidarity networks to …

The tensions of deepfakes

BN Jacobsen, J Simpson - Information, communication & society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, deepfakes have become part and parcel of contemporary algorithmic
culture. It is regularly claimed that they have the potential to introduce novel modes of …

How to train your algorithm: the struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok

C Jones - Media, Culture & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media users are increasingly aware of the politics of their viewing habits, and they
attempt to express these politics through interactions with proprietary algorithms. Combining …

# FuckTheAlgorithm: algorithmic imaginaries and political resistance

G Benjamin - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper applies and extends the concept of algorithmic imaginaries in the context of
political resistance to sociotechnical injustice. Focusing on the 2020 UK OfQual protests, the …

How empty is Trustworthy AI? A discourse analysis of the Ethics Guidelines of Trustworthy AI

E Stamboliev, T Christiaens - Critical Policy Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT 'Trustworthy artificial intelligence'(TAI) is contested. Considering the growing
power of Big Tech and the fear that AI ethics lacks sufficient institutional backing to enforce …

The supply chain capitalism of AI: a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens

A Valdivia - Information, Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is woven into a supply chain of capital, commodities and human
labour that has been neglected in critical debates. Given the current surge in generative AI …

The oppositional affordances of data activism

DL Milioni, V Papa - Media International Australia, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study draws on several data activism projects and applies discursive interface analysis
to understand the material means by which activist software strives to empower users vis-à …

Becoming intimate with algorithms: Towards a critical antagonism via algorithmic art

T Wiehn - Media International Australia, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article takes departure in the notion of intimacy to identify the critical dependencies with
contemporary algorithms. The presented concept of algorithmic intimacies points to how …

Towards Algorithmic Luddism: class politics in data capitalism

V Charitsis, M Laamanen… - … , Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines responses to inequalities (re) produced by algorithms, particularly
affecting disadvantaged social strata. Positioning class politics at the centre of the analysis …

Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers' organisation

J Vilasís-Pamos, F Pires, R Grohmann… - …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article introduces the special issue,'Social Media and Platform Work: Stories, Practices,
and Workers' Organisation'. In recent years, platform labour studies have increasingly …