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academic
academic capitalism see See capitalism
academic hegemons 50
academic imperialism see See imperialism
academic power see See power
activism
activist-privacy nexus 125
climate activism 133
data activism 30, 34, 37
digital activism 125, 127–130, 138–139
migrant solidarity activism 133
political activism 129, 132, 170
prodemocracy activists 174–175, 179
queer activism 133
slacktivism 129, 169
ad
advertisement / advertising 91, 105–107, 237, 239
advertorials 106
commercial advertising 105, 107–108
Adyen 252
Africa 24, 46, 56, 238
algorithm
algorithm governance see See governance
algorithm regulations 184–185, 199
algorithmic bias see See bias
algorithmic discrimination 232, 238, 242
algorithmic governmentality 59, 91, 02
algorithmic interpolation 95, 97, 99
algorithmic recommendation service 185, 199
algorithmic systems 22, 24, 198
machine learning algorithm 231, 238, 283
platform algorithm 91, 93–96, 98–99
Alibaba 190, 193
Alphabet 86–87, 93
Google 25, 52, 67, 87, 93, 112, 213, 231, 232, 253, 282
Alexa 90, 235
Amazon 67, 86, 90, 92–95, 235
anglicisation 51, 276
Apple 86, 95–96, 235, 253
Apps 78, 86, 235
Arab spring 168–169
arena
global arena 34, 50, 51
public arena 139, 210
artificial intelligence (AI)
AI chatbots 229, 234
AI governance 184–186, 199, 200, 201
AI innovation 184, 193, 197
AI policy / policies 185, 237
AI winter 228
gendered AI 234
attention
attention hijacking 145, 147, 149, 152, 158, 161, 197
attention trigger 97n, 97–99
audience
audience backlash 217–219
authoritarian(ism) 34, 70, 130, 132, 167, 168
automatic language processing advisory committee (ALPAC) 278
autonomy 46, 53–57, 59, 87, 126–127, 195, 286
ban 74, 77–78, 166, 180
beauty
beauty ideals 106, 109, 238
beauty norms 109, 110
beauty premium 110
beauty standards 105, 109, 110, 116, 239
bias
algorithmic bias 13, 238
explicit bias 256
gender bias 238, 252–253, 256, 262, 264–267
implicit bias 253, 256, 258, 264
social bias 228
societal bias 263, 289
systematic bias 193
unconscious bias 256
body
body image 109, 110, 112–113, 115, 117
body positivity 109
Booking.com 252
Brandy Melville 105, 110–111
Budapest Open Access Initiative 50
Buddhism 73
capitalism
academic capitalism 44, 48, 51
data capitalism 130
digital capitalism 58
platform capitalism 68
surveillance capitalism 24, 68, 130–131, 196, 234
Critical Data Studies (CDS) 21–26, 29–33, 35–40
celebrity
celebrity culture 110, 116
celebrity effect 114
celebrity images 115
celebrity style 112–113
internet celebrity 106
microcelebrity 106, 209, 210–212, 214–215, 217, 219–225
censorship
censorship policy / policies 169
self-censorship 129, 210, 212–213, 221
ChatGPT 37, 228, 237–238, 283, 287
Chile 47–48, 56
China 54, 59, 86, 105–110, 113–114, 116, 138, 184–190, 192–194, 196–201, 236
civilisation / civilization 25, 191
climate change 25–26, 29, 34
CLOVA 241
collective
collective action 129, 166, 168–169
collective identity 26, 155, 186
collective power 58
colonialism
data colonialism 24, 66, 68, 72
decolonial 68–69
historical colonialism 67
neo-colonial 51
postcolonial 68–69, 169
tech colonialism 25
commerce
e-commerce 105–106
communication
communication sovereignty see See sovereignty
corporate communication 37
International Communication Association 49
political communication 167
public communication 57, 187
telecommunication 66, 71, 169, 173
community
academic community 54, 56, 60
community formation 37
global community 73
competition 46
computational approaches / methods 22, 36, 37, 38, 39, 167, 180, 230, 273, 278
conflict
armed conflict 144
connectivity
digital connectivity 35
global connectivity 29
mobile connectivity 71
platform connectivity 67
constrained cultural transduction 275
content
