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Politics Recoded - The Infrastructural Organizing Of Code For America

by Aure Schrock

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 The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology''s impact on society.For decades, tens of thousands of volunteers and employees of Code for America have taken a different path to institutional change: through designing and implementing infrastructure. In Politics Recoded, Aure Schrock employs a robust, organizational ethnography to analyze how Code for America''s infrastructural organizing changed how politics get exercised, showing how we citizens can work directly with the government on projects to improve our collective livelihoods. Drawing from theories of organizing, social infrastructure, racialized organizations, technical cultures, and intersectionality, Schrock argues that our "post-techlash society" must no longer presume that corporate platforms or social networks can level social inequities. An underrecognized yet influential organization, Code for America emerged from a tech culture background that prioritized networks and publicity over the long, slow work of institutional change. But its evolution demonstrates how to push beyond the fundamental flaws of tech-forward organizing. This, the first history of Code for America, shows how promoting agentic citizenship and brokering in empathy let the organization influence policy at all levels of government—and demonstrates why we need to bolster institutions to ensure that everyone is justly represented and receiving the benefits. Appealing to those in political science, communication, and information studies, Politics Recoded will empower practitioners and activists to revolutionize technological design and participate in alternative forms of civic engagement.
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Living With Algorithms - Agency And User Culture In Costa Rica

by Ignacio Siles

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 A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it''s like to live in a datafied world.We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mundane practices, and to many, their control over our lives seems absolute. In Living with Algorithms, Ignacio Siles critically challenges this view by surveying user dynamics in the global south across three algorithmic platforms—Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok—and finds, surprisingly, a more balanced relationship. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that privileges the user over the corporate, Siles examines the personal relationships that have formed between users and algorithms as Latin Americans have integrated these systems into the structures of everyday life, enacted them ritually, participated in public with and through them, and thwarted them. Sometimes users follow algorithms, Siles finds, and sometimes users resist them. At times, users do both. Agency lies in the navigation of the spaces in-between. By analyzing what we do with algorithms rather than what algorithms do to us, Living with Algorithms clarifies the debate over the future of datafication and whether we have a say in its development. Concentrating on an understudied region of the global south, the book provides a new perspective on the commonalities and differences among users within a global ecology of technologies.
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Technology Of The Oppressed - Inequity And The Digital Mundane In Favelas Of Brazil

by David Nemer

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 How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world.Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don''t just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences with digital technologies enable them to navigate both digital and nondigital sources of oppression—and even, at times, to flourish.Nemer uses a decolonial and intersectional framework called Mundane Technology as an analytical tool to understand how digital technologies can simultaneously be sites of oppression and tools in the fight for freedom. Building on the work of the Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, he shows how the favela residents appropriate everyday technologies—technological artifacts (cell phones, Facebook), operations (repair), and spaces (Telecenters and Lan Houses)—and use them to alleviate the oppression in their everyday lives. He also addresses the relationship of misinformation to radicalization and the rise of the new far right. Contrary to the simplistic techno-optimistic belief that technology will save the poor, even with access to technology these marginalized people face numerous sources of oppression, including technological biases, racism, classism, sexism, and censorship. Yet the spirit, love, community, resilience, and resistance of favela residents make possible their pursuit of freedom.
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Politics Of Dating Apps - Gender, Sexuality, And Emergent Publics In Urban China

by Lik Sam Chan

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 An examination of dating app culture in China, across user demographics—straight women, straight men, queer women, and queer men.In this exploration of dating app culture in China, Lik Sam Chan argues that these popular mobile apps are not merely a platform for personal relationships but also an emerging arena for gender and queer politics. Chan examines the opportunities dating apps present for women''s empowerment and men''s performances of masculinity, and he links experiences of queer dating app users with their vulnerable position as sexual minorities. He finds that dating apps are both portals to an exciting virtual world of relational possibilities and sites of power dynamics that reflect the heteronormativity and patriarchy of Chinese society. Drawing on in-depth interviews with urban users of such dating apps as Momo, Tantan, Blued, Aloha, Rela, and Lesdo, Chan proposes "networked sexual publics" as a unifying concept to capture the dynamics of dating app culture. Devoting a chapter to each of four publics—straight women, straight men, queer men, and queer women—Chan documents how relationships are shaped and transfigured by this emerging technology. He considers whether dating apps can be a feminist tool; explores straight men''s self-presentation on the apps and their interactions with women they meet there; discusses the constant cycle of deleting and installing the same apps seen among queer men; and examines how popular lesbian dating apps may connect queer women to their communities. Finally, Chan maps possible paths for future intersectional, queer, and feminist scholarship on emerging communication technologies.
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Hacker States

