Transversal Politics of Big Tech

IF 3.5 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2023-01-04 DOI:10.1093/ips/olac020

L. Monsees, Tobias Liebetrau, J. Austin, Anna Leander, Swati Srivastava

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Abstract

Our everyday life is entangled with products and services of so-called Big Tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook. International relations (IR) scholars increasingly seek to reflect on the relationships between Big Tech, capitalism, and institutionalized politics, and they engage with the practices of algorithmic governance and platformization that shape and are shaped by Big Tech. This collective discussion advances these emerging debates by approaching Big Tech transversally, meaning that we problematize Big Tech as an object of study and raise a range of fundamental questions about its politics. The contributions demonstrate how a transversal perspective that cuts across sociomaterial, institutional, and disciplinary boundaries and framings opens up the study of the politics of Big Tech. The discussion brings to the fore perspectives on the ontologies of Big Tech, the politics of the aesthetics and credibility of Big Tech and rethinks the concepts of legitimacy and responsibility. The article thereby provides several inroads for how IR and international political sociology can leverage their analytical engagement with Big Tech and nurture imaginaries of alternative and subversive technopolitical futures.

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大型科技公司的横向政治

我们的日常生活与亚马逊、谷歌和脸书等所谓大型科技公司的产品和服务纠缠在一起。国际关系（IR）学者越来越多地寻求反思大型科技公司、资本主义和制度化政治之间的关系，他们参与了算法治理和平台化的实践，这些实践塑造并由大型科技公司塑造。这种集体讨论通过横向接近大型科技公司来推进这些新兴的辩论，这意味着我们将大型科技公司作为研究对象，并提出一系列关于其政治的基本问题。这些贡献展示了一种跨越社会物质、制度和学科界限和框架的横向视角是如何开启对大型科技公司政治的研究的。这场讨论突出了对大型科技的本体论、大型科技公司美学和可信度的政治观，并重新思考了合法性和责任的概念。因此，这篇文章为IR和国际政治社会学如何利用他们与大型科技公司的分析接触，培养对替代性和颠覆性技术政治未来的想象提供了几个切入点。

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4.80

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期刊介绍： International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.