Understanding Digital Racism: Networks, Algorithms, Scale - Hardcover

by Sanjay Sharma (Author)

This book studies the digital realm as a race-makingtechnologyby examining contemporary racismand offering an innovative approach for understanding how racism is manifested and remade through digital technologies.

Author Biography

Sanjay Sharma is an associate professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK. His research critically interrogates how existing and new forms of biopolitical control are constituted via digital technologies, media and culture. He has published widely on the intersections of race, technology and power, by grasping how race and racism are emergent digital phenomena, mutating through entanglements with networked relations, algorithmic profiling, datafication, platform architectures and economies.