content creation / creator 105, 168, 171–173, 176, 209, 213, 217–218, 221, 237
content generation 184
content moderation / content moderator 73–74, 77, 180
content production 57, 209, 216, 224
copyright
copyright violation 239, 240
cosmopolitan
cosmopolitan interdependencies 26
cosmopolitan sociology 25
cosmopolitanism 21, 25–32, 34–36, 39
COVID-19 (pandemic) 28, 53, 173, 193
creativity 285–286
culture
consumer culture 111
digital culture 25, 105–106, 108, 123, 137, 229
influencer culture 108, 113, 115
platform culture 216, 220, 224
surveillance culture 85, 89, 98–99
workplace culture 266
customer
customer divergence 107
cyber
cyberconflict 35
cyberculture 212
cyber-harassment 138
Danish 274
data
big data 23, 24, 31–32, 38, 67, 74–77, 194, 228, 231
biometric data 86, 96
data activism see See activism
data capture 123–124, 137
data circulation 87, 89
data collection 36, 45, 85, 87, 99, 131, 134, 277
data colonialism see See colonialism
data divide see See divide
data donation 38
data exploitation 25
data extraction 70
data feminism see See feminism
data governance see See governance
data justice 30
data theft 35
data world 89, 91, 92, 98
datafication 34–35, 85
datafied indifference 137
digital data 23, 28, 85
metadata 45, 50, 52, 54, 58, 112, 145, 149, 172
user data 52, 86–87, 88n, 90, 93, 95, 98–99, 107, 290
Deepl 137, 286
defamation 239
degradation 50
democracy 53, 132, 166, 170, 233, 273
dependence
asymmetric dependence 50
Dependency Theory 47
independence 54, 57, 59, 132, 146, 219
interdependence 26–27, 31, 275
de-statization 51, 53
determinism 131, 191, 195
developmentalist 185–187, 189, 193, 196
dewesternization 21
digital
digital culture see See culture
digital data see See data
digital divide see See divide
digital economy 53, 198
digital exclusion 52
digital gateway 56
digital governance see See governance
digital infrastructure 77
digital knowledge 58
digital literacy see See literacy
digital media see See media
digital platforms see See platform
digital policy / policies see See policy
digital realm 56, 138
digital society 22, 24, 191
digital sovereignty see See sovereignty
digital Terrae Nullus see See Terrae Nullus
digitalization 45
discrimination
gender(-based) discrimination 242, 257
sexual discrimination 242n
sociocultural discrimination 231–232, 238, 242
disinformation 168, 228, 233
diversity
cultural diversity 47
diversity hire 264
gender diversity 251
global diversity 26
divide
big data divide 67
digital divide 53–54, 72
dysmorphia
Snapchat dysmorphia 109
dystopia 194, 196
East Asia 24, 108, 173, 239
economic
economic capital 115
economic crisis 51
economic imperialism see See imperialism
economic power 110
economic stagnation 48
emoji 144, 146, 152–155, 158–161, 172, 177–178
emoji-hashtag see See hashtag
engagement 34, 66, 133, 136, 144–145, 149, 150, 152, 154, 160–162, 167–169, 172–173, 177–178, 211, 214, 285
English 38, 45, 48, 50, 73–74, 111, 130, 169, 171, 180, 231, 260, 275–276, 278–279, 283, 285–291, 292, 294
Environment, Society and Governance (ESG) 192
European Union (EU) 28, 38, 185n, 240
expression
self-expression 116, 136, 209, 218, 219
extractivism 69
Facebook 66–67, 69, 70–78, 88, 91, 123, 129, 166–180
facial recognition 193, 231, 237, 238
feed 88, 91, 237
feminism
anti-feminist 231–232
data feminism 24
feminisation 235
feminist 21, 125, 133, 229, 232, 242
she-economy 106
women’s empowerment 133
framing 33, 72, 109, 214, 216, 219–221, 224
freedom 36, 53, 95, 129, 132, 157, 192, 209, 210, 212
French 57, 85, 285, 286
Gatebox 241
gender
gender bias see See bias
gender discrimination see See discrimination
gender disparity 251, 253
gender diversity see See diversity
gender equality 251, 266–267
gender gap 229, 251–254, 256, 258, 261, 263–264, 266–267
