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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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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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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 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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
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A Web of Crises: Taking Stock of the Struggle
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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.

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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 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...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:11 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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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.
August 28, 2025 at 2:14 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.

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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