Digital Futures between Domination and Participation: 28 (Studies in Media and Communications, 28)

Digital technologies from the Internet and social media to artificial intelligence and robotics are reshaping the world.They offer joy, participation, and higher productivity, but they have also brought disruption, alienation, control, oppression, and exacerbated inequalities.This volume explores this ongoing transformation and its social implications between domination and participation.Outcomes at any given time are not taken as predetermined but as results of the decisions by a range of diverse social actors who compete, cooperate, or conflict with one another and can draw on differential access to resources within shifting political-legal frameworks and structural contexts.Scholars of communication, media studies, sociology, political ecology, employment and labor relations, science and technology come together to examine the social shaping of digital futures across different world regions and domains. Contributing to these fields, the volume highlights the merits of interdisciplin