European Communication Research and Education Association
University of Manchester
Job reference: HUM-024313
Salary: £40, 521-£56,021 per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Permanent
Division/Team: Art History and Cultural Practices
Hours Per Week: 35
Closing date: 07/02/2024
Contract Duration: n/a
School/Directorate: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Apply here: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=27762
The University of Manchester invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time Lectureship in Digital Humanities (Teaching & Research contract).
The successful candidate will have a PhD in Digital Humanities or in any of the humanities subject areas in the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures. We are interested in candidates with expertise in one or several of the following methods applied to research in the humanities:
∙Computational humanities
∙Natural language processing/text mining
∙Network analysis in the humanities
The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the development, delivery and administration of teaching on the new BA and MA programmes in Digital Media, Culture and Society, which offer advanced study in the critique and design of digital media and technology with a particular focus on their cultural and social implications, as well as to the Minor in Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will also be expected to conduct research and publish work that meets standards of international excellence and complements the research strengths of the Digital Humanities, Media and Culture team.
The University will actively foster a culture of inclusion and diversity and will seek to achieve true equality of opportunity for all members of its community.
What you will get in return:
∙Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
∙Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
∙Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
∙Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
∙Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers
As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here.
Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.
Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.
Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.
Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews: Email: luca.scholz@manchester.ac.uk
General enquiries: Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk
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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the following link for more details, application form and the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=27762
Deadline: February 29, 2024
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Kowi/institut/arbeitsbereiche/call-for-contributions-ecrea-book.shtml
Amidst the hype around generative AI, critical approaches are demonstrating how technologies of automation foster forms of exploitation in relation to natural resources and the environment, labour and working conditions as well as social injustice. This edited volume seeks to contribute a comprehensive media and communication research perspective on the socio-ecological relations that emerge from practices of use and development of “AI”. We are looking for contributions that analyze the manifold social processes and related tensions that contribute towards manifesting AI infrastructures, with their underlying ideologies, power dynamics, forms of exploitation, extractivism, inequalities etc. This call for contributions follows an invitation by the ECREA Open Access Book Series Committee to develop a proposal for a volume on “AI Infrastructures and Sustainability”.
Full information
Call for Contributions for an Open Access publication with Palgrave as part of the ECREA Open Access Book Series
Proposal for an edited book on AI Infrastructures and Sustainability
Deadline: 29.02.2024
Editors: Anne Mollen, Sigrid Kannengießer, Fieke Jansen, Julia Velkova
This call for contributions follows an invitation by the ECREA Open Access Book Series Committee to develop a proposal for a volume on “AI Infrastructures and Sustainability”. The Committee has invited overall three publications to develop full proposals – one of which will be selected as Open Access publication with Palgrave as part of the ECREA book series.
The proposed volume
Amidst the hype around generative AI, critical data studies as well as media and communication research have been exploring the “anatomy of AI” (Crawford & Joler, 2018), showing how technologies of automation, mostly labelled as Artificial Intelligence (AI), foster forms of exploitation in relation to natural resources and the environment, labour and working conditions as well as social injustice. While engineering-oriented fields, such as Machine Learning (ML), approach intra- and intergenerational justice under the label of “sustainability” and “ethics”, the proposed book acknowledges that AI infrastructures cannot be reduced to questions of technology and its design but need to be addressed as sociotechnical issues and relations (Parks et al. 2023; Plantin & Punathambekar, 2019). This edited volume seeks to contribute a comprehensive media and communication research perspective on the socio-ecological relations that emerge from practices of use and development of “AI”, and their far-reaching implications to justice, environments, and infrastructures. The book extends the work of scholars in environmental media and critical data studies that is concerned with the materialities and environmental relations that sustain digital media (Starosielski and Walker 2016; Gabrys 2011; Crawford & Joler, 2018), and calls for developing critical and transformative perspectives. We are looking for contributions that analyze the manifold social processes and related tensions that contribute towards manifesting AI infrastructures, with their underlying ideologies, power dynamics, forms of exploitation, extractivism, inequalities etc., developing alternative critical vocabularies, interventions, and approaches to “sustainability”.
