Making spaces for debate in the digital age

Political Geography, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 116, С. 103268 - 103268

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference

Theory Culture & Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 16, 2025

What is the relationship between ideas of sameness and difference for machine learning AI? Algorithms are often understood to participate in continual displacement different heterogeneous society favour sameness, that which socio-politically similar proximate. In contrast this prevalent emphasis on however, paper argues there a nascent heterophilic logic underpinning intersection synthetic data learning, move towards actively generating differences attributes train, fine-tune, optimize algorithms. Yet, these attribute nonetheless always compatible, devoid their socio-cultural dynamics tensions. As such, through critical examination three core dimensions emergent politics – disentanglement, compositionality, normativity has potential ultimately undercut intervention seeks foreground systemic unfairness violence learning.

Язык: Английский

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Visualising an undergraduate geography field class using generative AI: Intent, expectations and surprises about the racial depiction of students

Area, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 30, 2025

Abstract This commentary reflects on an attempt to use ChatGPT generate image for a geography textbook. We explore why the that was produced provoked surprise and intrigue think through how our reactions revealed ingrained assumptions about educational spaces. Our discussion highlights importance of intentionality in prompt design offers reminder seemingly neutral prompts can reproduce dominant narratives. conclude by proposing as generative AI becomes more prevalent education, this take‐up needs critically engage with ethical societal implications so we actively challenge ourselves well technology.

Язык: Английский

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World Models and Digital Twins: Urban Simulation and Generative AI

Dialogues in Urban Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 23, 2025

This commentary responds to Gillian Rose's essay ‘Visualising human life in volumetric cities: City digital twins and other disasters'. It highlights recognition that Digital Twins are always discursive projections as much they actual working simulations, constituted part by a surrounding ecology of texts images work transform tech hype into reality. The expands on the ‘twin'-nature all - how their status both machine-readable objects allows them function simulations mediating between realms computational sensory. concludes exploring recent developments moving image Generative AI. questions ‘world modelling' simulation’ claims these technologies.

Язык: Английский

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Review forum

Political Geography, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 103289 - 103289

Опубликована: Март 1, 2025

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Synthetic media and computational capitalism: towards a critical theory of artificial intelligence

AI & Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 19, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Adaptive Leadership and Engaged Scholarship

Revista de Administração Contemporânea, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 29(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Liderança Adaptativa e Pesquisa Engajada

Revista de Administração Contemporânea, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 29(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

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AI, agency, and power geometries

Media Culture & Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 10, 2025

One of the paradoxes AI is that it a global phenomenon, but always situated in specific local contexts and cultures. While approaches aim to study cultures are important, there risk neglecting their insertion within broader geographies politics AI. As response this challenge, article proposes pathway apply concept power geometries, originally proposed by feminist geographer Doreen Massey, case Reframing dimension terms geometries helps locate these positions complex networks relationships between different actors at level. The follow lines inequalities Global North South, colonizers colonized, also diverse scales, such as governments, policymakers, corporations, designers, workers, users. all media can be examined bring issue agency central stage. reconfiguration question sparked AI, fact, has generated new kinds structures trajectories underpinning AI’s geometries.

Язык: Английский

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Principles of Algorithmic Management

Organization Theory, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 5(2)

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2024

Our title harks back to Frederick W. Taylor’s influential book. But our identification of the principles algorithmic management is certainly not advocacy. task in this essay develop a theory relation fundamental changes shape and structure organization 21 st century that are reconfiguring boundaries, roles, relations among managers, workers, engineers, professionals, consumers, other user categories. In particular, such must be attentive transformations topology organization. Today, many most valuable actors, assets, activities located within firm but involve complex entanglement information flows, practices, users. This gives rise distinctive challenge: how manage when assets firm. Whereas actors hierarchies command, markets they contract, networks collaborate, on platforms co-opted. The co-optation undertaken by management. To grasp management, we compare contrast features its ideology practices with those scientific more recent collaborative Algorithmic argue, operates different organizational form, articulates ideology, addresses managerial problems governance along lines accountability.

Язык: Английский

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