Opinion: The Right Are Hypocrites – But Pointing It Out Won’t Get Us Anywhere
by James Greig
Highlighting hypocrisy feels worthy but is often a waste of political energy.
Tag: internet
The Bastani Factor: Control, Power and Resistance in the 21st Century. Interview With Cory Doctorow
What is the relationship between technology, society and politics? Is the former merely a tool for social control, or can it also open up new vistas of possibility and freedom? How can one become the other, and what does resistance look like in a world where culture, and digital culture, are increasingly constitutive of one […]
Opinion: The TikTok Saga Shows How the Internet and Technology Are Political
by Aaron Bastani
The TikTok and Huawei stories distill how China’s rise is not solely economic and political, argues Aaron Bastani. For the first time in 250 years, an Asian power is vying for long-term technological leadership with the West.
Live: Banquets and Bigots: Trump in the U.K.
As Tory hopefuls suck up to the ego-in-chief, we’re joined in the studio by Sarah Jaffe (journalist and co-host of the Belabored Podcast) and Hussein Kesvani (author and co-host of the Trash Future podcast). We’ll be discussing the nature of the special relationship, whether the working class love state banquets, the latest on Trump’s potential […]
Novara FM: Log On! the Rise of the Digital Party
On #NovaraFM James Butler is joined by Paolo Gerbaudo to discuss his new book ‘The Digital Party’: from hyperleaders to superbases, the end of the cadre and the effect of the internet on how people think about politics.
Solidarity at Sea: Could Facebook Help Cruise Workers Fight Back?
by Miranda Hall
Cruise workers experience both some of the worst working conditions and unique barriers to collective organising. Can social media networks help crew members overcome these barriers and provide a starting point for building a movement?
5 Reasons Not to be a Woman in the UK in 2014
by Tabitha Bast
From reproductive rights to Ukip to the internet, women are bearing the brunt of an onslaught which threatens both women's rights and maybe even the sisterhood which won them. Here Tabitha Bast explores what's making 2014 such a bad year to be a woman in the UK.
7 Reasons ‘Radical’ Publishers are Getting OWNED by the Internet
by James Butler
Lawrence and Wishart, publishers of the Marx-Engels Collected Works (MECW), the most complete works available in English, recently issued an instruction to the Marxists.org internet archive to take down their digitised and freely-available copies of its text. Subsequently, the internet struck back.
On The Figure Of The Troll
by byStrategy
In this short piece 'ByStrategy' offers a brief genealogy of the term troll, examining why its meaning has been subject to certain changes with the rise of commercially successful 'social media' platforms.