Now available in Latest Articles @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social interrogates 'subscription', a taken-for-granted economic bedrock of digital capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Many of the issues raised by the Commission in the document are not about principles of data sharing, but rather generally poor compliance practices". The beacon of free speech everyone... soon we will have the X files

The recently closed TikTok deal has some safeguards built in, but Chinese influence could persist. The fix: disclose licensing terms and let independent researchers verify what is happening on the platform, say Mark MacCarthy and Carl Schonander.

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

New housing and planning resource for Ireland – a publications hub. >1,800 academic, policy and sector publications relating to housing, property and planning in Ireland. Access at www.zotero.org/groups/55867... if there are pubs missing you want us to add, please send them to us and we will do so

🪧 'Work and Employment in the Great Reshuffle: Navigating the Polycrisis' (WES 2026) We are organising the 2026 Work, Employment and Society Annual Conference! Call for abstracts now open. Deadline for submission is 20 March 2026. Full call for submissions here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Its the era of cryptopolitics - where money flows from online exchanges without borders to influence decisions within borders.

Some are jubilant about this, as if all is well with its democracy, yet we should not forget how illiberal discourses of rights have already gained prominence, (in)ordinately shaped by the class power and interests of elites.

Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

India doing a rapid hairpin bend on its road to digital in-security and state surveillance. #digital #surveillance

ECRs apply!

Also an alum of the 2022 Montreal EGRG even. 10/10 would recommend. Early Careers please Apply.

To be fair, Coates wrote this piece because very few others who could do it, did. I see this as basic truth telling with journalist skills that others refused to employ.

🚨 Our research on unions and organising in India's platform society covered in the media, for which both me and my co-author @islandexpress.bsky.social were also interviewed: "Why unions find it hard to forge worker solidarity in the platform economy". behanbox.com/2025/09/05/w...

You wait years for a headline like this on.ft.com/3Tmw16o

Please check out @adiray.bsky.social's very timely piece proposing a post colonial critical political economy approach to studying platforms and digital technologies, contesting the Asian developmental model of leapfrogging. Another wonderful article from our social media+society special issue.

Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models. Happey to see this piece out in Social Media + Society! Began life as 20K draft (another story..), with nudging I shaped part of it into a conceptual intervention. Open access 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Yup the blunders within the show and bluster was all too visible.

Musk vs Trump (X vs TS)

NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out. Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible. Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

Our article "Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work" has been published by 'Work, Employment and Society'. With Nick Martindale and @brendanburchell.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0950...

Very much looking forward to this talk from @wstronge.bsky.social on June 2nd in @uoe-sps.bsky.social

What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age? Thrilled about this new open-access paper with @islandexpress in @compchange.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1177/1024... It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions:

Read the chapter by @cosminpopan.bsky.social and myself about the changing composition of couriers and the consequences for collectivism!

This is gonna be great - join if you can!! 💥

The Platforms and Society journal and AdTech Research Project present an Online Symposium How to Approach and Regulate Google? A New Perspective 12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528)

imagine paying $200 to watch a 2 hour French New Wave film that could have been collapsed into a 10 min scene of young people running around. $300 to watch In the Mood for Love, and in the end, they don't even kiss.

📣 Call for Papers – Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations and International Relations journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

Tech Giants are Mapping Global Migration: Meta's vast data reveals key insights into migration. While researchers will find conclusions familiar, data frm 3B users represents powerful new analysis tool. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #BigData #MigrationStudies #DigitalGeopolitics #TechEthics

Meta right now

On Day 1 of the Meta antitrust trial, the government was stuck arguing about a world — and a market — that no longer really exists www.platformer.news/meta-antitru...

📣 Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards 🏆 Got a killer monograph? A brilliant grad paper? Or been shaking things up through tech + labour organising? Designers, researchers, activists, tech workers + organisers Submit. Deadline: June 1, 2025

Meanwhile I find the collective meltdown of American 'economic moguls' about nation's Chinese dependency extremely hilarious. They manage to fault Summers, Clinton & Bush for walking China into the WTO, thus making it the monster it is. Idk why they don't go all the way back to Eisenhower.... 😆

Call for abstracts ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Trump's tariff is shock & awe. In the long run but it will lead to tactical recaliberation of the world economy. The more countries US can individually renegotiate with the better chances it thinks it has to continue its dominance and ring fence China. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Who knows the endgame from Trump? but if tariffs are real bargaining chips - this is shock and awe. There is going to be recaliberation once the tactical onslaught settles.

In our paper 'Patchwork capitalism and the management of interlinked crises by essential public services in Poland', we explore how public service actors have responded to interlinked crises. The paper has been been just published in International Labour Review: en.ilr-rit.org/article/pubi...

Why are universities pivoting to AI after initial panic about students cheating? @tressiemcphd.bsky.social gives a mini lecture on AI, politics, and inequality building on @dmgreene.bsky.social's work on the "access doctrine" www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...

A massive, self-inflicted wound on American higher education.

🚨Call for applications - WES PhD Showcase Writing Workshop, 2-3 June 2025 at the University of Nottingham, led by 4 @wesjnl.bsky.social editors. Excellent opportunity for 16 delegates. Open to international members, with limited contribution. see - www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Make Bribery Great Again: "American national security depends on America and its companies gaining strategic commercial advantages around the world & Trump is stopping excessive, unpredictable FCPA enforcement that makes American companies less competitive,” according to a White House factsheet.

I have been saying this in my classes a lot. Time to back it up with some research 🧐

We took X to court. And we won! ⚖️ The courts ruled that X must urgently grant us access to their publicly available data via their API. This access is critical for our analysis of online public discourse ahead of the upcoming German elections. Read: bit.ly/4gBWGp4 Here's what's happened 1/3 👇

As an acolyte of Musk, this is hardly a surpise. For every single one that resigns there will be 10 others in the waiting.

FEMA workers responding to wildfires ordered to say 'alien' instead of 'immigrant': "This is the most 1984 email I've ever seen," one worker said. 🔗 www.404media.co/for-immediat...

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

Delighted to be joining the @wesjnl.bsky.social editorial board this month (for 4 yrs). A go-to journal for me-excited to connect with colleagues, contribute to projects & support fab work on digital work, (in)equality, migration, identity, care, methods etc., esp. of/frm majority world. Submit.

The news of US administrative employees being led by Musk’s 19 year old lackeys - Bobba et al. to questioning reminds me of that severance scene…