This article critically examines how fears of audience gullibility, ignorance, and exploitation
impede media studies' response to the pressing challenges posed by the growing power of …

Since the early 2000s, the expression 'digital labour'has identified an influential theoretical
proposition in the Marxist critique of the political economy of digital media, which sees the …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is predicted to have a deep impact on the future of work and
employment. The paper outlines a normative framework to understand and protect human …

Far-right movements, activists, and political parties are on the rise worldwide. Several
scholars connect this rise of the far-right at least partially to the affordances of digital media …

The paper examines some of the processes of the closely knit relationship between
Google's ideologies of neutrality and objectivity and global market dominance. Neutrality …

Abstract 'Sex work'and sex workers have been constituted in conflicting and contradictory
ways, within both academia and wider society. Many theorists argue that sex work is …

The article explores Facebook governance–its mechanisms, motivations and sources of
power–while identifying wider patterns and logics that apply to other internet corporations. I …

The global diffusion of mobile devices-smartphones and tablets-has fundamentally changed
the way consumers interact with brands and viceversa, how companies are using marketing …

This paper reflects on the forms of digital labour present in upper secondary school students'
smartphone use during the school day. Digital labour is understood as value-producing …

In this article, I argue that the debate about the irrational consequences of rationality,
discussed within the tradition of the Frankfurt School, and applied to technology and …