Week 8: Digital labour in platform economies
During the course of one day, document and then reflect upon the ‘labour’ that you have performed as a consequence of your everyday social media usage, and on the mechanisms that platforms use use to extract profit from the data you have contributed. Do you think you are adequately rewarded for this ‘work’?
Continue readingweek 7: Algorithms, machine learning, and racial capitalism
Use an AI story or image generator to write a story or create an image. Discuss and analyse the story or image and explain the values and biases manifested in it, using concepts and theories from today’s session.
Continue readingWrite a critical analysis of the video ‘Introducing Airbnb.org’ on YouTube. What story does the video tell about the digital economy, and how does it tell that story? How does the Airbnb story draw on the ‘California ideology’, as described by Barbrook and Cameron?
Week 4: Media, ideology, and hegemony: media meanings
L’Oréal’s newest advertising campaign: “Never your fault” involves feminism, analyzing the relationship between the ideas and values conveyed in the campaign and the commercial interests of the sponsoring company.
Is it possible to watch Netflix content in your ‘home country’, and if so, how do people do it? What kind of Netflix content is available – and can you explain why?