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Forthcoming Nov. 2025, Emerald Publishing, ISBN: 9781805923961

Use code EME30 to get 30% off this title at bookstore.emerald.com Digital Futures between Domination and Participation Edited by Markus S. SCHULZ and Isabel da COSTA

Digital technologies from the Internet and social media to artificial intelligence and robotics are reshaping the world. They offer joy, participation, and higher productivity, but they have also brought disruption, alienation, control, oppression, and exacerbated inequalities. This volume explores this ongoing transformation and its social implications between domination and participation. Outcomes at any given time are not taken as predetermined but as results of the decisions by a range of diverse social actors who compete, cooperate, or conflict with one another and can draw on differential access to resources within shifting political-legal frameworks and structural contexts. Scholars of communication, media studies, sociology, political ecology, employment and labor relations, science and technology come together to examine the social shaping of digital futures across different world regions and domains.

- Contributing to these fields, the volume highlights the merits of interdisciplinary research and transnational perspectives to illuminate the intricate complexity in which digital technologies are shaped by and are shaping social relations of power between domination and participation. The authors present critical case studies that make timely progress toward a deeper understanding of these new dynamics and toward broadening the horizon for imagining preferable democratic future alternatives.

Content

Markus S. SCHULZ Digital Futures between Domination and Participation:

Introduction Markus S. SCHULZ Participatory Visions and Dominating Realities: Beyond the History of Digital Future

Stefan LÜCKING Beyond the Black Box: Negotiating Artificial Intelligence at the Workplace

Cong PENG Struggling for Power over Time: Freelance Writers in China’s Cultural and Creative Industries

Tin-Yuet TING Two Tales of Digital Self-Entrepreneurship

Rima ŽILINSKAITĖ Digitalization, Participation, and Science: Citizen Science as Type(s) of Prosumption

Attila MÁRTON A Digital Future of Resilience: What Can We Learn from Ecological Thinking

Isabel da COSTA Conclusion