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Fascist fashion items can help promote and provide funds for extremist groups. In some instances, it appears, their sale relies upon key services provided by prominent businesses that have policies […]
By Foeke PostmaAutomation, Labour Migration, Reproduction Platform Mobilities explores the transformation of labour and reproduction, infrastructures and landscapes, mobility and migration under conditions of automation. The conference marks the final step of […]
When the job of a young east coast-based analyst – we’ll call him James – went remote with the pandemic, he didn’t envisage any problems. The company, a large US […]
By Zoë CornIn this essay, Bulut examines the experinces of gig-workers in Turkey during the pandemic.
Ergin Bulut received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he works as an Associate Professor at Koç University’s Media and Visual […]
PostDoctoral Scholar – Community Organizing and Social ComputingApplication Window Open date: April 12th, 2022 Next review date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to […]
By UC IrvineThe Datafied State is an emerging research agenda that seeks to explore the relationship between datafication and public administration. It is concerned with the proliferation of data sources, infrastructures, and computational […]
By Jenna Burrell and Ranjit SinghDorothy R. Santos is a Filipino American storyteller, poet, artist, and scholar, and she is an assistant teaching professor in the art department and Principal Founding Faculty for Creative Technologies […]
Amazon will block and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept. An automatic word monitor would also block a […]
By Ken KlippensteinAmelia Gibson and Rua Williams explore academic scholarship and public discussion around disability access and accessibility and problematize the idea that disabled people truly have access to technology in contexts where they do not control technology.
Hector Beltran presents the phenomena of hacking and the hackathon. It also addresses issues of access and equity in how racialized, gendered, classed, or other marginalized social groups can undertake hacking or how they are treated within hacking spaces.