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 bring you analysis and commentary from different conjunctures of the Global South’s platform economies. Our first piece chronicles how the battle between app stores and developers is playing out in the Indian context, and deliberates on some of the policy responses that have been proposed. Our second piece of the month draws on first-hand empirical research with workers in Africa, in order to shed light on the novel kinds of economic domination being engendered in algorithmically mediated labor.

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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.