DIGSUM is happy to present a new issue of The Journal of Digital Social Research, our open access journal. This special issue, with guest editors Fenwick McKelvey, Jonathan Roberge, Joanna Redden and Luke Stark, focus on “(Un)Stable Diffusions: The Publics, Publicities, and Publicizations of Generative AI”. Read the full issue [here].
The issue contains:
(Un)stable diffusions: the publics, publicities, and publicizations of generative AI
Fenwick McKelvey, Joanna Redden, Jonathan Roberge & Luke Stark
“A.I. is holding a mirror to our society”: Lensa and the discourse of visual generative AI
Kate M. Miltner
Automated hiring platforms as mythmaking machines and their symbolic economy
Etienne Grenier & Nicholas Chartier-Edwards
A sign that spells: Machinic concepts and the racial politics of generative AI
Fabian Offert & Thao Phan
The technological drama of AI: From private power to player engagement with AlphaGo
Xerxes Minocher
AI policymaking as drama: Stages, roles, and ghosts in AI governance in the United Kingdom and Canada
Alison Powell & Fenwick McKelvey
Strategic misrecognition and speculative rituals in generative AI
Sun-ha Hong
Getting democracy wrong: How lessons from biotechnology can illuminate limits of the Asilomar AI principles
Gwendolyn Blue & Mél Hogan
X-gram and/as techsposure: Spelling out the climate consequences of generative AI
Crystal Chokshi
JDSR publishes high-quality articles within all areas of digital social research, including sociology, informatics, pedagogy, education science, gender studies, law, economy, social work and geography. We welcome and encourage cross-disciplinary submissions. Submit your own work [here].