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Tag: digital media
Opinion: Why the Labour Party and Unions Need to Get Serious About News
Aaron Bastani
Unless the labour movement is serious about creating a meaningful - and modern - counter-weight to the right-wing media, both its national profile and political power will continue to wane, writes Aaron Bastani.
Long Read: The World After 2016: 6 New Rules in Politics
Aaron Bastani
Brexit. Trump. The ubiquity of Facebook. The fracturing of historically-dominant political parties. The political certainties of yesterday are out of the window, and there's more up for grabs than we know.
#Slaveroo: Deliveroo Drivers Organising in the ‘Gig Economy’
Jamie Woodcock
Yesterday hundreds of Deliveroo turned up at the company's London HQ to convey their collective grievances regarding a new pay structure, defying the fragmentation of platform-based labour in the so-called 'gig economy'.
Long Read: Vloggers of the World, Unite? A Marxist Analysis of YouTube
Olly Lennard
Sunday Long Read: Can Marx's theory of alienation help us understand the work of the many thousands of part-time and full-time independent creators who make YouTube the world's third most-used site?
7 Reasons We Shouldn’t Let Ello Become the Next Facebook
Johannes Wilm
Ditched Facebook and moved to the greener pastures of Ello in search of privacy, exclusivity and loads of little round pictures? Don't be so eager! While your grandparents might not be on Ello taking selfies (yet), the company is almost bound to renege on its 'civil liberties' ego-trip and has got some serious venture capitalists queuing around the block.