Zhasmina Tacheva
Biographic Data
| ID | 2744243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhasmina Tacheva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhasmina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tacheva |
| SIGNATURE | TACHEVA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3859-5823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How social media produces “Cheap Europe”
Digital platforms increasingly mediate how socioeconomic unevenness becomes visible, often recoding structural inequality as consumable value. This article introduces the concept of digital Balkanism to explain how platformed travel content reworks long-standing intra-European hierarchies. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis of 108 English-language YouTube videos about Bulgaria, we identify five recurring frames: cheapness-as-freedom, therap…
Ai Abolition as Decolonial Rupture in Ai Empire
Existing research has long established that AI is not just a collection of technical tools but an expansive system of governance: what scholars refer to as AI empire - deeply embedded in racial capitalism, carceral logics, colonial control, and heteropatriarchy (Crawford, 2021; Tacheva & Ramasubramanian, 2023). However, much of the critical scholarship in AI studies tends to focus on AI’s most visible harms, such as mass surveillance, biased deci…
Ai as “Unstoppable” and Other Inevitability Narratives in Tech
The world today is awash with narratives of artificial intelligence (AI) as an "inevitable," "unstoppable" force destined to "revolutionize" society. Using the concept of "entanglement" from Black and Indigenous feminist science, technology, and society studies, we provide a critical examination of the AI industry's complex intersections with sociopolitical dynamics, technological determinism, and oppression. Instead of viewing AI advancement as …
AI Empire
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to captivate the collective imagination through the latest generation of generative AI models such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, the dehumanizing and harmful features of the technology industry that have plagued it since its inception only seem to deepen and intensify. Far from a "glitch" or unintentional error, these endemic issues are a function of the interlocking systems of oppression upon which AI is built.…
Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science
Through a critical analysis of recent developments in the theory and practice of data science, including nascent feminist approaches to data collection and analysis, this commentary aims to signal the need for a transnational feminist orientation towards data science. I argue that while much needed in the context of persistent algorithmic oppression, a Western feminist lens limits the scope of problems, and thus-solutions, critical data scholars,…
AI Empire
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to captivate the collective imagination through the latest generation of generative AI models such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, the dehumanizing and harmful features of the technology industry that have plagued it since its inception only seem to deepen and intensify. Far from a "glitch" or unintentional error, these endemic issues are a function of the interlocking systems of oppression upon which AI is built.…
Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science
Through a critical analysis of recent developments in the theory and practice of data science, including nascent feminist approaches to data collection and analysis, this commentary aims to signal the need for a transnational feminist orientation towards data science. I argue that while much needed in the context of persistent algorithmic oppression, a Western feminist lens limits the scope of problems, and thus-solutions, critical data scholars,…
Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science
Through a critical analysis of recent developments in the theory and practice of data science, including nascent feminist approaches to data collection and analysis, this commentary aims to signal the need for a transnational feminist orientation towards data science. I argue that while much needed in the context of persistent algorithmic oppression, a Western feminist lens limits the scope of problems, and thus-solutions, critical data scholars,…
AI Empire
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to captivate the collective imagination through the latest generation of generative AI models such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, the dehumanizing and harmful features of the technology industry that have plagued it since its inception only seem to deepen and intensify. Far from a "glitch" or unintentional error, these endemic issues are a function of the interlocking systems of oppression upon which AI is built.…
Ai as “Unstoppable” and Other Inevitability Narratives in Tech
The world today is awash with narratives of artificial intelligence (AI) as an "inevitable," "unstoppable" force destined to "revolutionize" society. Using the concept of "entanglement" from Black and Indigenous feminist science, technology, and society studies, we provide a critical examination of the AI industry's complex intersections with sociopolitical dynamics, technological determinism, and oppression. Instead of viewing AI advancement as …
How social media produces “Cheap Europe”
Digital platforms increasingly mediate how socioeconomic unevenness becomes visible, often recoding structural inequality as consumable value. This article introduces the concept of digital Balkanism to explain how platformed travel content reworks long-standing intra-European hierarchies. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis of 108 English-language YouTube videos about Bulgaria, we identify five recurring frames: cheapness-as-freedom, therap…
Ai Abolition as Decolonial Rupture in Ai Empire
Existing research has long established that AI is not just a collection of technical tools but an expansive system of governance: what scholars refer to as AI empire - deeply embedded in racial capitalism, carceral logics, colonial control, and heteropatriarchy (Crawford, 2021; Tacheva & Ramasubramanian, 2023). However, much of the critical scholarship in AI studies tends to focus on AI’s most visible harms, such as mass surveillance, biased deci…
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)