This Special Issue brings together a range of social science and humanities perspectives on the relationships among automation, digital media and everyday life. We have aimed to get beyond the current hype and anxieties around self-driving cars, algorithms and robotics, and to achieve a more precise and grounded understanding of exactly what might be meant by automation, how and with what effects it is becoming entangled with everyday life and how investigating these relationships also helps us in understanding processes of media change in society more broadly.
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