gender identity see See identity
gender inequality see See inequality
gender norms 251
gender parity 252
gender ratio 107, 253, 257
gender stereotypes see See stereotype
genocide 66, 73, 158
German 277n, 285
gisting 275, 293
global
global arena 34, 50, 51
global inequality 25
Global North 24, 30, 50, 73, 86
global politics 51
global ranking systems 48, 55
Global South 21, 24, 30, 33–35, 38, 49, 50, 60, 66, 69, 72–73, 86, 129
global transformation 23, 30
globalisation 27–29, 267, 280
Google. see See Alphabet
governance
AI-governance 184–186, 199, 200
algorithm governance 198
data governance 24, 33, 198
digital governance 52
governmentality 89–92, 98, 189
self-governance 89
gynoids 237
hacking 35
hashtag / #
#EndSARS 129
#fyp 150
#metoo 242n
co-hashtag 147, 149–153, 159–161
cross-hashtagging 145–146, 149, 151–152, 154
emoji-hashtag 145, 147
hashflags 148, 152–154, 157–158, 161
hashtag publics 146, 148
hashtag-emoji 152
hierarchy
hierarchisation / hierarchization 51
homogenization 51, 110, 116, 288
human right 33, 59, 72–73, 75, 133, 170, 174
hype 23, 186, 283, 289
ICT 190, 263
identity
gender identity 255
identity construction 134–136
personal identity 127
IFIs (international financing institutions) 48
imitator 114
imperialism
academic imperialism 46, 48, 50
colonial imperialism 54
cultural imperialism 47–48, 50, 280, 287, 292
digital imperialism 54
economic imperialism 50–51
epistemic imperialism 45, 50
intellectual imperialism 44
technological imperialism 59
impression
impression management 213, 215, 217, 222, 224–225
industrialisation / industrialization 188, 242
inequality
financial inequality 255
gender inequality 252
global inequality 25
social inequality 232
structural inequality 44
influencer 88, 105–108, 111–117, 147, 152–153, 157, 211, 215, 217
Instagram 88, 91, 137, 217, 221, 240
integrity
contextual integrity 124–125, 127, 134, 136–139
journalistic integrity 132
intelligentisation 189
interface 27, 86, 94, 171, 286
Internet
Internet control 166
Internet law 210
Internet of things 188, 228
interpellation 85, 95–99
interpolation 95–99
Italy 168
Japan 176, 229n, 229–230, 236–243, 240n
journalist / journalism
journalistic integrity 132
juxtaposition 153, 158
language models 50, 74, 228, 273n, 282–283, 288, 289, 293
Latin America 24, 44–56, 58–60
learning
deep learning 228, 230, 233, 284
human-like learning 230
machine learning 24, 172, 228, 230–232, 238, 276–277, 283–284
Leiden Manifesto 52
LGBT(Q)I+ 133, 212, 242n, 254
liberalism
market-liberal 25
neoliberal (economic) policies 46, 48, 60
neoliberal globalization 45, 48
neoliberal logic 48
neoliberal principles 48
neoliberalism 48, 132
lingua franca 45, 48, 50, 65, 276
LinkedIn 97, 97n, 258
literacy
data literacy 127, 130, 136, 139
digital literacy 60, 75–76
Majority World 46, 49, 59
manipulation 45, 93, 170, 233
marginalisation / marginalization
marginalized (social) group 21, 30, 124, 133, 192, 231
Marx(ist) 131, 195, 196
media
digital media 31–32, 35, 37–38, 44, 106–107, 113, 167–169
mass media 46, 210, 215, 231n
media ecology 87–89, 91–92, 94n, 95–98, 106, 113
media independence 132
media journalist 128
media technology 31–32, 87–88
social media platform 38, 85, 91, 97, 116, 130, 167, 194, 196, 217, 220
meme
counter-memes 148
memefication 161
memetic weaponization 148
Meta 89, 91, 285n
metropolis 69, 197
Microsoft 52, 86–87, 97, 231–232, 235, 253
Tay-AI 232
mobile
mobile connectivity see See connectivity
mobile penetration 169
modulation 87
Mohalla 86
monitoring
self-monitoring 253
Monroe Doctrine 47
movement
social movement 128–129, 168–169, 186, 215, 220
Myanmar 66–78, 166–173, 175–180
nationalism
transnationalism 26, 28–29
Natural Language Processing (NLP) 38, 74, 282
net neutrality 71, 83
