Blar i Faculty of Humanities på forfatter "de Seta, Gabriele"
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Gateways, sieves and domes: On the infrastructural topology of the Chinese stack
de Seta, Gabriele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article proposes a topological model capable of accounting for the scale and complexity of China’s digital infrastructure. Beginning with the troubled development of a submarine data cable between Los Angeles and Hong ... -
Huanlian, or changing faces: Deepfakes on Chinese digital media platforms
de Seta, Gabriele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In China, deepfakes are commonly known as huanlian, which literally means “changing faces.” Huanlian content, including face-swapped images and video reenactments, has been circulating in China since at least 2018, at first ... -
Imagining machine vision: Four visual registers from the Chinese AI industry
de Seta, Gabriele; Shchetvina, Anya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Machine vision is one of the main applications of artificial intelligence. In China, the machine vision industry makes up more than a third of the national AI market, and technologies like face recognition, object tracking ... -
Private messages from the field: Confessions on digital ethnography and its discomforts
Abidin, Crystal; de Seta, Gabriele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This special issue collects the confessions of five digital ethnographers laying bare their methodological failures, disciplinary posturing, and ethical dilemmas. The articles are meant to serve as a counseling stations ... -
QR code: The global making of an infrastructural gateway
de Seta, Gabriele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article traces the history of machine-readable data encoding standards and argues that the QR code has become an infrastructural gateway. Through the analysis of patents, corporate documents and advertising, ethnographic ... -
Three lies of digital ethnography
de Seta, Gabriele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The relative novelty of digital ethnography as a research methodology, along with the challenges that it moves to classical understandings of fieldwork, participation and representation, results in a repertoire of professional ...