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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Digital Capitalism"”.
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The platform economy in China: algorithm, labor, and digital capitalism
… surplus, favorable policy environments for the digital economy, and technology worship. Through this case, this project aims to theorize the consequences of digital technologies on labor in contemporary China. Using a qualitative approach that combines in-depth interviews, observations, …
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Exploring digital discourse with Chinese characteristics: contradictions and tensions
Capitalism in China is under transformations. This research aims to register and interpret China’s discourse on network technologies, reveal the underlying ideologies, and tie this discourse to the transformation of China’s capitalism of which it is a part. Digital discourse, as this thesis defines …
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Startup Futures: Entrepreneurs, Investors and Imaginaries of Care in Global India
… transformations at the dawn of a new era of digital capitalism.</p>
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Tencent as a nexus: the political economy of China’s internet industry
… industry and its interaction with transnational digital capitalism, and the contemporary transformation of China and the global political economy. This dissertation argues that Tencent emerged as a creation jointly of the Chinese state and transnational financial capital. On one hand, Tencent …
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Cultural governance in contemporary China: popular culture, digital technology, and the state
… process, especially the kind of transformations digital technologies have wrought on the state-TV-station-centered mode of cultural production/distribution and regulatory apparatuses. Through this case, the project aims to theorize the changing mode of cultural governance of post-socialist …
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Videogame culture as transnational media: one neoliberalism, many resistances
… of artists, consumers and non-commercial digital users on the other. I argue that Metal Gear Solid 4 rewrites the stealth espionage thriller into a critique of neoliberalism's financial speculations and neocolonial wars, while Final Fantasy 12 rewrites the fantasy role-playing videogame …
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Peripheral Alternatives: Media and Tibetan Nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere
… in this research. Meanwhile, given the rise of digital capitalism and the resonance between Tibetan nationalism and other active nationalisms in this more connective world, by highlighting cosmopolitan presence with Tibetan presence and Chinese presence in Tibetanness, this research develops …
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Fourth industrial banking: case studies into digitising banking models and the foreseeable effects in South Africa
… remain excluded from formal financial services, digital banking methods premised on the technologies of the 4IR have emerged as potential “solutions”. What is often understated, however, that this study highlights, is that such technological advancements hold challenges. Moreover, as they are …
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Trade Unions and the Media: Exercising and Revitalising Power After the Financial Crisis of 2008
… society. And within the context of accelerating digital capitalism, it looks set to becoming an increasingly important determinant of their future trajectory.
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The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On the Quest to be Middle-Class Wealthy and Morally Worthy
The digital labour debate has produced manifold insights into new forms of work and class relations emerging within digital capitalism. So far, however, most research has either focused on tech entrepreneurs or the highly precarious crowd and gig workers, neglecting the growing ranks of …
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Computing the Social: How Capitalism and Taste Shape Computational Social Science
… computational research. Based on 24 months of digital ethnography of a university laboratory and in-depth interviews with its members, this dissertation makes two arguments. First, it asserts that disciplinary aesthetic orders are significant drivers of computational social scientists’ …
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Behind the search box: the political economy of a global Internet industry
… of search is controlled disproportionately by US digital capital, mainly Google. US dominance in search seems to carry forward the existing, deeply unbalanced, international information order; however, this US-led industry actually faces jarring oppositions within a changing and conflicted global …