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My latest article "Tracing Class and Capitalism in Critical AI Research," with co-authors Petter Ericson and Roel Dobbe, reveals that while race and gender are commonly discussed in Critical AI Studies, class and capitalism issues are less prevalent, confined to a niche subfield. This highlights the need for integrating political economy critiques into AI research to fully address its socio-economic, ecological, and political implications.
Read it here: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1464
Come work with us at DIGSUM! We are announcing a new post-doc position at Umeå University, starting September 2024. Join our "PastForward" project where we study the political uses of the past in digital discourses about futures. The focus is on social media analysis and digital/computational methods. Apply by May 7, 2024! See more details and how to apply here: https://www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/post-doc-past-forward
The Department of Sociology at Umeå University is looking for a postdoctoral fellow. The employee will be part of the NordForsk financed project "PastForward: The political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures".
We have an open position for a postdoc to come work with us at Umeå University to study how disinformation and misinformation are created and spread through digital platforms, and how they may affect public opinion and democratic processes.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in contemporary societies. Discursive and public imaginations play a pivotal role in envisioning and determining the trajectories of AI and its integration into society. Particularly, the approach of sociotechnical imaginaries offers a meaningful perspective to analyze the characteristics and impact of imaginaries surrounding technological advances. As AI seems to be in a formative phase, both as a technology and infrastructure as well as regarding its public perception, it is particularly relevant to understand how imaginaries impact economic, research, and political agendas, and who is pushing which agenda. Therefore, this chapter introduces the concept of imaginaries and offers a critical analytical framework to question imaginaries of AI. In addition, it provides an overview of current research on sociotechnical imaginaries around AI and related technological discourses considering relevant stakeholders, media representations, and public perceptions of the technology.
A new book written by DIGSUM researchers Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Simon Lindgren, titled "Researching Digital Media and Society" was published last week. The book is the result of several years of research, workshops, and PhD courses at our centre, aimed at developing social science resear
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