Do digital technologies help or harm the planet? What are the relations between digitisation, environmental degradation and social injustice? Can we change the way we use digital technologies, to better protect human and non-human life? Join us to explore these questions and t...

By Safah Mahmood Data has become a big part of our daily lives. Every tap and interaction with technology, from liking a Facebook post to making a google search adds to the limitless stored information generated about us. The question I ask is that are data rights human rights...

By Ellie Powell The world is falling to pieces; war, pandemics, poverty, racism; everywhere you look there is another pressing issue which requires time and attention to solve and combat. The rise of social media has meant we are no longer only susceptible to news which direct...

It’s 2021: women have it easy now, right? We got the vote, we have reproductive rights and we can’t lose our jobs if we have a child.  Sadly, that’s not all there is to it.  Since the rise of mainstream social media began in the mid 2000s, women have begun to face a mass of a...

As a headstrong young woman, I know the importance equality of gender holds in our society. Without it, I don’t think I’d be writing this piece, be able to dedicate myself to my Politics studies at our wonderful university or even have the right to sit here and say any of this...

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, ...

The first cluster of books is about digital politics of citizenship and participation. What makes one's voice heard? What are the relations between design and participation? What is the role of platforms in persuading and misinforming, in bringing people and communities togeth...

The book is first and foremost a powerful way of writing internet history, against both the world of white supremacy and the whiteness of internet studies.

"Artificial intelligence is both embodied and material, made from natural resources, fuel, human labour, infrastructures, logistics, histories, and classifications."

Access Now, an international NGO that supports digital rights globally, has just published a very timely report about "Big ID" programmes and the threat they pose to human rights.