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Creative data justice: A decolonial and indigenous framework to assess creativity and artificial intelligence

Payal Arora

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.

"In the last decade, the Global South has emerged as a significant player in the data economy due to their majority user base, and studying its role is crucial to comprehend the future of AI. As societies grapple with the implications of AI on creative life, there is an opportunity to reevaluate the ... more

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Destructive polarization in digital communication contexts: A critical review and conceptual framework

Katharina Esau, Taroq Choucair, Samantha Vilkins, Sebastian F. K. Svegaard, Axel Bruns, O'Connor-Farfan Kate S., Carly Lubicz-Zaorski

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.

"While the digital turn in communication research offers novel opportunities to study polarization at scale, it also adds complexity to a challenging concept. Ambiguities surrounding the conceptual understanding of polarization in different fields lead to problems in advancing the research in the di ... more

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The promises and pitfalls of cryptocurrencies and blockchain for marginalized communities

Densua Mumford, Michael Sampson, James Shires

Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 11 (2024), pp. 1979-1996

"Cryptocurrencies, and the blockchain technology that underlies them, have attracted much attention over the last decade from scholars, tech communities, financial institutions, states and more. The extreme volatility of the cryptocurrency market has made some people very rich and cost others almost ... more

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Collective victimhood narratives in far-right communities on Telegram

Constantine Boussalis, Craig Callum, Aaron F. Rudkin

Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 8 (2024), pp. 1407-1424

"Feelings of collective victimhood have been demonstrated to have a strong effect on ingroup bias, outgroup hostility and support for violence. The use of narratives stirring these feelings in far-right communications is especially concerning given their inclusion in the manifestos of several mass k ... more

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A ‘design justice’ approach to developing digital tools for addressing gender-based violence: Exploring the possibilities and limits of feminist chatbots

Nicola Henry, Alice Witt, Stefani Vasil

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 24 pp.

"Digital tools, such as safety apps, reporting portals, and chatbots, are increasingly being used by victim-survivors of gender-based violence to report unlawful activity and access specialized support and information. Despite their limitations, these interventions offer a range of potential benefit ... more

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A return of dominant paradigm in China: Making Alibaba a development solution for rural China and the globe

Ziyi Wang

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 21 pp.

"In 2011, Alibaba launched the Taobao Villages initiative, which enables rural e-commerce and connects rural sellers with urban buyers, highlighting the role of e-commerce platforms in reducing rural poverty. This approach was later integrated into national rural development policies. As the Digital ... more

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Smarter, greener extractivism: Digital infrastructures and the harnessing of new resources

Patrick Brodie

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.

"The past several years have seen increased scholarly attention to the concept of ‘extraction’ and ‘extractivism’ as critical frameworks in the humanities and social sciences. These are not only concepts and processes through which to understand material extraction but also expanded formatio ... more

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Memes, humor, and the far right’s strategic mainstreaming

Ursula Kristin Schmid, Heidi Schulze, Antonia Drexel

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.

"The far right is increasingly relying on visual and less extreme online communication, for instance by using memes, to strategically mainstream their ideology. The use of humor in particular renders their communication more relatable to a mainstream audience. However, little is known about the actu ... more

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Maori data sovereignty: Contributions to data cultures in the government sector in New Zealand

Lilley Spencer, Gillian Oliver, Cranefield, Mattew Lewellen

Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 16 (2024), pp. 2801-2816

"Maori data sovereignty, an extension of Indigenous data sovereignty, is gaining recognition as a vital element of data-related strategy, management, policy, and culture in New Zealand. Driven by the principles of tino-rangatiratanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Maori data sovereignty emphasizes Maori ... more

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Digitalization in China: Who’s left behind?

Anson Au

Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 6 (2024), pp. 1247-1265

"In an age of digitalization, who still refuses to use digital technology? Drawing on nationally-representative Chinese General Social Survey data, this article finds that about half of Chinese households do not actively use the Internet or epayment systems, despite their ubiquity. This article esti ... more

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Persisting inequalities in the digitalized society: Migrant women facing coercive dimensions of everyday digitalization

Ulla Buchert, Sirpa Wrede, Anne Kouvonen

Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 5 (2024), pp. 935-950

"Understanding the ubiquitous digitalization of everyday life and associated inequalities presupposes rich conceptualizations of the associated social dynamics. Accordingly, we investigate digital service domestication as a social dimension of people’s lives, building on concepts that center users ... more