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Global Digital Culture| Digital Labor Studies Go Global: Toward a Digital Decolonial Turn
International Journal of Communication, 2017 This article elucidates the global dimensions of digital labor. The field of study touching on platform-based activities has scaled up to reflect the increasing reliance of digital economies on supply chains outsourcing tasks to developing and emerging ...
Antonio A. Casilli
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira +2 more
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Bandung and the Future Of Africa’s Pasts
AJIL UnboundThe idea of decolonization that animated the spirit of the 1955 Bandung Conference continues to power imaginations of an alternative to the world Bandung inhabited.
Rabiat Akande, Olufemi Elias
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DISCOURSE OF INFLUENCERS IN CONDITIONS OF PLATFORM IMPERIALISM
Political Expertise: POLITEXThe purpose of this article is to identify the features of influencers’ discourse in the conditions of platform imperialism using the example of the reaction to the start of a special military operation. The author demonstrates the dynamics of the formation of the categorical apparatus in theories of imperialism from the moment the term appeared to the
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Towards Global Dialogism: Transcending 'Cultural Imperialism' and it's Critics
, 2016 Cultural studies have developed from a domestic stage into the present international platform, and a new theoretical framework is accordingly demanded. In other words, international cultural studies should have its own theoretical platform corresponding ...
Jin, Huimin
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Peace and the Barrel of the Gun in the Internationalist Women’s Movement, 1945–49
, 2019 In 1949, at a conference instigated by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) held in Beijing, China, the Asian Women’s Conference solidified an anticolonial, antifascist, and antiracist theory for organizing women transnationally.
Armstrong, Elisabeth
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Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
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The Rise of Platform Empires: Sociality as Mass Deception [PDF]
, 2019 The Cambridge Analytica ‘scandal’ revealed the collection of mass amounts of data not only from willing Facebook participants, but also from their non-consenting Facebook friends.
Sujon, Zoetanya
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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
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APP IMPERIALISM: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE CANADIAN APP STORE
, 2018 In this paper, we introduce the notion of app imperialism by exploring the political economy of the Canadian iOS App Store. Building on Dal Yong Jin's concept of "platform imperialism", we argue that US companies dominate global app stores through the ...
Young, Chris +2 more
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