May – 2016 – The Digital Inequality Group

Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web.

Posted on 12 May 2016 by

In order to understand how the city’s contested political contexts are embedded into its digital layers, we traced how the city is represented on online platforms that house facts about much of the world. We did this by analyzing representations… Continue Reading →

Organising in the “digital wild west”: Can strategic bottlenecks help prevent a race to the bottom for online workers?

Posted on 11 May 2016 by

For decades, large firms have been outsourcing and offshoring jobs. Work flowed from developed economies to developing ones, where wages were lower and regulations were of a lighter touch. Europeans and North Americans lost jobs, and Asians, South Americans, and… Continue Reading →