Netherlands 244, 251–252, 267, 280, 291–292
network
global network 33
New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) 47
news
news portal 170
online
online footprint 193
opinion
opinion leader 115
public opinion 76, 115, 168, 240, 242
peace
peace negotiations 70
periphery 44–45, 49, 68–69, 72, 274, 291–292
platform
digital platforms 46, 52, 57–58, 73, 106, 108, 123–124, 129, 133, 135, 136, 139, 197
platform algorithm see See algorithm
platform capitalism see See capitalism
platform connectivity 67
platform ecosystem 87, 88n, 89, 91, 93, 96, 99, 197
platform infrastructure 91
social media platform see See media
policy
AI (governance) policy 185, 199
censorship policy 169
content policy 180
data policy 37
digital policy 44, 59, 60
Digital Sovereignty Policy 54, 59
economic policy 48
national policy 27–28, 193
platform policy 129, 139
policy announcement 67
policy making / policymaking 200, 240, 242, 252
policymakers 185, 291
public policy 44, 58, 59
social policy 48, 251
politics
political actor 73
political alignment 213
political engagement 167, 211, 214
political overthrow 166
political practices 69
political transformation see See transformation
political unrest 167, 180
politicisation 32, 37, 214
pornography 233, 239, 240n
power
academic power 49
asymmetric power 44
imperial power 66
power dynamics 23, 45, 229, 261, 266, 274
power imbalances 256, 257, 266
power practice 88, 98
power shift 45
processing power 74
social power 106, 115
pragmatism 44, 59
prejudice 89, 263
priming 94, 214–218, 223, 224, 288
privacy
informational privacy 123–126, 128–129, 133
privacy expectations 127
privacy norms 124–125, 127–128, 138–139
privacy perception 129, 134
productivity 72, 188–189, 195, 200, 275, 280, 284
promotion
promotion tactic 113, 115
promotional strategies 114
prompt
platform-prompted 94
propaganda 144–147, 149–150, 154–155, 157–161
protection
(General) Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 131, 290
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) 131
Data Security Law (DSL) 198
Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) 198
Turkish law on Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) 132
racialization 235
ranking system 48, 51–52
realism 27
regulation
self-regulation 192–193
reorganization 48
resistance 50, 71, 77, 83, 129, 149, 154
revolution
Cuban Revolution 47
ritual 96–98, 97n, 148
Russia 54, 59, 86, 144–150, 152–155, 157–161, 233, 278, 287
San Francisco Declaration 52
science
science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators 51, 56
scientific associations 49
scientific communities 50
Scopus 45
search engine 93, 170, 232
secondary orality 145, 147–148, 151–152, 158–161
self-construction 127
sex-
robo-sexism 237–238
sexism 233, 242
sexual discrimination 242n
sexual harassment 241, 255
sexual objectification 236
sexual politics 229–230, 237–238, 242–243
sexual violence 229, 233–234, 236, 239, 242
shining through phenomenon 281
Signal 78, 129
social
social capital 117
social equity 251
social formations 21, 29, 33
social interactions 21–22, 24, 26–28, 31
social justice 59, 196
social media platform see See media
social misery 48
social order 186, 189
social phenomenon 28, 39
social power see See power
social reality 31
social transformations see See transformation
social wellbeing 45, 193
solutionism 67, 191
Sony 229n, 240
sound-linking 146, 148
South Korea 186, 236
sovereignty
communication sovereignty 59
digital sovereignty 44–46, 52, 54, 56, 59
epistemic sovereignty 45, 50–52, 54–55, 58–59
monarchical sovereignty 57
Soviet Union 46, 48
spam 179
Spanish 45, 93–94, 275, 285
Sphere
global sphere 21, 28
STEM 197, 251–252, 254–255, 257
stereotype
gender stereotype 235
national stereotype 147, 155
sticker 144, 157–159
