Surveillance Capitalism
(or the economic sociology behind the AI hype)
How does the market construct facial recognition technology as a legitimate commodity?
How does open science consolidate rather than undermine corporate power over artificial intelligence (and all the hype about it)?
How does surveillance capitalism revise Weber’s thesis of rationalization and Foucault’s idea of governmentality?
Computational Social Science
(or the shoe leather and linear algebra behind the AI hype)
How can we leverage large language models not to substitute, but to advance ethnographic methods?
How can we study text as networks?
Temporal and Spatial Inequality
(or what we really live through when we live through inequality)
How do temporal inequalities translate resource disparities into unequal agency in making life-and-death decisions in cancer clinics?
How do spatial inequalities shape neighborhood vulnerability to and resilience against crises?