Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love - Carolina Bandinelli, Alessandro Gandini, 2022
Dating apps promise a ‘digital fix’ to the ‘messy’ matter of love by means of datafication and algorithmic matching, realising a platformisation of romance comm...
This book explores how imperialism has been evolving in the neoliberal era, with the aim of providing a systematic and integrative understanding of the inner dynamics and vulnerabilities of the contemporary imperialist system. Asking how it has been possible to sustain an imperialist system that fails to address the problems of unemployment, declining standards of living and globalizing conflicts, the author draws upon theoretical and empirical contributions from the current literature to furthe
The global south, degrowth and The Simpler Way movement: the need for structural solutions at the global level
(2021). The global south, degrowth and The Simpler Way movement: the need for structural solutions at the global level. Globalizations. Ahead of Print.
The Digital Tech Deal: a socialist framework for the twenty-first century - Michael Kwet, 2022
The twenty-first century global economy is largely driven by Big Tech and, more broadly, digital capitalism. This is a global phenomenon, with US power at the c...
Strategic Doing: A Strategy Model for Open Networks - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
This thesis presents a new model for developing and implementing strategy in open networks. Most of the strategy literature, indeed virtually all of it, addresses the challenge of one organization attempting to survive and thrive in the world. Over the last 30 years, since the 1990s, strategic management has had to make two big adjustments. First, the environments in which we operate have become far more turbulent. Second, our organizations have become more porous, more networked, and less hierarchical. The enormous impact of the Internet has accelerated both trends.
Colonial global economy: towards a theoretical reorientation of political economy
(2021). Colonial global economy: towards a theoretical reorientation of political economy. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 28, Special Issue on 'Blind Spots in IPE' - Guest Editors: Genevieve LeBaron, Daniel Mügge, Jacqueline Best and Colin Hay, pp. 307-322.
Over the past half century, how we conceive of design research has changed significantly, as indeed have the boundaries of influence of the design pro…
Critique of Design Thinking in Organizations: Strongholds and Shortcomings of the Making Paradigm
Despite claims that design has moved beyond making artifacts and products, prevailing theories of design thinking in organizations remain entrenched i…
Can Design Be Non-paternalistic? Conceptualizing Paternalism in the Design Profession
Paternalism is an instance of someone making a decision on behalf of someone else. A professional designer can exhibit paternalism through conceptuali…
From the Fringe to the Fore: An Algorithmic Ethnography of the Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Group QAnon - Peter L. Forberg, 2021
In this article, I examine the convergence of the socio-technological processes that enabled members of far-right conspiracy theory QAnon to expand beyond the “...
Decolonizing money Central banks in the Philippines and Indonesia from Beyond Empire and Nation: The Decolonization of African and Asian societies, 1930s-1970s on JSTOR
Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy & Technology - This paper explores the important role of critical science, and in particular of post-colonial and decolonial theories, in understanding and shaping the ongoing...
How Futures Studies and Foresight Could Address Ethical Dilemmas of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - Alejandro Díaz-Domínguez, 2020
Drawing from ethical concerns raised by communities of machine learning developers and considering predictive analytics’ very short-term predictions, several fu...
Le travail corporel dans le contexte des élections de Miss
I. Introduction Les avantages sociaux associés à la beauté et les sanctions qui se manifestent quand elle fait défaut (Amadieu, 2002) encouragent les individus à effectuer un travail important sur...
Le hip-hop japonais et la globalisation de la culture populaire – ethnographiques.org
Dans cet essai, Ian Condry trace un portrait de la globalisation de la culture populaire américaine. De prime abord, la musique hip-hop japonaise semble une illustration parfaite de la manière dont…
Here are a few thoughts coming out of the five weeks of readings in decolonial theory that I’m doing with my Advanced Environmental Humanities class (which has been online and open to the intereste…
IP//AI UNESCO: BACKGROUND The Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence (IP//AI) Incubator - spawned out of the international cohort and work ...