Call for Contributions
The proposed volume assembles research in media and communications on AI infrastructures in relation to questions of sustainability. We invite critical theoretical, historical, methodological, and empirical reflections on the “sustainability” of technologies that go under the label of “AI”. Contributions could include analyses of how sustainability, infrastructures or other related notions can be conceptualized in relation to technologies of automation – to deconstruct how AI-related narratives, imaginaries, norms, practices etc. with their ensuing implications manifest in infrastructures of automated communication. We also welcome authors to introduce new concepts that contribute to create more affective, transformative, theoretically nuanced narratives and understandings of how to make liveable relations with AI. Considering the necessity for a great socio-ecological transformation, the proposed volume also encourages reflections on transformative perspectives in media and communication research, addressing media and communication’s role in the shaping and transforming of societies increasingly becoming reliant on technologies of automation.
Submission details and expected time frame for publication
We are seeking abstracts (250-300 words, excluding references) to be submitted until February, 29 2024 to anne.mollen@uni-muenster.de addressing – but not limited to – one or more of the following topics:
Media and communication research can contribute with nuanced, critical, and normative analyses on the socio-technical relations that make and sustain AI infrastructures. This perspective is direly needed in the discussion of AI and sustainability, which needs to be acknowledged as more than a technical concern to which technical solutions can be found. A comprehensive media and communication perspective can instead assess the manifestations, contestations, and historical continuities in the emergence of AI infrastructures while reflecting on matters of sustainability. With the proposed volume we are calling on scholars to orient discussions on automation as well as human-machine-interaction emerging in relation to media and communications towards an interrogation of the infrastructures, practices, and more-than-human relations that constitute the operations of technologies that go under the label of “AI” through the lens of sustainability.
Selection process and time frame
The editors will choose abstracts based on their suitability and consistency regarding the full proposal of the edited book. Full chapter submissions are roughly planned for by late 2024/early 2025 and publication is expected in 2025. Palgrave will be choosing between this and two other book proposals to be selected for the open access publication in the ECREA Book Series Committee and will communicate their decision in late spring 2024. Further details will be communicated after the ECREA Book Series Committee’s decision. Inquiries about the process and the Call for Contributions can be directed at anne.mollen@uni-muenster.de.
Key dates
Friday, February 2, 2024 (2:00-3:30 p.m. MT)
Online via Zoom
The Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary presents its annual Race in Film and Media Lecture by Ramnarayan S. Rawat, University of Delaware:
Register at: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuf-CurTksG9UZMh5j53X6TWqErjHEbRtc
This event will be streamed via Zoom but not recorded.
Bio: Ramnarayan S. Rawat is a historian of South Asia at the University of Delaware with research interests in caste, race, and democratic practices. He is completing his second book, ‘The Language of Liberalism: The Lost History of the Dalit Public Sphere in Late Colonial India’. He is also co-editing the second Dalit Studies volume, Dalit Journeys of Dignity: Religion, Freedom, and Caste’ which is forthcoming in fall 2024. Rawat recently co-edited book, Dalit Studies, with colleague, K. Satyanarayana, based in Hyderabad (India), and published by Duke University Press, 2016. His first book, Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India (2011), was awarded Joseph W Elder Book prize (2009) in Social Sciences given by the American Institute of Indian Studies and it also received Honorable Mention in the Bernard Cohn book prize (2013), Association of Asian Studies.
University of Siegen
The DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center "Media of Cooperation" at the University of Siegen is currently looking to hire staff for a newly funded project phase.
A PhD research position in media studies (TVL 13, 65%, limited until 31 December 2027, application deadline 07.02.24) as part of our new sub-project “Bicycle Media:”, led by Julia Bee https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Researcher-SFB-1187%2C-project-Bicycle-Media%2C-Cooperative-media-of-mobility-57072/1025821501/
A postdoc research position as a scientific coordinator (TVL 13, 100% limited until 31 December 2027, application deadline 14.02.24) for scientific support and coordination of the research center https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Researcher-CRC-1187-Media-of-Cooperation-57072/1026008701/
The CRC is an interdisciplinary research network consisting of 15 projects and more than 60 researchers from media studies, science and technology studies, ethnology, sociology, linguistics and literature, computer science and law as well as history, education and engineering. It has been funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) since 2016. Research focuses on the study of digitally networked media and their practices.
