The concept of surveillance is indispensable for understanding the digital age, even as it requires constant inflection.
Google Scholar’s platform dynamics undermine the academy’s ability to understand how it evaluates itself.
The data broker industry is a mostly unknown, invisible, pervasive and concerning protagonist of surveillance capitalism that deserves much more public scrutiny.
There is no one set definition for the phrase “ad hoc networks”. The term refers to the ability for members of a network to establish a network connection between devices. Yet, ad hoc networks pertain to both the technical domain of network infrastructures, the social, political and economic modes of self-organisation they enable, and the
The term independently-hosted web publishing refers to websites that have been made available online through infrastructure primarily controlled by the website’s owners, enabling decentralisation.
Cypherpunk refers to social movements, individuals, institutions, technologies, and political actions that, with a decentralised approach, defend, support, offer, code, or rely on strong encryption systems in order to re-shape social, political, or economic asymmetries.
A “non-user,” as the name suggests, refers to an individual who does not use a given product or system. Critical work on non-use elaborates a range of applications for the term we consider here. The variations of non-use under discussion encompass both voluntary and involuntary cases of non-use.
The role of voluntary standards as intermediaries in the application of the Right to Data Portability: an empirical analysis.
Digitally-disadvantaged languages face multiple inequities in the digital sphere, with their speaker communities frequently experiencing the duality of digital neglect and surveillance. These languages suffer from gaps in digital support, and when support does exist, it often makes speaker communities vulnerable to surveillance and gaps in content
Blockchain-based NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are uniquely identifiable digital representations of physical or digital items.