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 we continue our exploration of the intriguing contradictions of the EU’s digital policies. Our first piece takes a look at a year of the Digital Markets Act and what it has delivered. Our second piece probes into the inner workings of the EU Commission’s bureaucracy, drawing out some of the tensions that constrict the bloc’s ambitions to enact stronger industrial policy in the coming cycle. Last, though certainly not least, we look at the fragmented dynamics driving the EU’s standard-setting maneuvers within the tech policy space, and what they portend for the future.

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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.