...Shuang Liu Purpose This article develops the framework of programmed power to theorize how digital platform infrastructures transform the conditions under which organizational programmes operate and decisions become observable. Drawing on Luhmann's systems theory, it asks what happens...

... and emancipatory dimensions of AI, along with its ideological foundations, are central not only to understanding the power structures and ideologies shaping AI's trajectory but also to developing inclusive, people-centred AI policies that prioritise the well-being of humans, animals and the planet. This calls...

.... This paper focuses on some, but not all, ethically problematic aspects of SNS, particularly privacy and transparency. It also looks beyond the customary topics of information and communication technology (ICT) ethics to open up other, less visible but equally profound issues around power, freedom...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Green computing/Green IT Socio-technical theory Literature review Power Critical theory Theory building This section is divided into three subsections. In the first one, ecological WST is discussed in relation to the Marxian critique of ICT...