For further job updates and more information on the research project, please visit https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/news/.
Information, Communication & Society (Special Issue)
Deadline: February 15, 2024
Special Issue Editors:
From democratic to authoritarian contexts, governments worldwide face the challenge of setting up oversight mechanisms for generative AI systems. The European Union recently reached an agreement for the proposed EU AI Act. A few months earlier, China had enacted one of the first laws in the world to regulate generative AI systems. Navigating this global policy landscape is challenging, not only due to differences between regulatory regimes but also because of the fast pace at which new variations of generative AI systems are developed.
However, the governance of generative AI systems is not only a task for governments and regulators – it also occurs at the workplace and at the institutional level. For example, in the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, the use of generative AI systems featured prominently. Such developments signify a need for a new understanding of generative AI governance, expanding its scope beyond a narrow focus on regulatory frameworks. As such, this special issue asks: How does the landscape of generative AI governance shape the discursive and material dimensions of generative AI systems, and what are the underlying factors influencing this development?
To address this question, the special issue invites contributions that cover a wide cultural and geographical range of case studies or comparative studies. Given that the governance of generative AI systems is a globally interconnected phenomenon, engagements with regional, national, and supranational forms of generative AI governance are encouraged. Potential empirical entry points include but are not limited to:
- Assessing the efficacy of designated AI oversight measures (e.g., risk assessments, audit procedures, red-teaming) in light of swiftly evolving material properties of generative AI systems.
- Examining strategies of generative AI providers to shape and influence governance regimes – for example, through research, lobbying, tool development, and terms of use/usage policies.
- Understanding how institutional dynamics in particular sectors and cultural industries (e.g., journalism, education, entertainment) shape the design, use and effects of generative AI systems.
- Comparing how governance regimes observe, inspect and modify generative AI systems (e.g., China’s central algorithm registry vs. the EU’s proposed database for high-risk AI systems).
- Investigating how sociotechnical imaginaries about generative AI (e.g., perceived “existential risks”) inform the design, substance and enforcement of particular regulatory frameworks.
- Connecting considerations about the global political economy of AI to geopolitical issues about digital sovereignty, as illustrated by US export controls for specific AI chips.
Submission Instructions and Timeline:
Please submit an abstract of 500-800 words (including references) to f.l.ferrari@uu.nl and joanne.kuai@kau.se no later than 15 February 2024. The abstract should specify: 1) the problem or question being addressed, 2) the paper’s methodological or analytical approach, and 3) the anticipated results or conclusions of the research. Decisions about the selection of abstracts will be communicated to authors by 15 March 2024.
The deadline for submitting invited papers is 31 August 2024. The special issue will follow the submission and review guidelines of Information, Communication & Society. Each invited paper will be peer-reviewed. An invitation to submit a full paper does not automatically ensure its acceptance in the special issue or in the journal. If you have any questions, please reach out to the guest editors via email.
Check out the full call for papers here: http://bit.ly/generative-ai-governance
Nordicom Review (special Issue)
Deadline: February 9, 2024
Editors:
Important dates:
Nordicom invites authors to submit extended abstracts for a special issue of
Nordicom Review. The Call is for literature reviews of research on media communication and journalism and their dependence and influence on democracy. Proposals should include relevance for the Nordic region.
Background and aim
Media, communication, and journalism are important elements of a well-functioning democracy, and at the same time a well-functioning democracy is in many ways a condition for dynamic media systems, independent journalism, and the rights to communicate freely and access information freely.
