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Workers vs. Platforms: The Battle That Will Define the Future of Labor

“Poetry is not a Luxury”: Cultural work as Essential Labor

Invisible Hands, Visible Futures: The Rise of Africa’s Data Worker Movement in the Age of AI

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Freedom of Hate Speech? » Bot Populi

Digital Governance in an Unraveling World - DataSyn

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Tragedy, Farce, or Ashes of the Old Order?  » Bot Populi

The Shifting Sands of Tech Politics - DataSyn

Alternative Futures and Troubled Presents - DataSyn

Possibilism in the Age of AI » Bot Populi

The Mythology of Platform Capitalism - DataSyn

Whither Digital Economy? » Bot Populi

Movies That Don’t Move Anyone: In Defense of Embodied Filmmaking » Bot Populi

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Platform Power and the Future of Work: Labor Frontiers in the Cross-Border Digital Economy

WSIS and the Movement to Democratize Communication

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WSIS and the Movement to Democratize Communication

Trade Rules vs. Tax Rights: Africa’s Digital Dilemma

Between Tariffs and Tech: What Will Europe Choose?

Trump’s Tariffs and the Big Tech Takeover

Analyzing the India-UK Free Trade Agreement

Dirty Laundry: My Journey Through the Algorithm from Soweto to Nairobi’s Tech Hub

The Algorithm’s Ghost Workers and the Illusion of Opportunity

Platform Capitalism in Emergency Healthcare

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Moving Towards Local and People-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Fourth Agricultural Revolution: Who Bears The Costs, Who Gains The Benefits?

The Golden Age of AI: Power, Politics, and Trade

Trumpism and Techno-Politics at the Periphery

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Gig Worker

The Challenges of Digitization and Democracy in Peripheral Countries

Just-in-Time Knowledge: Digital Technology and The Neoliberal Transformation of Education

The Year Big Tech Came for Democracy

Gendering Information Integrity: Lessons from Feminist Scholarship to Media Policy

The Human Experience of Information Integrity in 2024

A ‘How-To’ Guide to Transforming the Media and Information Ecosystem

UN Global Principles on Information Integrity: A Missed Opportunity

The Circuits of Information in the Year of Elections

The Draghi Report: A View from the South

The Year Big Tech Came for Democracy

The UN Tax Treaty and Digital Justice Today

Big Tech from the South: Thinking Beyond Data Colonialism in Latin America

Statistical Sovereignty, Democracy and Big Tech: Challenges of Datafication for National States

The Global Digital Compact is Here: What Now for Civil Society?

DataSyn October 2024 Issue

Algorithmic Shackles: Eroding Worker Autonomy in the Majority World

Developers vs. App Stores: A Case for Separation Remedies

DataSyn September 2024 Issue

Global Digital Compact: Back-sliding to a Failed Free-market Playbook?

On Global Platforms and Local Capitalisms

The Imperatives of Digital Governance Today

DataSyn August 2024 Issue

Man vs Machine: Whose AI Are We Talking About?

DataSyn July 2024 Issue

DMA, One Year On: Taking Stock of the EU’s Attempts to Rein In Big Tech

‘Competitiveness without Competition’: What EU’s Proposed Digital Economy Reboot Gets Wrong

European Introspection Standing in the Way of Global Leadership

DataSyn June 2024 Issue

Soft Power Histrionics: Surveying the EU’s Global Gateway

Championing an Industrial Policy for Public Good, Not Corporate Profits

A Tale of Twin Transitions: Why EU’s Green and Digital Agendas are at Odds

DataSyn May 2024 Issue

EcoMinassat Podcast

The Global Digital Compact We Need for People and the Planet

Labor and Artificial Intelligence: Emergent Frontiers of Struggle

2024 May Day Special Issue - DataSyn

Reassessing Big Tech’s Impact and Disruptive Force in Africa’s Fintech Landscape

How Fintech Became the Gateway to Predatory Lending in Sub-Saharan Africa

Towards Fairer Horizons: Cooperativist Solutions to Tackle Platform Capitalism

The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration on A New Innovation Ecosystem for Our Collective Digital Futures | IT for Change

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What Does Trade Have to Do with AI Regulation?

A New Colonialist Wave through Digital Trade Agreements

Uncle Sam and Big Tech: The End of a Love Affair?

Owning Platform Cooperativism(s): With More Voices, Sans Tech Solutionism

Big Tech and News Media in India: The Frenemies Who Control What We Read

Right to Repair and the Fight against Planned Obsolescence

The Evolution of Big Tech Litigation

Decoding Meta’s Infrastructural Turn in Africa: Access with Strings

Dethroning the All-powerful AI: Developing Ethics for a Demystified AI

AI is Africa’s New Growth Mantra, but Can it Fix Development?

Feeding the World with More Data?

