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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data‐driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing markets shape asset inequalities and middle‐class formation in South Africa.
Julien Migozzi
wiley   +1 more source

No. 63: Dystopia and Disengagement: Diaspora Attitudes Towards South Africa [PDF]

, 2012
In 2008, South African Brandon Huntley was given refugee status in Canada by the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB). The unprecedented decision, based on Huntley’s claim that as a white South African he was the victim of racial persecution in ...
Crush, Jonathan
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

Sociolinguistics II: Deviance, Dystopia, And Democracy (LING82) Syllabus [PDF]

, 2018
This course builds upon foundational concepts in sociolinguistic theory to examine discourses of news and entertainment media, across science fiction and politics.
Thomas, Jamie A.
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Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds [PDF]

, 2020
This paper introduces “infrastructural speculations,” an orientation toward speculative design that considers the complex and long-lived relationships of technologies with broader systems, beyond moments of immediate invention and design.
Bennett Cynthia L., Bleecker Julian, Bowker Geoffrey C., Bowker Geoffrey C., Broll Gregor, Brown H. Claire, Chalmers Matthew, Coulton Paul, Daniela, DiSalvo Carl, Dourish Paul, Dunne Anthony, Dunne Anthony, Dunne Anthony, Escobar Arturo, Eubanks Virginia, Forlano Laura, Foster Nick, Fox Sarah E., Fox Sarah E., Friedman Batya, Goodman Nelson, Haraway Donna, Husserl Edmund, Khovanskaya Vera, Kriplean Travis, Luiza Prado, Luiza Prado, Lynch Michael, Mazé Ramia, Mitman Gregg, Moran Thomas P., Nathan Lisa P., Oliveira Pedro, Pedro, Peter, Raven Paul Graham, Richmond, Richmond, Richmond, Schutz Alfred, Schutz Alfred, Starosielski Nicole, Stead Michael, Steven, Stuart Geiger R., Vertesi Janet, Winner Langdon, Wong Richmond   +48 more
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Tales of Cyberspace and Artificial Intelligence: Diverging Stakeholderships?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the evolution of the Internet from the 1990s to the 2020s and compares it with the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly following the public launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. It identifies both parallels and divergencies between these two overlapping technological domains, focusing on the growing ...
Johan Eriksson, Giampiero Giacomello
wiley   +1 more source

Content analysis of Dutch newspaper coverage of three tobacco control policies, 2017–2019

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives News media coverage can influence support for and implementation of tobacco control policies. This research aims to analyse and compare newspaper coverage of newly implemented policies: a substantial tobacco tax increase, point-of-sale display
Floor A Van den Brand, Gera E Nagelhout, Marc C Willemsen, Anna B Gilmore, Nikita L Poole, Barbara van Straaten   +5 more
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
wiley   +1 more source

Pandemic Fictions: Covid-19 and the Cultures of Dystopia

Sillages Critiques, 2022
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, dystopian imaginaries have been used to describe both the threat posed by the virus and the public health restrictions implemented to contain its spread.
Sean Mark
doaj   +1 more source