BotPopuli
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We are an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective.
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Movies That Don’t Move Anyone: In Defense of Embodied Filmmaking
The specter of artificial intelligence haunts contemporary culture, infiltrating every corner of creative expression with promises of efficiency and opti...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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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.
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and prioritizes machines over artists.
Read the full piece here: botpopuli.net/movies-that-...
Movies That Don’t Move Anyone: In Defense of Embodied Filmmaking
The specter of artificial intelligence haunts contemporary culture, infiltrating every corner of creative expression with promises of efficiency and opti...
botpopuli.net
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Our latest piece looks at why using AI in film takes away from cinema as a community-building exercise
and prioritizes machines over artists.
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and prioritizes machines over artists.
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The Cost of Convenience
Since entering India’s e-commerce market in 2013, Amazon has experienced rapid and sustained growth. The company’s expansion narrative is both straig...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Explore how ongoing struggles are forging alternative visions of the digital economy.
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Platform Power and the Future of Work: Labor Frontiers in the Cross-Border Digital Economy
Against the backdrop of the ILO’s 2025 breakthrough on international standards for platform labor, Part A of this article examined the structural reali...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Explore how ongoing struggles are forging alternative visions of the digital economy.
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A Web of Crises: Taking Stock of the Struggle
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September 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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💻 Our second piece reflects on a year of digital multilateralism and takes stock of where we are in the struggle for digital justice.
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Claiming the Zone of Productive Discomfort
Last month, we carried critical dispatches from the WSIS+20 High-Level Event, a pivotal moment in the lead-up to the WSIS+20 Overall Review by the UN Gen...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
💻 Our second piece reflects on a year of digital multilateralism and takes stock of where we are in the struggle for digital justice.
Read more here: botpopuli.net/claiming-the...
Read more here: botpopuli.net/claiming-the...
🌍 Our first piece carries on from last month, offering a thoughtful policy framework for regulating platform work internationally.
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Platform Power and the Future of Work: Labor Frontiers in the Cross-Border Digital Economy
Against the backdrop of the ILO’s 2025 breakthrough on international standards for platform labor, Part A of this article examined the structural reali...
botpopuli.net
September 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🌍 Our first piece carries on from last month, offering a thoughtful policy framework for regulating platform work internationally.
Read here: botpopuli.net/platform-pow...
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In these dispatches, some of them reflect on key takeaways from the #WSIS+20 HLE, and what it portends for the future.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In these dispatches, some of them reflect on key takeaways from the #WSIS+20 HLE, and what it portends for the future.
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This includes a number of the Global Digital Justice Forum’s members, who continued their determined advocacy agenda, participating in and organizing several sessions in recent weeks.
August 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This includes a number of the Global Digital Justice Forum’s members, who continued their determined advocacy agenda, participating in and organizing several sessions in recent weeks.
In this context, our latest article unpacks the global architecture of the platform economy, tracing its visible interfaces and invisible cross-border infrastructures, and suggesting key frontiers for workers’ struggle to future-proof the platform economy.
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Platform Power and the Future of Work: Labor Frontiers in the Cross-Border Digital Economy
After years of sustained organizing and pressure by workers, unions, and allied movements across continents, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) ...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In this context, our latest article unpacks the global architecture of the platform economy, tracing its visible interfaces and invisible cross-border infrastructures, and suggesting key frontiers for workers’ struggle to future-proof the platform economy.
Read more:
botpopuli.net/platform-pow...
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botpopuli.net/platform-pow...
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On TAAK
India's digitalization journey has presented us with two different, but related, notions concerning personal data. On one hand is the recognition of da...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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WSIS and the Movement to Democratize Communication
When the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was convened by the UN in 2003 (in Geneva) and 2005 (in Tunis), it was to be the first global mul...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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