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This paper presents an exploratory study of image banks, specifically Getty Images and Shutterstock, analyzing whether their tagging processes reveal algorithmic forms of reproducing colonial mentalities about black women. From Patricia Hill Collins' concept of "controlling images," Jezebel, Mammy, and Sapphire images were examined, understanding that these stereotypes of black female subjectivity underscore narratives of subordination, exploitation, and animalization in the service of coloniality. While the results show specificities, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we found that algorithmic coloniality becomes apparent in these banks, which frequently tag the images of black women under colonial representation standards of labor, sexuality, and aggressiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this theoretical articulation based on bibliographic research, the culture of intolerance, driven by the political context of hyperneoliberalism, is linked to the imaginary present on algorithmic platforms, where a fundamental mode of governance is practiced today. While not ignoring past manifestations of intolerance on the Internet, this paper intends to demonstrate how these platforms are environments even more favorable for such manifestations, given the peculiarities of their technology and their business model. To this end, certain aspects of their operation, classified as arena of attention, uneven omnimediation, calibrated exposure and flexible veridiction, are related to dispositions that Lacan associates with the imaginary and aggressiveness - respectively, narcissism, narcissistic identification with leaders, segregation and paranoia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between data practice and algorithmic actions on digital platforms. For this purpose, we do a descriptive analysis of Instagram documents that are addressed to its users, identifying what suggests action and practical consequence of digital materialities in terms of production, sharing and collection. Through them we identify the centrality of experience in this kind of informational construct developed in relation to datafication processes - which we call algorithmic experience. From a pragmatist and neomaterialist perspective, we suggest following this experience to understand the practical differences produced in the use of digital platforms and identifying relevant interactions in situated practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Algorithms have become the focus of discussions on technology whether involving the role of social networks in our everyday life or the promise of a generalized coding of various occupations. This paper intends to unravel the importance of algorithms for capitalism from the advent of the Third Industrial Revolution in three functions: (1) to expand the everyday life colonization by the market and by the State, a task formerly exercised only by the cultural industry, (2) increase the limits of the subsumption of labor by capital, and (3) improving existing forms of precarious work. Finally, we present possible solutions for working class organization of the working in the contemporary scenario of precariousness and withdrawal of labor rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]