[Air-L] #AOIR2016 special issue of Information, Communication & Society

[Michael T Zimmer]

Pleased to announce that the #AOIR2016 special issue of Information, Communication & Society is now live: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/20/6

Contents include:

Platform values: an introduction to the #AoIR16 special issue
Koen Leurs & Michael Zimmer

A river by any other name: Ganga/Ganges and the postcolonial politics of knowledge on Wikipedia
Sangeet Kumar

Making sense? The structure and meanings of digital memetic nonsense
Yuval Katz & Limor Shipman

Gender and self-enterprise in the social media age: a digital double bind
Brooke Erin Duffy & Urszula Pruchniewska

Neoliberal gremlins? How a scheme to help disadvantaged young people thrive online fell short of its ambitions
Huw C. Davies, Rebecca Eynon & Sarah Wilkin

The dark side of online participation: exploring non-, passive and negative participation
Christoph Lutz & Christian Pieter Hoffmann

Platform labor: on the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-income service work in the ‘on-demand’ economy
Niels van Doorn

Analytics in action: users and predictive data in the neonatal intensive care unit
Claire Maiers

Platformed racism: the mediation and circulation of an Australian race-based controversy on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández


Many thanks to our reviewers, and to the organizers of #AOIR2016!

Michael (and Koen)


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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies
Director, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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