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Empowerment or warfare? dark skin, AI camera, and Transsion’s patent narratives 授权还是战争？深色皮肤、AI摄像头和Transsion的专利叙事

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2056500

M. Lu, J. Qiu

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The costs of connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism 连接的代价:数据如何殖民人类生活并将其用于资本主义

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2062254

V. Obia

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Imaginaries of platform entrepreneurship in the creative industries: techno-optimism and subversion in Ghanaian filmmaking 创意产业中平台创业的想象:加纳电影制作中的技术乐观主义与颠覆

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2062252

Robin Steedman, Ana Alacovska, Thilde Langevang, Rashida Resario

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Daughters, devices and doorkeeping: how gender and class shape adolescent mobile phone access in Mumbai, India 女儿、设备和守门:性别和阶级如何影响印度孟买青少年的手机接入

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-06 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2056499

Isha Bhallamudi

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Cloaked science: the Yan reports 被遮蔽的科学：阎报告

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2027501

Jennifer Nilsen, Joan M. Donovan, Robert Faris

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Information technology & media sociology in a (still) pandemic world （仍然）疫情世界中的信息技术与媒体社会学

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2048050

Jenny L. Davis, D. Kidd, Muyang Li, Rachel Aalders, Tyler Burgese

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Exploring discourses of whiteness in the Mary Beard Oxfam-Haiti Twitterstorm 探索玛丽·比尔德乐施会-海地推特风暴中的白人话语

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2050417

Ceri Ashwell, P. Reilly

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People as data, data as oil: the digital sovereignty of the Indian state 人即数据，数据即石油:印度政府的数字主权

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2056498

R. Prasad

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The media manifesto 媒体宣言

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2022.2055485

Abby Youran Qin

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The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of control on the global web 数字前沿:全球网络控制的基础设施