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Alexander Halavais is Associate Professor of Data & Society at Arizona State University, where he researches ways in which automation and datafication change the nature of learning and allow for new forms of collaboration and self-government. He directs the MA in Social Technologies / Data & Society program. The second edition of his Search Engine Society was published by Polity in 2017, and he has published more than fifty articles and book chapters on the relationship of emerging technologies to social change. He is working on a book tentatively titled Automating Revolution.