Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century

Contents
List of Figur es and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Theorising the Algorithmic Condition: Challenges, Strategies, and Perspectives • Dariusz Brzeziński, Kamil Filipek, Kuba Piwowar and Malgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska
Part I: The Algorithmic Revolution: New Theoretical Frameworks
	1 A Theory of Algorithmic Sociality (TaS) • Robert Seyfert
	2 Theorising Artificial Intelligence as Practice • Kamil Filipek
Part II: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and the Theories of Modernity
	3 Images of Algorithmic Modernity: Agency and Autonomy in the Age of Predictive Analytics • Anthony Elliott
	4 Zuckerberg’s Cave: Smartness and Discipline in Digital Modernity • Kieron O’Hara
Part III: Theory, Culture, and Society in the Algorithmic Condition
	5 Algorithmic Nostalgia: Longing for the Past in the Age of Artificial Intelligence • Dariusz Brzeziński
	6 Socio-cultural Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) and Journalism: A Transdisciplinary Perspective in Media and Communication Studies • Malgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska and Katalin Feher
	7 Narrating AI Stories: Selected Strategies • Mirosław Filiciak and Kuba Piwowar
Part IV: Theorising AI-Driven Power and Politics
	8 If (world2vec) Then vec2politics: On Machine Learning and the Performativity of Recursive Power • Nicolas Chartier-Edwards, Etienne Grenier and Jonathan Roberge
	9 Generative AI, Big Tech and the Value of Political Economy Analysis for the Sociology of Artificial Intelligence • Zheng Liu
	10 Four Models of Algorithmic Bureaucracy in China • Baogang He and Jinjin Wu
Part V: Critical Theory of Artificial Intelligence
	11 Social Inequalities and Artificial Intelligence: How Digital Inequality Scholarship Enhances Our Understanding • Christoph Lutz
	12 AI Racial Bias: How Text-to-Image Artificial Intelligence Generators Construct Prestigious Professions • Anna M. Górska and Dariusz Jemielniak
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