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Decolonising Data in the Age of Data Colonialism: An Interview with Professor Nick Couldry
EtkileşimIn May 2024, the Faculty of Communication at Üsküdar University hosted the 11th International Communication Symposium, which this year has been delineated on the overarching theme ‘Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism’.
Maria Pia Ester CRISTALDI
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Geographical Information: the Italian Scientific Associations and...the Big Tech
GEOmedia, 2022 The world is changing. The Italian Scientific Associations of Geographical Information are not. The opportunities are endless, but what is missing is humility and ideas, and often these two shortcomings feed off each other.
Valerio Zunino
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Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation
Big Data & SocietyThis paper introduces the concept of ‘oligopolistic platformisation’ to capture the specific dynamics of collaboration and competition between multinational upstream agribusinesses and Big Tech companies in the agricultural (ag) sector.
Monja Sauvagerd +2 more
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Free Speech is Incomplete? Big Tech in a Distant Mirror
Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory StudiesIn 1961, Alexander Meiklejohn claimed that the First Amendment, the US provision guaranteeing free speech, is an absolute. Echoing this in the context of the rise of fake news, Tim Wu has recently asked whether the First Amendment might have become ...
Jan Polański
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Political capitalism in the digital era: reconstructing the capital–state relation
Frontiers in Political ScienceThis article discusses the role of big tech in becoming an engine of capturing public power. We focus on tech capitalist classes and their determination to capture both the economic benefit and the political decision.
Filippa Chatzistavrou
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Big AI: Cloud infrastructure dependence and the industrialisation of artificial intelligence
Big Data & SocietyCritical scholars contend that ‘There is no AI without Big Tech’. This study delves into the substantial role played by major technology conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google (Alphabet), in the ‘industrialisation of artificial ...
Fernando van der Vlist +2 more
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Giving by Taking Away: Big Tech, Data Colonialism, and the Reconfiguration of Social Good
International Journal of Communication, 2021 Big Tech companies have recently led and financed projects that claim to use datafication for the “social good.” This article explores what kind of social good it is that this sort of datafication engenders.
João Carlos Magalhães, Nick Couldry
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The War of Big Tech: Production and Appropriation of Human Knowledge [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPFThe perception, widespread in our societies, that ‘there is no alternative’ stems from a historical development that has ended up constructing a mode of wealth production, political sovereignty and a form of knowledge centred around private appropriation.
Claudio COZZA, Salvatore PRINZI
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Qubahan Academic JournalOman's logistics scene is growing fast, driven by goals like Oman Vision 2040 and a plan to hit Net-Zero emissions by 2050. Because of this quick growth, keeping things sustainable isn't just a rule; it's super important.
Saif Alhinai +2 more
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Ziraa'ah: Majalah Ilmiah Pertanian, 2015 The effect of this research to know management / celery farming management is sighted from technical aspect and to know big cost, acceptance and income of celery farming at Silvan Sei Binjai's Filter.
Bahrun Bahrun
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