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1. 1. Inevitable Algorimages : The Necropolitical Infrastructure of YouTube's Digital Dispositif

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

   Author : Leo Hansson Nilson; [2019]
   Keywords : YouTube; dispositif; control; power; archive; subjectification; algorithms; database; interface; necropolitics; infrastructure; mode of production; protocol; capitalism; machines; spectacle;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the relation between technology and the social, how they determine and naturalize each other, by examining YouTube's socio-technical infrastructure. YouTube is theorized as a dispositif that produces regimes of knowledge, power and subjectification within "control societies" characterized by an informational mode of production. READ MORE