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Journal Article
Challenging Technological Utopianism
2018
Overview
Both newspapers reported that 50-million Facebook profiles of Americans were harvested by data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, in developing tools to support Donald Trump's campaign in the United States 2016 presidential election. Keywords for this special issue include animal rights, Canada, citizen journalism, computer science, crowdsourcing, driving, electronic culture (internet-based), embodiment, feminism, gender, framing, Indigenous rights, legacy media, memes, portability, Reddit, Saudi Arabia, seal hunts, social media, socio-technical, stereotypes, Sweet Brown, Syria, #sealfie, technological utopianism, technology, Twitter, and WomemDrive. Cases covered in this special issue also highlight the lived experiences of different social groups, including under-represented ones such as low-income African Americans, the Indigenous communities, and Arab women. [...]Bumble's infrastructure restricts the app's capacity to achieve its creator's stated social justice objectives.
