A recent survey released by the conference organizers found that 49 percent of game workers are actively pro-union, with only 16 percent currently not sympathetic
Power Shift Shafts FCC; The Ax Falls; Big Tech Free No More; Rating the News; Zuck's Cult; Protecting Journalists
Texting Trouble; Pai's Problems; EFF's Big Wins; Pentagon Woos the Valley; Bye Bye Standard
A recent string of campaigns show that while unions at “legacy” newspapers are eroding, organizing still has a place in the digital space.
Author and professor of political science at the University of Chicago and founder of the Black Youth Project, Cathy Cohen explains the growing role of hashtags in political discussion and what digital media can and can't do for activists.
Anatomy of a cultural product with the potential to ameliorate social inequities but threatened by digital corporate conglomeration and hijacking by the security state. Book covers the implications for cultural democracy in various sectors-music, film, news, advertising-how battles over copyright, piracy and privacy laws have evolved, counterpoints to invasive data-mining and a "People's Platform" supporting the politics of a fightback.
Seattle pauses surveillance plans; Journalists on the move; Google wins book-scanning decision; Supercomputer Watson for all; Writers persecuted for digital media use; Google bigger than print industries.
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