How Fintech Became the Gateway to Predatory Lending in Sub-Saharan Africa

Responsible AI’s Inherent Trade-Offs: Let’s Talk About Resources, Rights and Power

The New Silk Route: On China, Neo-colonialism and Cyber Extractivism in Africa

Who Learns and Who Profits in the Era of Artificial Intelligence?

What’s Public about India’s Digital Public Infrastructures?

Generative AI and Education: Adopting a Critical Approach

Missing the Target? Why the OECD Updates Fail to See the Full Picture on Digitalization

Flying the KITE High against Digital Colonialism: FOSS in the Era of EdTech

The Recipe for India’s Gatekeeper Regulation

Pragmatic Deal or Tragic Compromise? Reflections on the UN SG’s Policy Brief on the GDC

Governing Food System Data: Is the UN Committee on World Food Security Up to the Task?

Meet the New Influencers: Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Data for Artificial Intelligence: Could This Be a Game Changer?

How Latin America Became a Theater of the US-China Tech War

“Unions Raise the Floor, Co-ops Can Raise the Ceiling”: Erik Forman

Labor and Platform Capital: Dispatches from Europe

Lessons from the EU Platform Work Directive

From Land to Data: Value-extraction in Smart Cities

Crypto Imperialism and Financial Inclusion in Africa

Towards the Construction of a Feminist Digital Justice Agenda: Challenges and Proposals

Digital Transformation for Gender Equality: Will ‘Inclusion’ and ‘Diversity’ Alone Get Us There?

Making Platforms Work for Workers – Data Commons and Platform Co-ops

The Global Debate on Food Security Data: More Open-washing?

Gender-based Abuse on the Metaverse: The New Internet is Being Coded on a Toxic Palimpsest

Platforms and the Risk of Precarity

Who Run the World (of platforms)? Algorithmic Bosses and Workers’ Rights

Platforms – The Origin Story

The Human Labor of Automation

Big Tech Makes Political Choices About Our Data: We Should do the Same

Digital Justice is a Matter of Environmental Justice. Or at least, it Should be

Dismantling Digital Enclosures: Reflections from the State of Big Tech

A Southern Perspective: The Missing Piece in ERFs

“The Best Platforms Remain Unwritten…:” Alistair Fraser on Data Grabs, Slow Computing and More

Platform Capitalism in Murky Financial Waters

‘Mind the Gap’: Sexuality Education in the Digital Era in China

Big Tech is Ready to ‘Transform’ Food Systems, but for whose Benefit?

Great Men Simply Know Better: How the Twitter Takeover Exposes One of Big Tech’s Most Harmful Traits

The Nth Rooms and the Ungovernable Digital Bodies

Resisting Patriarchal Logics of Digital ID Systems

Fintech Wild West: Whose Duty to Act?

Fintech and Poverty in and Beyond the Pandemic

Capitalizing on Vulnerabilities: When Surveillance Capitalism Meets Mental Health

Artificial Intelligence and the Feminist Decolonial Imagination

Time for Upgrade: Why Competition Law is Not Enough for the Platform Economy

Feminist Responses to Technology-Facilitated Violence

Davos 2022 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Amay Korjan and Avantika Tiwari

The Assetization of our Social Life- Kean Birch

Rescuing Our Common Agenda from the Post-democratic Abyss

A Platformed Response to Hate Speech Against Women

Feminist Re-imagining of Platform Planet | Special Issue

Protecting Dissent

Social Relations under Surveillance Capitalism: Is Solidarity Still Possible?

Digging Deeper: Assessing Big Tech’s Capture of the Internet’s Infrastructure

“I feel empowered…but you have to have a thick skin”

What Is Feminist Digital (In)justice?

Smart Cities in India: Of Data Governance and Democratic Deficits

Putting Users Back in Control of Car Data to Fuel Innovations

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Worker-Led Alternatives: A Line of Hope for New Platform Futures

Fixing Digital Capitalism: Learning from China’s Playbook

Data Sovereignty and Alternative Development Models

Why Metaphors for Data Matter

Why India Needs a Legal Instrument to Tackle Online Hate

Recognizing People's Sovereignty Over Data

Choosing Public Good Over Corporate Power

Beyond Profit and Efficiency

Opportunities for Strategic Intervention

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The Exception Cannot Be Made the Norm: Covid-19 and the Right to Health

Cyber Safe Girl: How Not to Write a Cyber Safety e-Book

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Seven Questions Unpacking Cancel Culture

The Valley and the Virus

Deep Unlearning? AI and Africa’s Struggling Public Institutions

Trump and CDA Section 230: The End of an Internet Exception?

Networked Desolation in Indonesia’s Platform Tourism Industry

A 3-Point Agenda for Platform Workers; as if the South Matters

How Public Sector Workers and Unions can Shape the Digital Economy

Beauty and the Platform Economy

‘Crowds as Code’ in the Global Data Value Chain

Articulating a Feminist Response to Online Hate Speech: First Steps

Avoiding the Trap of the Singular Data Story

Imagining a Feminist Future of Work in the Global South

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