This book focuses on the intelligent technologies that are transforming creative practices and industries.

This book focuses on how new technologies are raising and reshaping ethical questions and practices which aim to automate ethics into program outputs.

This book focuses on the ‘algorithmic turn’ in state surveillance and the development of new platforms that allow the Chinese Communist Party to shape human behaviour in all areas of life through its widespread social credit system.

This book focuses on the values and effects that are operational in data technologies as they sustain colonial and imperialist legacies while also highlighting strategies for resistance to autocratic regimes and pathways towards decolonizing efforts.

This book focuses on the recent rise of ‘infodemics’ as forms of disinformation, misinformation and malinformation saturate contemporary media platforms, shaping public opinion to advance agendas.
The internet in general and social media in particular have relativized, through their global, complex and instantaneous information flows, assumptions about truth and authority in fact-based content. This has created new opportunities for state actors to use information beyond traditional conceptions of propaganda to directly assault a public’s conception of reality. Additionally, almost...