stratification
stratified data 92–95, 94n, 98
surveillance
digital surveillance 77, 137
hostile surveillance 210
mass surveillance 25
surveillance capitalism 24, 68, 130, 234
surveillance cultures 85–86, 89, 98, 137, 196
sustainable 58–59, 192
Swedish 274
Swiftian 277
Taobao 113
technology
technology framing 32–33
technology of power 90–91
technology trend 25, 39
transnational technology 45
Tencent 86, 108, 191, 192
Terrae nullus
digital terrae nullus 67, 78
terrorism 25–26
theory
dependency theory 47
TikTok 78, 145–150, 152, 154, 160–161, 217
WarTok 144, 146, 152, 159, 161–162
transformation
cultural transformation 53
digital transformation 24, 52
global transformation 23, 30
political transformation 26
self-transformation 91
social / societal transformation 31
transnational transformation 34
translation
automated translation 273, 273n, 276, 278, 283–285, 287–289, 292–293
computer-aided translation 279–280
machine translation 273, 275–276, 278–279, 281–288, 289, 291–293, 294n
statistical machine translation 282, 286
translation automation 280
translation production 285
translation reception 285
trigger 27, 85, 97n, 97–99, 161, 166, 189, 266
troll 158, 210
Turkey 123–125, 129, 132–134, 136–139, 209, 210, 212–213, 215, 222, 225
Twitter / X 38, 78, 123, 130, 139, 209, 210–224, 232
Ukraine 144–148, 150, 152–155, 158–161
UNESCO 47
United Kingdom (UK) 47
United States 44, 46–49, 51, 54, 56, 59, 176, 225, 240, 278
urbanisation / urbanization 193
user
user agreement 86
user data 52, 86–87, 88n, 90, 93, 95, 98–99, 107, 290
user desire 94
violence
epistemic violence 51
gender-based violence 232
genocidal violence 73
sexual violence 229, 232–234, 236, 239, 242, 242n
VK 86
Wanghong 106
watchdog 210
web scraping 37
WeChat 86
Weltliteratur 291–292
window dressing 231
World War II 46, 276
Xiaohongshu 105–108, 110–117
Zhongcao 106–107, 116

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Technology, Power and Society

Critical Perspectives on the Global Digital Transformation

Series:  Technology, Power & Society, Volume: 1
Cover Technology, Power and Society
E-Book ISBN:
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
21 Jul 2025
  • Subjects
    • Social Sciences
      • Critical Social Sciences
      • Sociology & Anthropology
      • Cultural Studies
      • Gender Studies
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Concepts
Chapter 1 Cosmopolitan Critical Data Studies
Chapter 2 Digital and Epistemic Sovereignty in the Science Ecosystem in Latin America
Chapter 3 Experimenting on the Frontier: Imperial Laboratories and Facebook’s Political Effects in Myanmar
Chapter 4 From Datafication to Interpellation: Becoming a Data Subject in Contemporary Surveillance Cultures
Part 2 Digital Cultures and Digital Politics
Chapter 5 ‘BM Girl’ Influencers on Xiaohongshu: Tracing Beauty Discourse, Social Media Challenges, and Consumption Practices in Chinese Society
Chapter 6 Privacy Expectations and Norms: Perceptions of Individual Digital Activists in Turkey’s Xsphere (Twittersphere)
Chapter 7 Detouring, Rerouting, Weaponization: The Secondary Orality of WarTok
Chapter 8 Making Sense of Post-coup Myanmar through Facebook
Chapter 9 Artificial Intelligence Governance Made in China: Negotiating Imaginaries and Power
Part 3 Inequalities, Resistance and Alternatives
Chapter 10 “With great power comes great responsibility”: Lending Visibility to Risky Political Content
Chapter 11 Artificial Intelligence’s Sexual Politics: Three Modes and the Case of Japan
Chapter 12 The Tech Gender Gap: A Closer Look at Women’s Experiences in the Technology Industry
Chapter 13 Beyond the Strictest Computation of the General Proportion
Back Matter
Index

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