Contemporary Communication Issues. "Modernity" and "Traditions"

This session aims to compare digital formations in different domains, regimes, and regions. Papers are welcome that address questions such as: Who captures the benefits of productivity gains, who loses out, and on what factors does this depend on? How do working conditions and employment relations change? How are election campaigns and their outcomes influenced? Who contests the power of oligopolies? What ethics and regulatory approaches shape and control big data and artificial intelligence? How do nation-states impose cyberwalls or social credit systems? Who contests the dominant trends, and how? What values, strategies, and visions are in play? What tasks should be on the agenda for sociological research