David Nemer
Biographic Data
| ID | 281381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Nemer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Nemer |
| SIGNATURE | NEMER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8423-3917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Artificial intelligence as heteromation
This article interrogates the widespread narrative of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as autonomous, intelligent, and self-sufficient, and instead centers on the largely invisible human labor that sustains these systems. Drawing on the frameworks of heteromation and human infrastructure, we analyze how AI systems are deeply reliant on distributed networks of ghost workers, crowdworkers, and microtaskers, often working in precarious conditions, to pe…
A infraestrutura humana da desinformação
À medida que o cenário da informação continua a evoluir, a disseminação generalizada de desinformação está se proliferando em um ritmo e escala nunca antes vistos em uma sociedade democrática. Nos últimos anos, grandes empresas de tecnologia têm sido amplamente responsabilizadas publicamente por essa realidade, dado que seus algoritmos facilitam o compartilhamento de — e às vezes até promovem — informações falsas. Isso, no entanto, ignora uma rea…
Content analysis of political disinformation spread by Jair Bolsonaro on Twitter/X
Online disinformation has been a widespread phenomenon that has changed how people interact online and how politics is done in many countries, such as the United States and Brazil. Among the consequences, online disinformation can distort reality and influence how citizens see their political leader, creating identification and cultural meaning. Recently, far-right populist presidents have turned to social media platforms to engage in disinformat…
Tecnopolíticas e configurações extremistas na era das plataformas digitais
As the opening article of the dossier “Extremist Configurations in Latin America in the Era of Digital Platforms,” this paper offers a theoretical-analytical reflection on the reconfiguration of contemporary extremism, considering the datafication of life, platformization, and algorithmic governmentality within the recent populist context. It argues that growing political-populist polarization and the resulting radicalization of discourses are in…
Análise De Conteúdo Da Desinformação Política Disseminada Por Jair Bolsonaro No Twitter/X
A desinformação on-line tem sido um fenômeno generalizado que modificou como as pessoas interagem on-line e como a política é feita em muitos países, como Estados Unidos e Brasil. Dentre as consequências, a desinformação on-line pode distorcer a realidade e influenciar como os cidadãos enxergam seu líder político, criando identificação e significado cultural. Recentemente, presidentes populistas de extrema-direita se voltaram para as plataformas …
Unraveling Disinformation
In recent years, major technology companies have taken much of the public blame for this reality, given their algorithms facilitate the sharing of—and sometimes even promote—falsehoods. This, however, misses a key reality; social media, search engines, and messaging services are not fully automated technologies. Rather, they are heteromated: they are reliant on participatory humans to serve their economic goals. Focusing on users, and on the shar…
Technology of the Oppressed
Democracia Algoritmica
O uso de fórmulas algorítmicas para minerar dados extraídos das redes sociais, para elaborar perfis e induzir escolhas na política, além de resvalar na privacidade, reduz o debate de ideias que formam o pensamento livre, transformando as democracias em vultos espectrais. Esse cenário de disrupção, de hashtagzição da vida coletiva reduzindo o diálogo a rosnados coléricos e fake news, facilitou a desinformação e criou ambiente fértil para as milíci…
Disentangling Brazil’s Disinformation Insurgency
During my fieldwork in Brazil in December 2017, Neuza showed me a short video that she got in a WhatsApp group called “Bolsonaro our president.” In the video, Jair Bolsonaro tells Maria do Rosario
“When words become unclear”
Across the globe, our work and social lives are increasingly integrated with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), yet massive disparities in the values, uses and benefits of ICT exist. New methods are needed to shed light on unique and integrative concepts of ICT across cultures. This paper explores the use of visual methods to facilitate critical engagement with ICT—defined as situational awareness, reflexive ICT practice and power …
Reproducing hierarchies or resisting domination
The relationships among gender, institutional structures, and their associated physical spaces are made visible with the deployment and diffusion of technologies within said spaces. As such, we seek to explore the gendering of technology specifically exploring how users gender gaming spaces and gaming practices. In this article, we challenge the notion of ICTs and gender neutrality exploring how institutional frameworks as well as formal and info…
Repensando as desigualdades digitais
Este artigo centra-se nos usos das plataformas Web 2.0 por moradores de favelas a fim de expandir nossa compreensão sobre a capacidade de transformação que a Web 2.0 pode (e não pode) fazer em termos de mudança social e inclusão digital. Para explorar essa problemática, eu realizei uma etnografia de dez meses nas favelas de Vitória, Brasil, para estudar as práticas e experiências dos moradores das comunidades na Web 2.0. Eu analiso como a Web 2.0…
The human infrastructure of El Paquete, Cuba's offline internet
column Public Access Share on The human infrastructure of El Paquete, Cuba's offline internet Authors: Michaelanne Dye Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Profile , David Nemer University of Kentucky University of KentuckyView Profile , Josiah Mangiameli Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Amy Bruckman Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Prof…
Rethinking social change
This paper focuses on the uses of Web 2.0 platforms by residents of favelas, urban slums in Brazil, in order to expand our understanding of what Web 2.0 can and cannot do in terms of social change. To explore this problem space, I draw on a 10-month ethnography in the favelas of Vitória, Brazil to study slum residents’ Web 2.0 practices and engagements. I show how Web 2.0 afforded favela residents the ability to protest and cross social boundarie…
Reproducing hierarchies or resisting domination
