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

This month on DataSyn, we shed light on the madness of the Trump 2.0 age and what it means in the struggle for digital justice. Our first piece tracks the AI space, analyzing the recent summit for clues as to what the future may hold for this now hyper-politicized industry. Our second piece takes up the standpoint of the global south, looking to survey the repercussions of these new international dynamics for its own digital ambitions. Finally, our third feature zeros in on the digital transformation of our food systems, and the thorny geo-political dimension of this disruptive process.

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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.