Index

Abstract

Citation (2023), "Index", Kuntsman, A. and Xin, L. (Ed.) Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures (Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 149-152. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-201-320231016 Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Copyright © 2023 Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited INDEX Academic scholars, 107–108 Activism, 4–5 Affect theory, 15 Africa Rising, 72, 79 Africa Tech Rising, 79 Africa’s digital economy, 72 Al Qaida, 12 Algorithmic order, 31–34 Algorithms, 1 Anti-Iraq War mobilisation, 15 Anti-vaccination (Anti-Vax) activists, 42–43 movement, 4–5, 39, 42, 46 narratives, 4–5 Apple, 60–61 Arab Spring, 12 Archives, 26, 28–29 Archivist, 29–31 Archons, 29 Arguments, 44–45 Artificial intelligence (AI), 1 Big data analytics, 92 Black Lives Matter movement (BLM movement), 15–16 Blogs, 25–28, 58–59 Bottom-up internet development, 58 C++, 63–64 Capitalism, 5, 75–76 Capsule, 131 Celebrity activism, 15–16 Clickbaits, 33 Cold War, 75–76 Colonial mindset, 145–146 Communication, 136 Competition, 126 Computational modelling, 97–98 Content moderation, 29–31 Content moderator, 29–31 Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB), 31 Corporate subsets, 27–29 COVID-19 lockdowns, 45 Crisis of imagination, 121–124 Current imaginaries, 146 Cyber ethnography, 19 Cyberconflicts, 15 Data, 89–90 analytics, 18–19 dumps, 90–91, 95, 98 repurposability and combinability, 93–94 Datafication, 100–101 Development, 77–78 discourse, 72 Development financial institutions (DFIs), 72 DigiGen, 15–16, 19 Digital activism, 39 and nature of online information, 40–41 Digital activists, 40 Digital bureaucracy, 15–16 Digital capitalism, 76–77, 79 within geopolitics, 75–77 Digital communications, 136–137 Digital data, 90–91 Digital development, 73, 77, 79 perspectives, 74 Digital divide, 71, 73, 79, 82 Digital economy, 72 Digital futures, 1–3 Digital governance, 139–141 process, 145–147 Digital histories, 1–3 Digital intimacies, 132 Digital media, 122 Digital politics, 1–3 evolution, 11–14 information warfare and economies, 14–16 materiality of data, 16–20 theories, methodologies, pedagogies, 3–8 Digital research, 107 need to historicise, 108–109 read map, 111 visualisation, 110–111 Digital resources, 15–16 Digital storytelling, 136–137 Digital technologies, 1, 5–6, 40, 126, 131 Digitalised home, 131–132 Digitality, 107, 109 Digitisation of public administration institutions, 63 Diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DTP), 42 Dirty data, 90–91, 93 Distributed technology, 65–66 Dual archives, 27–29 Dutch bureaucrats, 31–32 Dystopia, 132–133, 137 EdgeRank algorithm, 32–33 Educational institutions, 63–64 Encapsulation, 131 Engineering governance, 139, 141–142, 146 Epistemic opacity, 97–98 Escobar, 75 Ethnography, 19 European Union (EU), 39–40 Facebook, 14–15, 26–27, 45–46 ephemerality, 26 revolutions, 12 users’ archive, 32–33 Fake account economy, 31 Fetishes technology, 72 Finance, 78 Flashmobs, 15–16 Fourth Industry Revolution, 82 Future imaginaries, 147 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 94 General Programming Languages (GPLs), 63–64 GitHub, 126 Go, 63–64 Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM), 72 Hashtags, 28–29, 43–44 Hierarchy of credibility, 31–34 Historical digital research, 121–124 Hyperlinks, 28–29 Identity economics, 33–34 Imagination, 124–125 Imperialism, 77–79 Information and communication technologies (ICT), 12 Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), 71 discourses, 74 integral aspect, 73–74 Information warfare and economies, 14–16 Instagram, 26 