Independence: an introduction to the #AoIR2021 special issue

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-26 DOI:10.1080/1369118X.2022.2063063

Aphra Kerr, A. Iliadis

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ABSTRACT This paper introduces the ‘Independence’ themed special issue which includes research presented at the 22nd annual Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference (2021). ‘Independence’ as a special issue theme could hardly be timelier, both in geopolitical and internet research terms. The call for the 2021 AoIR annual conference asked us to reflect on the ambivalence of the term, to look back on historical struggles for independence, the long waves of history, and prompted us to ask who benefits from independence (and who does not). Hosted online for a second year, this time by universities in Philadelphia (USA), the conference was bounded by the Black Lives Matter movement, the insurrectionist storming of Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill, and global struggles to control the COVID-19 pandemic. This special issue includes nine papers that showcase new research exploring the affordances offered by digital media platforms to people, users, and workers, while also identifying tendencies towards new forms of control and surveillance facilitated by platforms. Topics include geopolitical and biopolitical digital sovereignty, facial recognition technologies, data divides, new methods approaches and innovative data sourcing, mobile and social media, examinations of embodied local knowledge as well as patriarchal, racist, and gendered social structures, and a broad range of field sites from Asia, Africa, and South America.

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独立：#AoIR2021特刊简介

本文介绍了“独立”主题特刊，其中包括在第22届年度互联网研究人员协会(AoIR)会议(2021)上提出的研究。从地缘政治和互联网研究的角度来看，“独立”作为特刊主题的时机再合适不过了。2021年air年会的召开，让我们反思这个词的矛盾心理，回顾历史上争取独立的斗争，回顾历史的长波，并促使我们思考谁从独立中受益(谁没有)。这是第二届在线会议，这次由费城(美国)的大学主办，会议的主题包括“黑人的命也是命”运动、华盛顿特区国会山的起义风暴以及全球控制COVID-19大流行的斗争。本期特刊包括九篇论文，展示了探索数字媒体平台为人们、用户和工人提供的便利的新研究，同时也确定了平台促进的新形式的控制和监视的趋势。主题包括地缘政治和生物政治数字主权、面部识别技术、数据鸿沟、新方法和创新的数据来源、移动和社交媒体、具体的地方知识以及父权制、种族主义和性别社会结构的检验，以及来自亚洲、非洲和南美洲的广泛的现场站点。

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Information Communication & Society Multiple-

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

4.80%

发文量

110

期刊介绍： Drawing together the most current work upon the social, economic, and cultural impact of the emerging properties of the new information and communications technologies, this journal positions itself at the centre of contemporary debates about the information age. Information, Communication & Society (iCS) transcends cultural and geographical boundaries as it explores a diverse range of issues relating to the development and application of information and communications technologies (ICTs), asking such questions as: -What are the new and evolving forms of social software? What direction will these forms take? -ICTs facilitating globalization and how might this affect conceptions of local identity, ethnic differences, and regional sub-cultures? -Are ICTs leading to an age of electronic surveillance and social control? What are the implications for policing criminal activity, citizen privacy and public expression? -How are ICTs affecting daily life and social structures such as the family, work and organization, commerce and business, education, health care, and leisure activities? -To what extent do the virtual worlds constructed using ICTs impact on the construction of objects, spaces, and entities in the material world? iCS analyses such questions from a global, interdisciplinary perspective in contributions of the very highest quality from scholars and practitioners in the social sciences, gender and cultural studies, communication and media studies, as well as in the information and computer sciences.