Hello and welcome to Bot Populi! We are an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. We aim to meaningfully shape the public discourse on digitalization and prompt important conversations about transformative change for a better digital future.

To this end, we explore how the digital world affects different aspects of our lives in obvious and unexpected ways. Our contributors include passionate and committed scholars, activists, and visionaries from around the world working on issues of digital justice.

DataSyn

In this issue of Datasyn, we have a series of dispatches from different parts of the Global South. Each surveying a key facet of our contemporary digital sphere, and its excesses. Our first piece looks to adapt social reproduction theory to the platform era. Our second piece, drawing on cases from Latin America, looks at the way digital media and democracy interact in peripheral countries. Last but not least, our third piece delves into the incursions of digitalization into the Indian education system, and its acceleration of profit-driven models therein.

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Engage with our diverse thematic tracks examining various facets of our digital world. We explore labor issues in the digital economy, provide critiques of corporate excess and surveillance capitalism, examine feminist issues in the online sphere, investigate developments in AI and tech policy, and much more.