International Monetary Fund (IMF), 75 Internet, 57–60 models of tomorrow, 61 regulation, 5 Internet, 57–60 models of tomorrow, 61 regulation, 5 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), 142 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 142 companies, 60–61 Intimacy, 131 Iraq War, 11–12 Java, 63–64 Justifications, 44–45 Kinopio, 141 Klarna, 131 Legacy code, 97–98 Linguistic domination, 5 Map-making, 6–7 Materiality of data, 16–20 methodologies and methods, 17–20 Membrane, 131 Microsoft, 60–61, 78 Misinformation campaigns, 41 Mobile for development (M4D), 73–74, 79, 82 Mobile telephony, 80–81 Mobiles, 80 Modern development, 75–76 Mutation of capitalism, 35 National Home Service (NHS), 61–62 Neo-colonialism, 5 Neoliberalism, 76 Net Neutrality, 58 Netflix, 131 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 11 Online content, 19 Online interviews, 19 Optimistic technology, 72 Personal computers (PCs), 78 PHP, 63–64 Pirates, 60–61 Platform governance, 139, 141–142, 145 Policies, 78 Post-development theory, 74 Power dynamics, 5 Predatory journals, 4–5, 40 articles, 46–48 Pureblood hashtag, 44 Purity, 43–44 Python, 63–64 Quantitative text mining, 19 R, 63–64 Reasoning, 44–45 Revolutionary Virtual, 15 Scattered Network, 57, 64, 66 background, 58–61 Seasonal task, 30 Self-governance, 139, 141, 145 Slacktivism, 15–16 Social Credit System (SCS), 61–62 Social media, 25–26 archives, 27 archivist//the content moderator, 29–31 dual archives and corporate subsets, 27–29 hierarchy of credibility//the algorithmic order, 31–34 platforms, 1, 25–26 reflections, 34–36 Social Web, 58–59 Sociotechnical imaginaries, 7–8, 109, 122, 124–125 analytical tool, 127–128 crisis of imagination and historical digital research, 121–124 limitations in utilising sociotechnical imaginaries for researching digital, 125–127 Sovereign network, 65 Speed, 76 State apparatus, 63–64 Stories, 136 Storytelling, 136–137 Summer School, 1–4 Surveillant Network, 57, 61, 64 Tags, 28–29 Tech rising, 79 Techno-deterministic approach, 108–109 Techno-optimism, 73 Techno-social, 123 Technological fetishism, 73 Tinder, 131 Toxic data, 90–91, 93, 95 Toxicity, 93–94 Trust, 44–45 Twitter, 58–59 revolutions, 12 United Nations, 75 Universality, 58 Utopia, 137 Virtual communities, 11–12 Virtuality, 60–61 Visualisation, 110–111 Vocal activist movement, 46 Waste, 90 as data metaphor, 98–99 as demarcation, 91–93 as excess, 95–98 interventions, 100–101 Web 2.0, 58–59 Web-Internet, 60–61 Western technologies, 77–78 WhatsApp, 26 Wikileaks, 12 Wolt, 131 Worker-centric analysis, 14–15 World Bank, 71, 75 World Trade Organisation (WTO), 78 World War II, 75–76 World Wide Web, 57 YouTube, 26–27, 42–43 Zoom, 131 Book Chapters Prelims Introduction: Crafting New Approaches for Historising, Politicising and Imagining the Digital Part I Theories, Concepts, Explorations 1 Digital Politics: Defining, Exploring and Challenging the Field 2 Social Media, the Archives of Tomorrow 3 Activism and the Anti-Vaccination Movement 4 The Scattered Nature or Sovereign Surveillance: On Internet Models in the Context of Tomorrow 5 A Post-Developmental Critique of Digital Development and Digital Capitalism 6 Dirty, Toxic, Dumped: Waste as Data Metaphor Part II Methodologies, Pedagogies, Imaginaries 7 Historicising Digital Research: From the Histories of the Digital to Histories Written Through the Digital 8 Sociotechnical Imaginaries as an Analytical Tool for Examining Digital Histories and Digital Futures 9 Digitalised Home as Shell/Membrane 10 A Story About the Futures of Digital Storytelling 11 Layers of Digital Governance: Governing the Self, Platforms and Engineering Index