Digital Culture & Society (DCS)
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Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Vol. 9, Issue 2/2023: Frictions: Conflicts, Controversies and Design Alternatives in Digital Valuation

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Vol. 9, Issue 2/2023: Frictions: Conflicts, Controversies and Design Alternatives in Digital Valuation

About this book

With the proliferation of smart devices such as smartphones, smart watches, and smart speakers as well as the ongoing push toward smart cities, humans, technologies, and environments have become entangled in increasingly complex yet seemingly frictionless infrastructures of datafication and computation. A seemingly frictionless user experience, however, conceals the contradictions, power asymmetries, and polarisations that shape our digital cultures. This issue of Digital Culture & Society takes the notion of frictions as a starting point for a situated analysis of our digital present. Frictions are sites where criticism is sparked, value conflicts are negotiated, and design alternatives are explored. By bringing together research from media studies, science and technology studies (STS), and sociology, this issue begins to synthesise and systematise the structural inconsistencies that frictions expose.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Content
  3. Introduction – Frictions. Conflicts, Controversies, and Design Alternatives in Digital Valuation
  4. Tracing the Seams. A Historical Exploration of X’s Software Ecosystem
  5. On “Super Likes” and Algorithmic (In)Visibilities. Frictions Between Social and Economic Logics in the Context of Social Media Platforms
  6. Quantifying Peer Review. Incentivising and Coordinating Academic Work through Digital Currencies
  7. Dogs and Data. The Conflicting Values of Self-Representation in Social Media
  8. To Be Real or Not to Be. On the Discursive Friction of “Authenticity” Displayed by Instagram and its Design Alternative BeReal
  9. Friction in the Materialities of Value. Relating Transparency, Algorithms and Credit Scoring
  10. Conflicting Values in Epidemiological Modelling, Simulation, and Dashboard-Design. A Contribution to the Analysis of the Epistemisation of Pandemic Politics
  11. Why is it so Complicated? Cooperation, Conflicts, and Frictions in the Digitalisation of Healthcare
  12. Domestic Discords. Frictions in Smart Speaker Valuation
  13. Biographical Notes