Aditya Ray
@adiray.bsky.social
Academic (Dr.), Geographer, Tinkerer, Blabberer, Writer. Testing this space. Interests: Tech | Work | Political Economies | Cities | Global Dev | Dissident Cultures | Friends and Community | Neurodivergence | Will block faceless bioless follows
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Aditya Ray
@adiray.bsky.social
· May 22
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:
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:
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.
September 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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...
"Why unions find it hard to forge worker solidarity in the platform economy".
behanbox.com/2025/09/05/w...
Why Unions Find It Hard To Forge Worker Solidarity In Platform Companies
In the platform economy, time is scarce, worker interactions are discouraged, and protests met with punishment. The idea of both union and unity are threatened
behanbox.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨 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...
"Why unions find it hard to forge worker solidarity in the platform economy".
behanbox.com/2025/09/05/w...
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You wait years for a headline like this on.ft.com/3Tmw16o
Poundland sold for less than £1
[FREE TO READ] US private equity group Gordon Brothers acquires struggling discount retailer ahead of restructuring plan
on.ft.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
You wait years for a headline like this on.ft.com/3Tmw16o
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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...
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...
June 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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...
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...
June 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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...
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.
This article is rather strong evidence of what many of us have feared: They broke the agencies and need to rehire. (Some don't even have people to process payroll.) But a significant number of former employees have found new jobs or refuse to return. For those who return, morale is terrible.
Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.
June 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yup the blunders within the show and bluster was all too visible.
Musk vs Trump (X vs TS)
June 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Musk vs Trump (X vs TS)
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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
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
June 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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
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
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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...
doi.org/10.1177/0950...
June 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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...
doi.org/10.1177/0950...
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Very much looking forward to this talk from @wstronge.bsky.social on June 2nd in @uoe-sps.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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:
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:
May 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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:
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:
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Read the chapter by @cosminpopan.bsky.social and myself about the changing composition of couriers and the consequences for collectivism!
May 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Read the chapter by @cosminpopan.bsky.social and myself about the changing composition of couriers and the consequences for collectivism!
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This is gonna be great - join if you can!! 💥
EVENT ALERT: Platforms and Society and
@adtechproject.bsky.social present "How to Approach and Regulate Google?" - an online symposium
12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw. 690528)
@adtechproject.bsky.social present "How to Approach and Regulate Google?" - an online symposium
12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw. 690528)
May 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is gonna be great - join if you can!! 💥
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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)
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)
May 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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)
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)
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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.
$300 to watch In the Mood for Love, and in the end, they don't even kiss.
May 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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.
$300 to watch In the Mood for Love, and in the end, they don't even kiss.
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📣 Call for Papers – Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations
Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations and International Relations
journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...
Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations and International Relations
journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...
April 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📣 Call for Papers – Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations
Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations and International Relations
journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...
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'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
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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'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
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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...
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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
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
Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards, deadline June 1 2025. Welcoming submissions for monographs, graduate student papers and *social justice awards* which invite tech workers, labor organisers, activists, designers and others! @labortech.bsky.social
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
Labor Tech
Labor Tech Research Network - A collection of leading experts on technology and work with a commitment to feminism, anti-racism, and social justice
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April 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
📣 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
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.... 😆
The dream is dead
April 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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.... 😆
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Call for abstracts ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Sharing an opportunity to publish in our journal. Check out this call for papers led by @silvertje.bsky.social Rianne Riemens Donya Alinejad @juikei.bsky.social "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline: 23.05 journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Vietnam Offers to Remove All Tariffs on US After Trump Action
Vietnam offered to remove all tariffs on US imports after President Donald Trump announced a 46% levy on the Southeast Asian nation, according to an April 5 letter from Vietnam’s communist party.
www.bloomberg.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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...
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.
Why are they going so hard at Southeast Asia? Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Bangladesh all being hit with rates over 30%! Why???
April 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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.