In response to this, research on media, communication, and journalism has always been focused on matters related to democracy – though all scholars don’t neccessarily put democracy at the forefront. However, irrespective of knowledge interest, theoretical position, or methodological approach, scholars interested in media use or effects, public discourses, media technologies, journalism, public opinion, or organised communication activities have frequently motivated their research with its implications and importance for politics and democracy. Accordingly, researchers of media, communication, and journalism have a long history of bringing important knowledge to society.
Recent developments in research with higher levels of specialisation and a strong tendency towards compartmentalisation have made it difficult to gain thorough overviews of the knowledge developments in research. This is a shortcoming that not only affects scholars’ abilities to gain valid overviews of their research domains, but it also influences the research community’s abilities to provide substantiated knowledge to society and to be policy relevant.
In tandem with recent developments in media systems, the circumstances for media production, the developments of communication technologies, and value transformations in the citizenry have increased the need for qualified and reliable knowledge. Particulary in a time when democracy is contested and contentious issues demand purposeful systems for knowledge distribution as well as arenas for open and inclusive public debates.
Bringing all this together, there is a call for scholars who will take responsibility for the collection, consolidation, and distribution of knowledge regarding media, communication, journalism – and democracy. This can be done in different ways, but to systematically produce and publish comprehensive and reliable research reviews is one that evidently can contribute to the research community, public debate, and policy formation.
For Nordicom, it is of relevance to provide a platform for this kind of work and to actively distribute it. To promote democratic values is part of our mission, and another is to actively contribute to the supply of science-based knowledge in media policy processes in the Nordic region. Thereby, our activities and publications aim to strengthen and highlight Nordic perspectives in international media research. Here, Nordicom has a unique position at the interface between academia, industry, and politics and between Nordic and international levels.
Topics
The theme for the special issue is media, communication, and/or journalism, with emphasis on matters relevant for democracy.
We aim for a collection of articles with a clear relevance for contemporary democracy in the Nordic region, and we will give priority to papers with a broader approach rather than a review with focus on a single theory or similar. The articles are expected to answer the question “What do we know about X?” The topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
The Nordic perspective
The Nordic perspective implies that the articles should focus on an issue or a theme that is relevant given the conditions and circumstances that characterise democracy in the Nordic region as a whole or individual countries in the region. That is to say, the Nordic perspective doesn’t mean that the overviews should be limited to research conducted by scholars in the Nordic region or limited to research focusing on the Nordic region. The Nordic relevance is to be made explicit and discussed in the article.
Types of reviews
There are a number of different types of literature reviews – from highly formalised methods that seek to systematically search for, appraise, and synthesise research evidence to less-formalised approaches which provide assessments of current literature regarding a theme or domain.
For this issue, we welcome all types of reviews, but we expect all to focus on empirical research. In addition, all contributions must include a discussion regarding the following:
Procedure
Those with an interest in contributing should write an extended abstract (max. 750 words excluding references) where the subject is described. In addition
to this, the abstract should include a discussion about how the article fits with the overall theme, how the Nordic perspective is made relevant, and what type of review the authors will apply.
Send your extended abstract by 9 February 2024 to editors@nordicom.gu.se and include in the subject line: “Submission to special issue”.
Scholars invited to submit a full manuscript (6,000–8,000 words excluding references) will be notified by e-mail after the abstracts have been assessed.
All submissions should be original works and must not be under consideration by other publishers.
Contact
Questions about the special issue and the related workshop can be addressed to Magnus Fredriksson: magnus.fredriksson@nordicom.gu.se
About Nordicom Review
Nordicom Review adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy, and articles are published Open Access with no processing charges for authors.
Nordicom Review includes research with relevance for the Nordic context and welcomes interdisciplinary submissions from a worldwide authorship.
Read more about Nordicom Review here: https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/nordicom-review
September 4-6, 2024
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (India), University of Graz (Austria)/online
Deadline (EXTENDED): January 26, 2024
The deadline has been extended for abstract submissions to Situating Data Practices Beyond Data Universalism, the 5th International Data Power Conference, 4th – 6th September 2024, online and in person in the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B), India and the University of Graz, Austria. The new deadline is 26th January 2024.
