Hiu-Fung Chung
Hiu-Fung Chung
How does critical AI studies itself travel, and what happens when it arrives elsewhere? This commentary reflects on the global circulation of critique from the standpoint of East Asia, where layered histories of modernization, technological...
Sovereignty-as-a-service: How big tech companies co-opt and redefine digital sovereignty [0.03%]
以主权为服务：大型科技公司如何利用和重新定义数字主权
Rafael Grohmann,Alexandre Costa Barbosa
Rafael Grohmann
This article introduces the concept of sovereignty-as-a-service to describe how Big Tech companies, specifically Microsoft, Amazon, and Google/Alphabet, are strategically redefining digital sovereignty through their programs of cloud infras...
Renting royalties: How the assetization of music copyrights contributes to inequality for musicians [0.03%]
音乐版权的资产化对音乐人的不公平性在哪里？
D Bondy Valdovinos Kaye
D Bondy Valdovinos Kaye
This study presents a critique of assetization in the music industry through a case study of royalty shares and their effect on musicians. A royalty share is a form of securitized music copyright that is packaged and sold as an investment a...
Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms' rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises [0.03%]
向处于危机中的观众报道：电视新闻在报道英国能源价格上涨的影响时的中断、批评和缺失的希望
Julian Matthews
Julian Matthews
How does journalism communicate to audiences who are experiencing crisis? Existing literature suggests that journalists use reporting templates and related practices to report crises with elite narratives and myths (and some 'disruptive fac...
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
瑞典新闻媒体在新冠大流行第一年中的主体建构研究
Annica Lövenmark,Jonas Stier,Helena Blomberg
Annica Lövenmark
The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the global media since 2020. To a large extent, it is via the news media that the public has learned about the risks, levels of danger, governmental regulations and mandatory actions. This article highlig...
Calls from Beyond the Walls: prison cellphone recordings during the pandemic in Lebanon [0.03%]
疫情下的黎巴嫩监狱手机录音
Chafic Tony Najem
Chafic Tony Najem
Forcibly confined in a precarious and overcrowded space amidst the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, prisoners in Lebanon resorted to their smuggled cellphones. They produced and circulated images, videos, and sound bites documenting the dir...
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter [0.03%]
缺失中的压迫：关于新冠肺炎疫情下_twitter上的#WhereIsTheInterpreter活动分析
Tahleen A Lattimer,Yotam Ophir
Tahleen A Lattimer
Critical to managing a crisis such as COVID-19 is the propagation of information to all vulnerable populations. Despite guidelines regarding communicating with people with differing accessibility needs during crises, some often find their n...
Tanja Bosch,Herman Wasserman
Tanja Bosch
Around the world, tabloid newspapers are routinely surrounded by a moral and cultural panic. They are criticised for lowering standards of journalism and privileging sensation above substance, diverting readers from serious news to entertai...
On losing the "dispensable" sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges [0.03%]
从失去“可有可无”的感觉说开去——TikTok仿作公众与新冠肺炎的嗅觉丧失挑战
Adrianna Grace Michell
Adrianna Grace Michell
The enduring effects of COVID-19 have called into question many of the assumptions upon which media and cultural studies rest, including a fundamental mode of perception: the sense of smell. In dialog with the field of sensory studies, this...
Digital dependence: Online fatigue and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情封锁期间的数字化依赖：在线疲劳与应对策略
Emilie Munch Gregersen,Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard,Malene Hornstrup Jespersen et al.
Emilie Munch Gregersen et al.
As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns forced populations across the world to become completely dependent on digital devices for working, studying, and socializing, there has been no shortage of published studies about the possible negative eff...