And our team is growing Welcome dear readers! After a much deserved summer break, we are back, and our team is growing. We are delighted to welcome Jackie Jun Ji, our new assistant and social media strategist. Jackie is a postgraduate in Digital Marketing Communications, a for...

Access Now, an NGO focusing on digital rights, including , advocacy, legal help and support for activist groups, issued a statement about protecting people of Ukraine - and those fleeing the area - safely connected. They have already issued a call for action to protect Ukrai...

This has been a very hard week, with the violent events unfolding in Ukraine - and digitally. On a personal level, watching a country I was born in bombing the country part of my family is originally from is both surreal and devastating. My heart, solidarity, and thoughts are ...

Two more interesting and timely books at the Polity Press exhibit deserve quick mentioning. Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives focuses on how people make sense of the plentiful of "their" digital data; Pandemic Surveillance is a timely exploration of how the global pan...

Polity Press' was the last stall I visited during AoiR - the conference is now over, and I am slowing down to two last posts about book exhibits. This one is dedicated to two books which touch on different, but, I believe, closely related topics: death and mourning, and rememb...

The topic of AI (artificial intelligence) as a political, social, cultural and environmental concern - rather than a matter of programming and design - is on the rise. As the use of AI grows, so do the concerns regarding its ethical regulations, and social impacts. The researc...

I really like this series of short books, asking critical questions about Digital Futures, one question per book: Is AI good for the planet? How green is your smartphone? Should Robots replace teachers? Are filer bubbles real? Will the Internet fragment? Is technology good...

Polite Press has a very interesting series of short books, dedicated to a single platform each: Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. Each book offers a short an engaging introduction into various issues associated with economic, social and technical aspects of th...

The AoiR conference is almost finished. Here is one last published with an eye-watering sight of great books to look into. More reports on Policy Book stand on Digital Media Studies to follow shortly.

Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics Moving from digital capitalism and algorithmic control to radical resistance, this book looks at alternative social media platforms and networks and ways in which they facilitate radical organising, protest, ...