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Datafied Societies: Digital Infrastructures, Data Power, and Regulations
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Abstract The datafication and platformization of social processes further the overall shift from an open, public, and decentralized internet towards a private and siloed realm that establishes power asymmetries between those who provide data and those who own, trade, and control data. The ongoing process of ... mehr
The datafication and platformization of social processes further the overall shift from an open, public, and decentralized internet towards a private and siloed realm that establishes power asymmetries between those who provide data and those who own, trade, and control data. The ongoing process of datafying societies embraces the logics of aggregation and automation that increasingly negotiate transactions between markets and social entities, informing governance systems, institutions, and public discourse. This thematic issue presents a collection of articles that tackle the political economy of datafication from three main perspectives: (a) digital media infrastructures and its actors, data structures, and markets; (b) the articulation of data power, public access to information, data privacy, and the risks of citizens in a datafied society; and (c) the policies and regulations for effective, independent media institutions and data sovereignty. It concludes with a reflection on the role of media and communication scholarship when studying sociotechnical processes controlled by giant technological companies.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Digitalisierung; Medienpolitik; Datenorganisation; Datenschutz
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Kommunikationswissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
data power; datafication; datafied society; digital infrastructure; media political economy; media regulation; platforms
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 291-295
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 11 (2023) 2
Heftthema
A Datafied Society: Data Power, Infrastructures, and Regulations
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet