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An alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective.
Joined June 2019
Cautioning against neutral framings of #syntheticdata, the authors remind us that these tools actively shape the worlds we imagine and the inequities we reproduce. Read the full story: https://t.co/jI3nmYqiNt
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Interrogating the hype around #syntheticdata, the authors reveal how Global South realities—like Brazil’s #PIX—challenge tech-solutionist narratives and spotlight deeper governance gaps. Read the full story: https://t.co/jI3nmYqiNt
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Our latest piece interrogates the myths of the digital economy and the unequal structures that sustain its global dominance. Read here: https://t.co/IwyymyxUrB
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Cautioning against an uncritical appropriation of the platform model, Vinit Ravishankar makes a case for pushing beyond capitalist fetters whilst envisioning alternative digital futures. Read the full piece here: https://t.co/IwyymyxmC3
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To address these deepening issues, he stresses the importance of locating the digital shift in a deep just transition approach. Read more:
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A great leap is happening in digital capitalism with artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, gene editing, quantum computing, and 3D printing all vaunted...
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In our latest piece, Dr. Vishwas Satgar unravels the shallow digital futurism at work that conflates digital monopoly interests, human progress, development, and the future.
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Drawing on a range of critical perspectives from his recent edited volume ‘Digital Capitalism and its Limits: Technotopia, Power and Risk’, Vishwas Satgar carefully untangles the real political stakes of our technocapitalist moment in our latest piece.
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Read the full issue of DataSyn here: https://t.co/iCDkySOSvB Don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter for updates on all things Big Tech:
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Our final piece provides a sharp critique of the reformist embrace of the platform model, urging a move beyond capitalist constraints to imagine genuinely emancipatory digital futures. https://t.co/IwyymyxUrB
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Trump’s constant back-and-forth on tariffs has represented a rather momentous break in the aspirationally frictionless world of global trade. These all...
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Drawing from the anthology Digital Capitalism and its Limits, our second piece disentangles the speculative frenzy around digitalization and calls for a structural rethinking of techno-capitalism. https://t.co/Tx2UP97tjJ
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A great leap is happening in digital capitalism with artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, gene editing, quantum computing, and 3D printing all vaunted...
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Our first piece takes a look at Brazil’s PIX payments system to challenge the myth of “risk-free” synthetic data and reveal the deeper politics of data governance and expertise. https://t.co/jI3nmYqiNt
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“…asked whether he was worried about regulatory probes into ChatGPT’s potential privacy violations. Altman brushed it off, saying he was “pretty ...
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As Big Tech scrambles to sustain the illusion of endless innovation, what emerges is a portrait of an industry running on speculation, ecological strain, and deepening geopolitical fault lines.
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We are excited to share the latest issue of DataSyn, delving into The Mythology of Platform Capitalism.
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The fight against AI-generated film isn’t a Luddite rejection of technology, but a defense of the human spirit. Our latest piece positions this fight as a move towards a right to work, to collaborate, to fail, and to create something that bears an undeniable fingerprint.
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Our latest piece looks at why using AI in film takes away from cinema as a community-building exercise and prioritizes machines over artists. Read the full piece here:
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The specter of artificial intelligence haunts contemporary culture, infiltrating every corner of creative expression with promises of efficiency and opti...
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Cinema operates as a form of embodied knowledge production, a practice that depends on the presence of human consciousness engaged in storytelling.
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⚙️ In our latest piece, Madhulika Tatigotla and Eshani Vaidya expose the hidden costs of convenience, uncovering the exploitative labor practices that continue to define Amazon’s warehouse work. #LabourRights #PlatformEconomy #DigitalCapitalism #WorkersRights #BigTech
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