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Technology, Power and Society
Critical Perspectives on the Global Digital Transformation
Series: - Technology, Power & Society, Volume: 1
Technology, Power and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Global Digital Transformation offers a critical exploration of how digitalization, datafication, and automation impact societies worldwide, with a particular focus on underrepresented and understudied contexts. This interdisciplinary volume unpacks the sociopolitical dynamics of new technologies, investigating their potential to empower, disrupt, and transform social structures across varied cultural landscapes. The book takes a broad view at various critical issues pertaining to digital media technologies and the socio-cultural challenges that come with their rise: How do big tech platforms try to dominate Internet access in the Global South? To what extent can they offer ways for resistance, where do they post risks for activists? How do current technology discourses maintain gender stereotypes and imbalances? How do visions of AI differ between political cultures? And how can we develop methodologies capable of capturing the complexity of global technology trends and their local manifestations? By bringing together global perspectives, this collection moves beyond conventional narratives to foster a nuanced understanding of how digital transformations both challenge and reshape local contexts.
Dennis Nguyen is an assistant professor for digital literacy and digital methods at Utrecht University. His research concerns critical data studies, public epistemology, and computational methods for researching media.
Jing Zeng is an assistant professor of computational social and communication science at University of Zurich. Her research concerns social implications of emerging digital technologies and methodology development.
Bruce Mutsvairo is a professor and chair of media, politics and the Global South at Utrecht University.
Jing Zeng is an assistant professor of computational social and communication science at University of Zurich. Her research concerns social implications of emerging digital technologies and methodology development.
Bruce Mutsvairo is a professor and chair of media, politics and the Global South at Utrecht University.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âDennis Nguyen, Bruce Mutsvairo and Jing Zeng
âPart 1
Concepts
1 Cosmopolitan Critical Data Studies
âDennis Nguyen
2 Digital and Epistemic Sovereignty in the Science Ecosystem in Latin America
âThaiane Oliveira, Afonso de Albuquerque and Tatiane Mendes
3 Experimenting on the Frontier: Imperial Laboratories and Facebookâs Political Effects in Myanmar
âStefan Bächtold
4 From Datafication to Interpellation Becoming a Data Subject in Contemporary Surveillance Cultures
âBjorn Beijnon
âPart 2
Digital Cultures and Digital Politics
5 âBM Girlâ Influencers on Xiaohongshu: Tracing Beauty Discourse, Social Media Challenges, and Consumption Practices in Chinese Society
âShen Sijun and Crystal Abidin
6 Privacy Expectations and Norms: Perceptions of Individual Digital Activists in Turkeyâs Xsphere (Twittersphere)
âYusuf YüksekdaÄ and Sarper DurmuÅ
7 Detouring, Rerouting, Weaponization: Memetic Soundscapes and the Secondary Orality of WarTok
âMarloes Geboers, Daria Del and Elena Pilipets
8 Making Sense of Post-Coup Myanmar through Facebook
âPaula Romero Jiménez, Ana Melchor Pérez, Siebe Dekker, Miguel Oliveira Royo and Jing Zeng
9 Artificial Intelligence Governance Made in China: Negotiating Imaginaries and Power
âYishu Mao
âPart 3
Inequalities, Resistance and Alternatives
10 âWith great power comes great responsibilityâ: Lending Visibility to Risky Political Content
âÃzlem Demirkol Tønnesen
11 Artificial Intelligenceâs Sexual Politics: Three Modes and the Case of Japan
âHiromi Tanaka and Michelle H. S. Ho
12 The Tech Gender Gap: A Closer Look at Womenâs Experiences in the Technology Industry
âJulia Luteijn and Rhied Al-Othmani
13 Beyond the Strictest Computation of the General Proportion
âGys-Walt Van Egdom and Christophe Declercq
Index
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âDennis Nguyen, Bruce Mutsvairo and Jing Zeng
âPart 1
Concepts
1 Cosmopolitan Critical Data Studies
âDennis Nguyen
2 Digital and Epistemic Sovereignty in the Science Ecosystem in Latin America
âThaiane Oliveira, Afonso de Albuquerque and Tatiane Mendes
3 Experimenting on the Frontier: Imperial Laboratories and Facebookâs Political Effects in Myanmar
âStefan Bächtold
4 From Datafication to Interpellation Becoming a Data Subject in Contemporary Surveillance Cultures
âBjorn Beijnon
âPart 2
Digital Cultures and Digital Politics
5 âBM Girlâ Influencers on Xiaohongshu: Tracing Beauty Discourse, Social Media Challenges, and Consumption Practices in Chinese Society
âShen Sijun and Crystal Abidin
6 Privacy Expectations and Norms: Perceptions of Individual Digital Activists in Turkeyâs Xsphere (Twittersphere)
âYusuf YüksekdaÄ and Sarper DurmuÅ
7 Detouring, Rerouting, Weaponization: Memetic Soundscapes and the Secondary Orality of WarTok
âMarloes Geboers, Daria Del and Elena Pilipets
8 Making Sense of Post-Coup Myanmar through Facebook
âPaula Romero Jiménez, Ana Melchor Pérez, Siebe Dekker, Miguel Oliveira Royo and Jing Zeng
9 Artificial Intelligence Governance Made in China: Negotiating Imaginaries and Power
âYishu Mao
âPart 3
Inequalities, Resistance and Alternatives
10 âWith great power comes great responsibilityâ: Lending Visibility to Risky Political Content
âÃzlem Demirkol Tønnesen
11 Artificial Intelligenceâs Sexual Politics: Three Modes and the Case of Japan
âHiromi Tanaka and Michelle H. S. Ho
12 The Tech Gender Gap: A Closer Look at Womenâs Experiences in the Technology Industry
âJulia Luteijn and Rhied Al-Othmani
13 Beyond the Strictest Computation of the General Proportion
âGys-Walt Van Egdom and Christophe Declercq
Index
This book is especially relevant for students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of critical media studies, digital media research, and globalisation studies.