28. Critical datafication, platformization and algorithmic cultures from Latin America and the Global South
GABRIELA ELISA SUED, UNAM Emiliano Treré, JOMEC Cardiff University
Posted: February 28, 2022 Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol, Portuguese/Portugués
In recent years, European studies on datafication, platformization, and critical algorithm research have contributed concepts and methods to global research. Despite the fact that the approach to these issues has been limited in Latin America and the Global South, the traditions of Latin American studies have wide possibilities for the study of these new sociotechnical systems, whose reappropriations and agency possibilities vary according to the regions in which they are located. are implemented. Some of these possibilities were explored in recent research published in high-impact Latin American and global journals and publishers.
However, it is necessary to continue with the task of highlighting and promoting the contributions that communication studies in Latin America and the Global South can make to the understanding of these new issues from the approach of gender, race and class differences, the positions of minority groups in the face of the aforementioned sociotechnical phenomena, the algorithmic reappropriations and resistance of social movements, the links of datafication and algorithmization with human rights and digital citizenships, and the ways in which Artificial Intelligence is integrated into the social processes in the region, among others. In this context, we invite critical and collective reflection on the specificities of the ecosystems formed around datafication in Latin America and the Global South.
Keywords: datafication; platformization; artificial intelligence; critical studies of algorithms; algorithmic resistances; algorithmic power or governance
