Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups

K Birch, J Komljenovic, S Sellar… - Learning, Media and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The Covid pandemic highlighted the increasing deployment of digital technologies in
educational institutions, defined as 'edtech'. The most visible edtech was video conferencing …

[HTML][HTML] Behind the Clicks: Can Amazon allocate user attention as it pleases?

R Rock, I Strauss, T O'Reilly, M Mazzucato - Information Economics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate Amazon's ability to direct user clicks to more visually prominent search
results, even as quality declines with the increasing prevalence of sponsored advertising …

From attention economy to cognitive lock-ins

M Hansen - Big Data & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The economic logic of the attention economy is frequently used to critique and respond to
the dangers of unfettered technological expansion, including nascent platforms and …

Algorithmic Attention Systems and Writing-as-Content

C Masters-Wheeler - Computers and Composition, 2024 - Elsevier
This article considers the influence of algorithmic attention systems on writing and human
interaction within digital environments. Building on existing scholarship in writing studies on …

Monetising Digital Data in Higher Education: Analysing the Strategies and Struggles of EdTech Startups

J Komljenovic, K Birch, S Sellar - Postdigital Science and Education, 2024 - Springer
Digital data are a building block of postdigital higher education and, as such, are believed to
be economically and socially valuable. However, data need to be made valuable via a …

Techno-Feudalism as Primitive Accumulation: A Marxist Perspective on Digital Capitalism

J Yan - Critical Sociology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper explores the concept of 'techno-feudalism'in digital capitalism, reframing it
through the lens of Marxist crisis theory as a form of 'primitive accumulation in digital …

“Fridays Are Racist”: Evaluating Social Media Engagement From a Virtue Ethics Framework

L Medina - International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 2024 - igi-global.com
Social media platforms have become a threat to democracy and human flourishing. Critics
have previously expressed alarm that our ever-increasing technological habits are …

[图书][B] L'économie numérique: Enjeux et ressorts d'une révolution

N Van Zeebroeck - 2024 - books.google.com
Le numérique est partout, mais il n'est pas neutre. Alors qu'il promettait d'abattre les
barrières et de démocratiser la planète, il a engendré une économie qui favorise les plus …

Statistical Hypothesis Testing and Modelling of Peoples' Power: A Causal Study of the# BlackLivesMatter Movement via Hawkes Processes on Social and Mass Media

A Lindström, S Lindgren, R Sainudiin - International Conference on Data …, 2023 - Springer
In the current mass media landscape with a few corporate owners and operating under the
propaganda model of communication aimed at manufacturing system-supportive consent …

[PDF][PDF] Monetization Risks in AI Systems: A Bing Copilot case study

I Strauss, T O'Reilly, M Mazzucato, J Schulte - 2024 - ssrc.org
We conduct a descriptive analysis and simple experiments on Microsoft's AI Copilot LLM–a
service that provides answers in a comparable manner to a Search results engine. We …