The DataSyn team asked 21 experts to share their media and book recommendations on all things Big Tech to put together this holiday list of reflection, leisure, and introspection.

Exploring a feminist conceptualization of privacy that builds on the contextual and relational nature of privacy.

Unpacking dominant developed countries’ tactic of using spam as a ruse to move trade deals away from the ITU and into the WTO, where they have greater bargaining power.

Exploring the experiences of women platform workers in Kenya.

Exploring how we can walk the tightrope of demanding recognition online, and for safe digital spaces to mobilize, socialize, and work without falling for hegemonic neoliberal feminist identity politics.

Who owns the vast physical infrastructure of the internet, and how is the user’s right to access content and the producer’s right to participate in the internet economy contingent on their interests?

In George Orwell’s 1984, the state used its absolute power to disrupt human connections, even to eliminate love. Are we now living in a real-world version of 1984 where Big Brother is Big Tech? What does this mean for the world of work and is resistance still possible?

Can India’s smart cities be built using equitable and participatory technological infrastructure and governance processes for public data?

Can users regain control over their car data as part of a free and safe data value chain?

Exploring workers’ struggle to reclaim the means of self-determination, resisting the steady march of dominant platforms.