The relationships among gender, institutional structures, and their associated physical spaces are made visible with the deployment and diffusion of technologies within said spaces. As such, we seek to explore the gendering of technology specifically exploring how users gender gaming spaces and gaming practices. In this article, we challenge the notion of ICTs and gender neutrality exploring how institutional frameworks as well as formal and info…
Rethinking social change
This paper focuses on the uses of Web 2.0 platforms by residents of favelas, urban slums in Brazil, in order to expand our understanding of what Web 2.0 can and cannot do in terms of social change. To explore this problem space, I draw on a 10-month ethnography in the favelas of Vitória, Brazil to study slum residents’ Web 2.0 practices and engagements. I show how Web 2.0 afforded favela residents the ability to protest and cross social boundarie…
The human infrastructure of El Paquete, Cuba's offline internet
column Public Access Share on The human infrastructure of El Paquete, Cuba's offline internet Authors: Michaelanne Dye Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Profile , David Nemer University of Kentucky University of KentuckyView Profile , Josiah Mangiameli Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Amy Bruckman Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Prof…
“When words become unclear”
Across the globe, our work and social lives are increasingly integrated with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), yet massive disparities in the values, uses and benefits of ICT exist. New methods are needed to shed light on unique and integrative concepts of ICT across cultures. This paper explores the use of visual methods to facilitate critical engagement with ICT—defined as situational awareness, reflexive ICT practice and power …
Reproducing hierarchies or resisting domination
The relationships among gender, institutional structures, and their associated physical spaces are made visible with the deployment and diffusion of technologies within said spaces. As such, we seek to explore the gendering of technology specifically exploring how users gender gaming spaces and gaming practices. In this article, we challenge the notion of ICTs and gender neutrality exploring how institutional frameworks as well as formal and info…
Repensando as desigualdades digitais
Este artigo centra-se nos usos das plataformas Web 2.0 por moradores de favelas a fim de expandir nossa compreensão sobre a capacidade de transformação que a Web 2.0 pode (e não pode) fazer em termos de mudança social e inclusão digital. Para explorar essa problemática, eu realizei uma etnografia de dez meses nas favelas de Vitória, Brasil, para estudar as práticas e experiências dos moradores das comunidades na Web 2.0. Eu analiso como a Web 2.0…
Democracia Algoritmica
O uso de fórmulas algorítmicas para minerar dados extraídos das redes sociais, para elaborar perfis e induzir escolhas na política, além de resvalar na privacidade, reduz o debate de ideias que formam o pensamento livre, transformando as democracias em vultos espectrais. Esse cenário de disrupção, de hashtagzição da vida coletiva reduzindo o diálogo a rosnados coléricos e fake news, facilitou a desinformação e criou ambiente fértil para as milíci…
Disentangling Brazil’s Disinformation Insurgency
During my fieldwork in Brazil in December 2017, Neuza showed me a short video that she got in a WhatsApp group called “Bolsonaro our president.” In the video, Jair Bolsonaro tells Maria do Rosario
Technology of the Oppressed
Unraveling Disinformation
In recent years, major technology companies have taken much of the public blame for this reality, given their algorithms facilitate the sharing of—and sometimes even promote—falsehoods. This, however, misses a key reality; social media, search engines, and messaging services are not fully automated technologies. Rather, they are heteromated: they are reliant on participatory humans to serve their economic goals. Focusing on users, and on the shar…
A infraestrutura humana da desinformação
À medida que o cenário da informação continua a evoluir, a disseminação generalizada de desinformação está se proliferando em um ritmo e escala nunca antes vistos em uma sociedade democrática. Nos últimos anos, grandes empresas de tecnologia têm sido amplamente responsabilizadas publicamente por essa realidade, dado que seus algoritmos facilitam o compartilhamento de — e às vezes até promovem — informações falsas. Isso, no entanto, ignora uma rea…
Content analysis of political disinformation spread by Jair Bolsonaro on Twitter/X
Online disinformation has been a widespread phenomenon that has changed how people interact online and how politics is done in many countries, such as the United States and Brazil. Among the consequences, online disinformation can distort reality and influence how citizens see their political leader, creating identification and cultural meaning. Recently, far-right populist presidents have turned to social media platforms to engage in disinformat…
Tecnopolíticas e configurações extremistas na era das plataformas digitais
As the opening article of the dossier “Extremist Configurations in Latin America in the Era of Digital Platforms,” this paper offers a theoretical-analytical reflection on the reconfiguration of contemporary extremism, considering the datafication of life, platformization, and algorithmic governmentality within the recent populist context. It argues that growing political-populist polarization and the resulting radicalization of discourses are in…
Análise De Conteúdo Da Desinformação Política Disseminada Por Jair Bolsonaro No Twitter/X
A desinformação on-line tem sido um fenômeno generalizado que modificou como as pessoas interagem on-line e como a política é feita em muitos países, como Estados Unidos e Brasil. Dentre as consequências, a desinformação on-line pode distorcer a realidade e influenciar como os cidadãos enxergam seu líder político, criando identificação e significado cultural. Recentemente, presidentes populistas de extrema-direita se voltaram para as plataformas …
Artificial intelligence as heteromation
This article interrogates the widespread narrative of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as autonomous, intelligent, and self-sufficient, and instead centers on the largely invisible human labor that sustains these systems. Drawing on the frameworks of heteromation and human infrastructure, we analyze how AI systems are deeply reliant on distributed networks of ghost workers, crowdworkers, and microtaskers, often working in precarious conditions, to pe…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Social media (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Disinformation (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works)