Critical Political Economy and Southern Approaches to AI

A Dialogue

Buch | Hardcover

IV, 167 Seiten

2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-14089-0 (ISBN)

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This book presents a dialogue between two seemingly incompatible bodies of social theories - Critical Political Economy and Southern approaches - to the study of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. In doing so, the book presents scholarly engagement with the ways in which AI is being experienced in sites in the Global South, with authors exploring questions of sociality, further entrenching of inequities along labour and caste lines, socio-legal ramifications of digital IDs, and undesired outcomes such as deepfakes and their integration in the political ecosystem, among others. These perspectives interrogate and provide scholarly vocabulary to understand the various applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in our professional, legal and media spaces.

Preeti Raghunath is a Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield, UK. Over the past decade, she has traversed academic landscapes in India, Malaysia and the UK. Her research interests have broadly explored global communication, with a focus on policies, infrastructures and people. She conducted an expansive policy ethnography on community radio in South Asia, which was published as Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her current theoretical and empirical research is on the global AI and data economy, especially as they play out in the Global South. Preeti has served as a research consultant with the United Nations University, Macau on projects on AI and its policies in Southeast Asia, and digital transformation and sustainability.

Introduction. - Conversing Across Incommensurables?.-Critical Political Economy and Southern Approaches to Artificial Intelligence.-Data, anthropology and the political economy of objectified knowledge.-The Hidden Cost of AI Colonialism.-The Plight of Female Gig Workers in Indonesia.-An attempt to authenticate deepfakes.-India s state-tech collaboration .-The Brazilian State and Human Rights.-Citizen Identification and Informational Separation of Powers.-Rising Caste Bias in Indian AI .- Epilogue.-From Frontier Technologies to Frontier Lives.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business
Zusatzinfo	IV, 167 p. 9 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Artificial Intelligence • Critical political economy • digital afterlives • Machine Learning Technologies • southern theorising • the south
ISBN-10	3-032-14089-7 / 3032140897
ISBN-13	978-3-032-14089-0 / 9783032140890
Zustand	Neuware