Communication of Acceptance: 15th March 2024
More Information is available on the Data Power website.
Call for abstracts
The Data Power Conference hosts critical reflections on data’s power and the social, political, economic and cultural consequences of data’s increasing presence in our lives, workplaces, and societies. The 5th International Data Power focuses on situating data practices and looking beyond data universalism. It aims to:
In addition, the conference asks:
To facilitate dialogues across disciplines and with stakeholders, we welcome papers from interdisciplinary teams including disciplines incorporating aspects of data science, and papers which incorporate non-academic collaborators from a range of sectors.
As always, the Data Power Conference remains concerned with in/equalities, discrimination, questions of justice, rights and freedoms, and agency and resistance. We welcome papers that engage with these matters.
There will be a keynote speaker in each of the in-person locations, details to be confirmed.
Information on paper abstracts and proposals for making & doing sessions
Information on conference attendance
Abstract submission
You can submit your abstract via our abstract submission system from 1st November.
Organizing Committee
Deadline: March 20, 2024
Link: https://t.uzh.ch/1Bn
Database of Variables for Content Analysis (DOCA) invites submissions for entries.
The open access database compiles, systematizes, and evaluates relevant content-analytical variables of communication and political science research areas and topics.
DOCA simplifies access to common variables and their categories for content analysis research. It provides entries for single variables (e.g., actors, issues...) and more complex theoretical constructs (often measured by more than one variable e.g., americanization).
The database serves as a foundation for answering questions about research designs and operationalizations resorting to content analysis and helps standardize and compare studies. It also promotes equal opportunity among researchers by providing free access to important resources.
We are looking for authors for the following variable entries:
Section Basics / Procedures
• Types of Media Outlets (Website, TV, Print...)
• Types of Digital/Social Media (Blogs, professional networks, platforms…)
Section News / Journalism:
• News Factors/ News Values; this includes the following variables: aggression/conflict, importance, duration, elite/celebrity, emotions, continuity, controversy, proximity, reach, relevance, (potential) damage/benefit, thematization, scope, and unexpectedness
• Objectivity
• Narrativity or narratives
• Visual framing
• Political balance
• Strategy and game framing
• Framing elements based on Entman (esp. science or health communication)
• Interpretive journalism
• Alternative news media
• Journalistic role performance
Section: Organizational / Strategic Communication:
• Storytelling
• Mediatization (esp. science or political communication)
• Fear appeals (esp. health communication)
Section: Automated Content Analysis
• Emotions
• User reactions
• Visualisations
Of course, you can also send us suggestions for further variables anytime. DOCA welcomes state-of-the-art contributions that summarise and discuss various operationalisations - usually by other researchers - as well as contributions that introduce variables that have been developed by the author(s) of the submitted entry themselves. In this way, DOCA can also contribute to the further development of operationalisations and reflect current research trends.
Each database entry follows (more or less) the following structure:
1. A brief description of the variable or theoretical construct
2. A brief description of the most common field of application / theoretical foundation
3. (If applicable) References / combination with other methods of data collection
4. A sample operationalization including information about the selected study / selected studies (research question/s; analyzed media type) and information about the variable or construct (level of analysis, reliability score, categories / values)
5. (If available) the codebook / protocol / code or other relevant material
PROCEDURE REGARDING THE CALL
• If you are interested in authoring an entry, please email us at: mfg@ikmz.uzh.ch by March 20, 2024.
• Information on variables or constructs in our database can be found at this link: www.hope.uzh.ch/doca.
• You will receive a response within two weeks regarding your acceptance and instructions for preparing your entry.
• Please submit your entry, which should be approximately 2 pages long, by no later than May 1, 2024.
• If your entry is accepted, we will handle the typesetting, design, and publication. Each entry will be assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
• No fees are charged to authors for submission, evaluation, or publication processes.
We are very much looking forward to your submissions.
