GMB has agreed £12ph pay floor + cost for time on order at Deliveroo. Solid progress & best way forward now is for workers to urgently unionise & organise to further strengthen bargaining power to command even more. Nothing comes on a silver plate. Workers must lever their power.

Retirees are turning to the gig economy for extra money, but companies are telling them they’re too old to work
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'Normal island' as they say:

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Hye-Kyung Lee asks how we redefine cultural work in the time of #AI , what new meanings we can attach to cultural labour, what constitutes the human-ness in human creativity and why it crucially matters. King's College London
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🚀 Join us for the book 📗 launch next week 31 May in Brussels, register here etui.org/events/shaping… #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

'Today, Ireland, Norway and Spain are announcing that we recognise the state of Palestine.'

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris says this is a 'historic day for Palestine'.

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📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

Blown away by the news that my 'Landlords of the Internet' article has won an Honorable Mention for the David Edge Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science, awarded to the year's outstanding article in STS. 4sonline.org/2024_taylor_m_…

New publication⚡️From a collaboration with my data science colleagues at Universität Wien Data Science @ Uni Vienna (fka @dsUniVie) on the role of the ‚human-in-the-loop‘, a figure that moves between developers, stakeholders, responsibilities, ethical a/ legal voids and is as figuratively vague as it is powerful 1/2

Very pleased to share my latest article:

Outside the Black Box: From Algorithmic Transparency to Platform Observability in the Digital Services Act

ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds…

🤩Excited to speak at one of my favourite conferences, re:publica in Berlin💃
My talk ''You've gotta fight for your rights!' But how?: How can citizens resist, negotiate & mobilize in the datafied society?'- Will be on Tuesday 28 May stage 10 @ 11:45 #rp24 re-publica.com/de/session/you…

Ah, more 'midnight TV marketing scam' vibes-- from both the video itself and the 'cutting edge' innovation.

Pleased to have this article out in Journal of Cultural Economy that uses Sianne Ngai's theory of the gimmick to think about the everyday affects of Buy-Now-Pay-Later and financialized subjectivities.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Uber delivery rider's brutal $70 reality exposes problem with 'dangerous' job.
au.finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-deli…

Fantastic opportunity to work with us! We are looking for a Lecturer in Global Law and Digital Technology Edinburgh Law School. It's a brilliant place to work. Join our IT/IP/Media Law subject area doing exciting cutting edge research + teaching. Closes 29 May
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHK930/lec…

If OpenAI wanted to “bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives” they could start by fairly compensating people whose work was stolen to feed the machine.

Gold dust print issue with our most downloaded paper of the last year by our now, brand new, Review and Commentary editor elif buse doyuran (aaaand featuring cover art by 🤩 Simon Phipps)

📣 Calling the Conjurer’s Symposium

📆 May 23-26, Toronto

Two years ago, SA Smythe and I published a convo calling black studies into critical tech Logic(s). we’re now hosting a symposium to work through the grounds of that invitation

RSVP ⬇️
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And June 14th here:

Looking forward to speaking here on the 5th:

Join us to share, hear and learn about doing participatory research and the university environments needed to do it well! Half-day workshop on 27 June, open to researchers and professional services. Travel funding available. Find out more and register: tinyurl.com/45t5sksw