Big Tech.
We do so in order to unpack the techno-economic "black box" represented by these Big Tech firms, reflecting on their dominance of both technoscience and political economy through their configuration and reconfiguration of techno-economic claims, narratives, conditions, practices, and processes. Acco...
| Publicado en: | Science as Culture Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15 |
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