A review of Mirca Madianou’s book Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful
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Reading Technocolonialism: The Infrastructures of Caring From a Distance
Extracting the Planet from Planetary AI
Locating the material costs of AI hype.
- Big Tech Watch
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Digital Justice, Neoliberalism and the World of Perma- and Poly-crisis
Given the rise of technofeudal capitalism, what is at stake is public value creation and distribution: how we claim public value, how we compute its creation and flows, and how we prevent its private capture.
- Big Tech Watch
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On Humans In The Loop
A filmmaker’s view on telling the story of AI from the margins
- Big Tech Watch
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Social Media is Someone’s Office
Drawing attention to content creation as labor
- Big Tech Watch
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Dirty Laundry: My Journey Through the Algorithm from Soweto to Nairobi’s Tech Hub
A former Meta content moderator opens up about working in the Global South “digital sweatshops” that keep Big Tech running.
- Big Tech Watch
- Article
The Algorithm’s Ghost Workers and the Illusion of Opportunity
The testimony of a data worker
- Big Tech Watch
- Article
The Data Workers’ Inquiry
Lessons learned from the core team
- Big Tech Watch
- Article
The Work of Music in the Age of Platformization
The massive power imbalance between musicians and the music streaming industry is hurting the creators and consumers.
- Big Tech Watch
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Navigating Digital Sovereignty in the Era of Great Power Rivalry
In search of sovereign digital foundations for the Global South
- The Policy Table
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