Own the Media: 4 Reasons the UK Needs a new Media Funding Revolution In order to fulfill its potential, branch into original reporting, and combat the mainstream media hegemony, independent media needs one thing above all: funding.
The World After 2016: 6 New Rules in Politics 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’ 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'.
Vloggers of the World, Unite? A Marxist Analysis of YouTube 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 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.