Interesting article about solidarity between software workers and gig workers in Bengaluru - shows in detail how shared migration experiences can serve as a ground for inter-class organizing. By @dipsitadhar.bsky.social, @ashiquealit.bsky.social, S. Bhattacharya: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Glad to have presented our ongoing work on digital solidarity economy (with Priyank Chandra), gigfluencers (with Dipsita) & platforms and climate change (Hiu Fung & Kaushar Mahetaji) at INDL 8 in Bologna. It was a wonderful experience engaging with digital labour scholars and trade unionists.

India and Bangladesh do not officially recognise refugees under international law, as neither country has signed the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention. @soulrestless.bsky.social Kanika Gupta write about undocumented Bangladeshi migrants

A very valuable meeting point in academic journey. Team 'platform without borders' Thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, @andretwp.bsky.social & Denise Kasparian for putting this together.

Brilliant people at the Platforms without borders workshop in London #Space4 #platforms thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social for the wonderful hosting and @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social Denise Kasparian @marcsteinberg.bsky.social

Union’s Care: They have designs for alternative socio-technical infrastructure & can regenerate the market, community & the city when in crisis. Happy to share our #CHI2025 paper! "Generative Politics and Labour Markets: Unions and Collective Life in a City in Crisis" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Hello Toronto, Join us for the talk by prof. Aakash Gautam on community-based design projects. March 21, 11.00am-1.00pm, Faculty of Information, UofT

We mourn the sudden loss of Michael Burawoy--eminent scholar, mentor, and friend to the labor movement. oaklandside.org/2025/02/05/s...

24-01-1925 SENEGAL: Beginning of a 4-day strike in the Dakar-Niger Railways for a wage increase benefiting both African and European workers.

Like bots, deepfakes are part of the online landscape. Here's our primer on deepfakes. What they are, how they are made, and why they threaten democratic societies. deepfakestracker.org/deepfakes-fa... #medialiteracy

"For Project Maven, Google hired hundreds of gig-economy workers to solve numerous CAPTCHAs at an incredibly low cost (roughly $1/hour). The results of these completed CAPTCHAs were then used to develop a classification program for the use of US Military drone applications" Workers had no idea

Gig workers in Delhi suffer immensely from heightened air pollution, crossing even 1000 AQI. We conducted a health camp in Delhi for the gig & outdoor workers. Indian Govt should act to protect workers from climate crisis as well as make corporate platforms accountable.

Here is the official account of STREET Lab, UofT. @streetlab-uoft.bsky.social

The city has become unlivable.

Here is our CSCW paper that examines how the entry of on-demand ridesourcing digital labour platforms (OR-DLPs) like Uber have reshaped labor geography & worker resistance dynamics. We explore how a traditional trade union in Kolkata, India, navigated this shift. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Hello! I've been working on a starter pack for labour and technology scholars on Bluesky. 🤖💪📘 I started with a bunch of folks from @labortech.bsky.social and have been expanding outwards. Reply or send a message to me directly if you'd like to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/UMaa7T3

Global air temperatures reached a new high on July 3, surpassing the record set in 2016 and tied in 2022, according to multiple recent analyses. Since then, global air temperatures have continued climbing. https://nyti.ms/3rEGuzs