한국판 플랫폼 기술사회의 형성과 질곡

This study intends to find the historical birth of the current techno-society in which, despite the convenience and efficiency of life that advanced technology has brought to our society, it has become a double-edged sword, reproducing or amplifying extreme antagonism, conflict, and the labor crisis. This study traces the processes of techno-power formation in our society: the so-called “techno-socialization” process, in which the government sector seeks to make IT the core logic of social operations, and “platformization,” the market desire of platform capital. In other words, this study traces back historically how the platform techno-social order built by our government and domestic and foreign Big Tech eventually became an emerging technocratic power that captured the autonomous political and everyday communicative capacities of domestic citizens and catalyzed and amplified extreme social conflicts. To concretize this, this study examines the historical process by which the social power of platforms, artificial intelligence (AI) and other intelligent information technologies has increased since the 2010s: On the one hand, in the institutional domain, this study examines the impact of a series of IT innovation policy initiatives such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution Committee and the Digital New Deal during the Moon Jae-in administration, as well as the rapid techno-social transition to a quarantine “security” state system intensified by COVID-19. On the other hand, in the industrial realm, it critically examines the negative effects that “platformization” by the big Tech with platform engines has done on our society, especially on human labor and everyday political culture.