The Political Economy of New Media Revisited

Couvering, Elizabeth Van

doi:10.24251/hicss.2017.220

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“…These normative orientations of AePDS, however, are not accomplished merely by the fixed properties of the de-duplication algorithms but through the co-constitution of algorithms with the institutional rearrangements of welfare that brings in new actors; rearranges power, resources and agency across different actors; and reworks or reinstates mechanisms of control and coercion. This algorithmic assemblage is, furthermore, situated within the larger political economy of algorithmic governance which aims to reduce welfare expenditure and make welfare inaccessible or unattractive for a larger section of the population (Eubanks, 2018) and encourages states to acts in a platformised manner to bring real-time citizen data for private sectors to innovate and provide services (Gillespie, 2010; O’Reilly, 2011; Singh, 2019; Sobbrio, 2018; Van Couvering, 2017) with the state tightening the centralised control over the platform for better surveillance and security (Jacobsen, 2012).…”

Section: Algorithms Welfare and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Programmed welfare: An ethnographic account of algorithmic practices in the public distribution system in India

Chaudhuri

2022

New Media & Society

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Although considered to be fixed sequence of computational procedures, the actual nature of algorithms emerges only in practice through its performative agency enacted within a network of human and non-human actors. In this article, I trace this agency in the everyday practices of the algorithmic system of welfare distribution, namely, the Aadhaar-enabled Public Distribution System (AePDS), through ethnographic fieldwork across three states in India. Conceptualising the AePDS as a programmed welfare system, I unpack its underlying assemblages to show that far from being objective technologies of governance, algorithmic sorting for targeted welfare is enacted in relation to a multitude of human actors, databases, machines, documents and shifting institutional contexts, in ways that are markedly different from its fixed computation properties. This mode of enquiry, I argue, makes the process of algorithmic enactment more transparent and comprehensible, which in turn will aid in better design and governance of such systems.

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Section: Algorithms Welfare and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Programmed welfare: An ethnographic account of algorithmic practices in the public distribution system in India

Chaudhuri

2022

New Media & Society

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“…As new media continues to offer this spectrum, many vital needs are met as new communities are built while the old ones are reorganized. Consequently, there is a tendency of individuals to be indifferent communities at once, which again create subgroups and microcommunities (Van Couvering, 2017). All this is for the purpose of fulfillment of their needs.…”

Section: The Perspective Of the Political Economy Of Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In recent years, political economies of Media Corporation have taken into new media specifically for creativity purposes. Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, and Tik Tok are used to create information, media products as well as messages that are commodified for commercial purposes (Hearns-Branaman, 2009;Mansell, 2004;Van Couvering, 2017). Short videos that target specific individuals, as well as organizations, are designed for these purposes.…”

Section: The Perspective Of the Political Economy Of Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The global networks currently are being policed while passwords, firewalls, and accessibility rights, as well as equipment efficiency and availability of the bandwidths, limit the free-roaming on the internet by the consumers. All these, the dispersed, networked media sphere with the quantitative data storage, manipulation, and shift have changed the production and forms in both the reception and use of the media information (Van Couvering, 2017). The selectivity control is "de-massified" in the development of various scales and complexities in the weave and nestles of the new media.…”

Section: The Perspective Of the Political Economy Of Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Currently, the development of asymmetrical decentralized networks has transformed and promoted the obsolescence of media and communication processes. The role of the new media in the political economies has shifted from majorly regulation but to provide an opportunity for the users to generate their contents (Forte et al, 2014;Friedman & Friedman, 2008;Van Couvering, 2017). The strategy is ensuring that there is a vast amount of information that can be sourced when needed.…”

Section: The Perspective Of the Political Economy Of Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Syndrome-Analysis of New Media and Political Economy in 21st Century

Ong’ong’a

2020

Journal of New Media and Mass Communication

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Contribution/Originality: This study logically analyses and contributes to the existing ever-growing literature on the new media and political economy. Therefore, it documents the importance of alternative usage of open source software that is feasible as a strategy to minimize exploitation from the few corporates' giants in the new media economy. INTRODUCTIONNew media is defined differently by scholars to mean different things. In the analysis of these definitions, essential elements that erupt, including interactivity, connectivity, convergence, and technology (Doğan & Oze, 2019). Other scholars have delved themselves in offering the characteristics of what is so-called the old media to distinguish them with what is current media that is majorly hosted by the internet. Scholars like Livingstone and Lievrouw, base their argument on the way messages are conveyed using technology in social media platforms.While scholars like Gitelman and Pingree look at them specifically on the practices that include digitization, telecommunication, and collaboration in general (Forte, Mudambi, & Navarra, 2014). Therefore, it is inevitable to note that new media can be defined differently based on the period of technological transit in comparison with other media. Consequently, the article borrows the definition of Monovich, who defines new media as the use of digital

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