Do social media and digital systems of automation amplify social inequalities?

What is digital inequality and why does it matter?

Can digital inequality heighten social inequality?

Support your answer drawing on empirical examples / case studies. Consider the gendered and racialised dimensions of inequality.

Do social media depend on the extraction of labor from the global south?

What is the relationship between social media, big data, systems of automation and infrastructures of artificial intelligence such as bio-metrics?

Do social media and systems of automation create new types of inequality? Can you think of some examples?