Cypherpunk refers to social movements, individuals, institutions, technologies, and political actions that, with a decentralised approach, defend, support, offer, code, or rely on strong encryption systems in order to re-shape social, political, or economic asymmetries.
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Digitally-disadvantaged languages face multiple inequities in the digital sphere, with their speaker communities frequently experiencing the duality of digital neglect and surveillance. These languages suffer from gaps in digital support, and when support does exist, it often makes speaker communities vulnerable to surveillance and gaps in content
Gender inequalities in digital labour platforms echo those in the traditional labour market.
This study applies a “doing gender” perspective and intersectionality theory to examine the gendered access to the European sharing economy.
This introduction to the special issue provides the state of the art of research on the interplay between the platform economy and gender.
We provide a theoretical framework to systematise content gaps in Wikipedia and then use it to examine how this platform shapes women's visibility.
This essay knits a dialogue between feminist political theory and a feminist economy, aiming at addressing the multiple challenges of the contemporary platform economy.
This paper is part of The gender of the platform economy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Mayo Fuster Morell, Ricard Espelt and David Megias. Introduction Wanghong is short for the Chinese term “wangluo hongren”: people who have gone viral online. Covering a wide spectrum of participants including video uploader, vlogger
Platform micro-work fails to fill the legacy gaps that separate women from rewarding tech careers, and maintains them in low-level roles.
Artificial emotional intelligence refers to technologies that perform, recognise, or record affective states. More than merely a technological function, however, it is also a social process whereby cultural assumptions about what emotions are and how they are made are translated into composites of code, software, and mechanical platforms. This
