Digital Racial: Algorithmic Violence and Digital Platforms - Hardcover

by Yasmin Ibrahim (Author)

The book examines how new media technologies supplant and sustain racism in the digital age through its hidden logic of algorithms and mimetic machines.

Author Biography

Yasmin Ibrahim is Professor in Digital Economy and Culture at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research explores the socio-cultural dimensions of digital technologies and its implications for humanity. She teaches on the digital economy and has published numerous books and articles on the topic. She also writes extensively on race, migration, border controls, Islam and terrorism. Her recent books include Posthuman Capitalism; Dancing with Data in the Digital Economy, Migrants, Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and 'Unmaking' the Human and Technologies of Trauma; Cultural Formations over time.