Franziska Oehmer-Pedrazzi, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons FHGR
Sabrina H. Kessler, University of Zurich
Edda Humprecht, University of Zurich
Katharina Sommer, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Laia Castro Herrero, Universitat de Barcelona
May 21–24 , 2024
Stuttgart (Germany)
https://websci24.webscience.org/
OVERVIEW & PURPOSE
We invite proposals for workshops and tutorials at the ACM Web Science Conference 2024 (WebSci’24). The conference will take place in Stuttgart, Germany, from May 21 to 24, 2024, and serve as center stage for the special theme: “Reflecting on Web, AI, and Society”.
Workshops will take place on May 21, 2024, during the first day of the conference.
The ACM Web Science Conference 2024 will feature co-located workshops and tutorials to provide a forum for interdisciplinary research. Contributions may stem from a variety of disciplines, for instance (but not limited to) Computer Science, Sociology, Digital
Humanities, and Computational Social Science. Researchers and practitioners studying the complex and plural impact of the Web and AI on society and vice versa can engage in discussions on relevant topics (including but not limited to those mentioned in the CfP for the main conference program).
WebSci’24 workshops/tutorials may address any topic relevant to the global Web Science community, e.g., questions of basic research as well as applied research, Web-related practices, new methodologies, emerging application areas, privacy, ethics, sustainability, or innovations. Each workshop/tutorial should strive to generate ideas that can give the community a fresh or synthesized perspective on the topic or suggest promising directions for future work. For instance, how can the Web science community develop methods, tools, or frameworks to help us responsibly navigate the age of generative AI? How can we build resilience against the spread of misinformation and disinformation in the age of LLMs? The tutorials could cover a wide variety of Web Science approaches and methods.
If you are working in an emerging area in the broad landscape of Web Science research, do consider contributing or participating.
IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop/Tutorial proposal submission: Feb 9, 2024
Workshop/Tutorial proposal notification: Feb 16, 2024
Workshop & Tutorials Day: May 21, 2024
Note that all submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submission System: Submissions should be sent to workshops@iris.uni-stuttgart.de.
Format & Length: All workshop proposals should adopt the current ACM SIG Conference proceedings template (acmart.cls). Please submit papers as PDF files using the ACM template, either in Microsoft Word format (available here under “Word Authors”) or with the ACM LaTeX template on the Overleaf platform, available here.
In particular, please ensure you are using the two-column version of the appropriate template.
Submission must be as a single PDF file: max. 4 (four) pages in length, including references.
Structure:
Workshop/Tutorial proposals should conform to the following structure:
REVIEW PROCESS & NEXT STEPS
The workshop and tutorial chairs, in consultation with the general chairs, will create a carefully curated list of workshops with an aim to reflect the needs and desires of the Web Science community at large. Please note that we might propose modifications and augmentations, such as suggesting that workshops be shortened or combined where appropriate. The workshops/tutorials ought to address timely topics and phenomena; therefore, it depends on the year which topics are considered particularly relevant and interesting.
Workshop/tutorial series or follow-up workshops/tutorials from those in previous conferences will be given special consideration but are not automatically accepted. Space in the program and technical limitations will also influence the number and form of the selected workshops and tutorials.
Edited By: Andrea Rosales, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Jakob Svensson
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003323686/digital-ageism-andrea-rosales-mireia-fern%C3%A1ndez-ard%C3%A8vol-jakob-svensson
This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the design, development, and marketing of digital technologies and in the actual algorithms and datasets that constitute them. It also shows how individuals and institutions deal with digital ageism in everyday life.
In the past decades, digital technologies permeated most aspects of everyday life. With a focus on how age is represented and experienced in relation to digital technologies leading to digital ageism, digitalisation’s reinforcement of spirals of exclusion and loss of autonomy of some collectives is explored, when it could be natural for a great part of society and represent a sort of improvement.
The book addresses social science students and scholars interested in everyday digital technologies, society and the power struggles about it, providing insights from different parts of the globe. By using different methods and touching upon different aspects of digital ageism and how it plays out in contemporary connected data societies, this volume will raise awareness, challenge power, initiate discussions and spur further research into this field.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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