by Adam Fish e Luca Follis

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 How hackers and hacking moved from being a target of the state to a key resource for the expression and deployment of state power.
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Weaving The Dark Web - Legitimacy On Freenet, Tor, And I2p

by Robert W. Gehl

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 An exploration of the Dark Web--websites accessible only with special routing software--that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.
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Authors, Users, And Pirates - Copyright Law And Subjectivity

by James Meese

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 An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework.
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After Access - Inclusion, Development, And A More Mobile Internet

by Jonathan Donner

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 An expert considers the effects of a more mobile Internet on socioeconomic development and digital inclusion, examining both potentialities and constraints.
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Opening Standards - The Global Politics Of Interoperability

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 The economic and political stakes in the current heated debates over "openness" and open standards in the Internet's architecture.
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Interfaces On Trial 2.0

by Jonathan Band e Masanobu Katoh

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 The debate over the use of copyright law to prevent competition and interoperability in the global software industry.
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Protecting Children Online? - Cyberbullying Policies Of Social Media Companies

by Tijana Milosevic

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 A critical examination of efforts by social media companies—including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram—to rein in cyberbullying by young users.High-profile cyberbullying cases often trigger exaggerated public concern about children''s use of social media. Large companies like Facebook respond by pointing to their existing anti-bullying mechanisms or coordinate with nongovernmental organizations to organize anti-cyberbullying efforts. Do these attempts at self-regulation work? In this book, Tijana Milosevic examines the effectiveness of efforts by social media companies—including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and Instagram—to rein in cyberbullying by young users. Milosevic analyzes the anti-bullying policies of fourteen major social media companies, as recorded in companies'' corporate documents, draws on interviews with company representatives and e-safety experts, and details the roles of nongovernmental organizations examining their ability to provide critical independent advice. She draws attention to lack of transparency in how companies handle bullying cases, emphasizing the need for a continuous independent evaluation of effectiveness of companies'' mechanisms, especially from children''s perspective. Milosevic argues that cyberbullying should be viewed in the context of children''s rights and as part of the larger social problem of the culture of humiliation.Milosevic looks into five digital bullying cases related to suicides, examining the pressures on the social media companies involved, the nature of the public discussion, and subsequent government regulation that did not necessarily address the problem in a way that benefits children. She emphasizes the need not only for protection but also for participation and empowerment—for finding a way to protect the vulnerable while ensuring the child''s right to participate in digital spaces.
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Digital Countercultures And The Struggle For Community

by Jessa Lingel

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 How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use.
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Pirate Politics - The New Information Policy Contests

by Patrick Burkart

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 An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.
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Digital Rights Movement - The Role Of Technology In Subverting Digital Copyright

by Hector Postigo

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 The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.
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Reputation Society - How Online Opinions Are Reshaping The Offline World

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 Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.
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End Of Ownership - Personal Property In The Digital Economy

by Aaron Perzanowski e Jason Schultz

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 An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we "buy" in the digital marketplace.
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World Made Meme - Public Conversations And Participatory Media

by Ryan M. Milner

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 How memetic media--aggregate texts that are collectively created, circulated, and transformed--become a part of public conversations that shape broader cultural debates.
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Hacker States

by Adam (Leverhulme Research Fellowã‚Â , Lancaster University) Fish e Luca (Lecturer In Criminology, Lancaster University) Follis

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 How hackers and hacking moved from being a target of the state to a key resource for the expression and deployment of state power.

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