Who shapes our digital lives?

It proposes seven practical principles that bring power analysis, intersectionality, situated knowledge, and co-design into data work itself.

Safiya Umoja Noble begins with the stigmatization of Black girls in commercial search to expose how advertising markets, platform monopoly, and knowledge classification produce algorithmic oppression.

Ruha Benjamin’s New Jim Code framework shows how racial hierarchy can be engineered, hidden by defaults, intensified through surveillance, or repackaged as a benevolent technical fix.

Investigating welfare, homeless housing, and child protection, Virginia Eubanks shows how automation disguises austerity as neutral efficiency and subjects poor people to continuous surveillance.

Through transnational interviews, Sarah T. Roberts reveals commercial content moderation: the automation and safety visible on platforms rely on secret, quantified, and outsourced human judgment.

Mar Hicks traces how British institutions classified women’s computing expertise as low-status labor, then built a prestigious field that excluded the workers on whom it depended.

Starting from trans airport screening and disability justice, Sasha Costanza-Chock argues for design led by affected communities, placing benefit, ownership, and accountability above expert good intentions.

Kate Crawford maps AI through minerals, energy, hidden labor, training data, classification, and state surveillance, revealing the extraction and concentrated power beneath machine intelligence.

Legacy Russell reads the glitch as a refusal of gendered and racialized systems of bodily classification, while asking what digital art can open - and what platforms still capture.

A profound and philosophical guide to reclaiming our attention in an era where our focus is commodified and efficiency is seen as the ultimate value. Odell explores how ‘doing nothing’ can be a radical act of resistance, leading to deeper connections with our local environments, communities, and ourselves.

Kantayya follows Buolamwini’s research to connect facial classification, women’s expertise and public control of technology.

Five Manila moderators reveal the human judgments and outsourced risks behind platforms’ apparently automated public spaces.

The true story of three African-American female mathematicians who played crucial roles in NASA's space race during the 1960s. They not only had to face racial discrimination but also overcome gender bias, ultimately making indelible contributions to America's aerospace program through their exceptional talents.

Joy Buolamwini traces algorithmic bias from facial-analysis failures to the institutions that decide what systems see, whom they serve, and who can challenge their use.

Maldivian technology manager Aishath Adnan reflects on founding Women in Tech Maldives and connects women's visibility in tech to island connectivity, education and care policy.

Melina Masnatta traces how gender shapes who is encouraged into technology, from childhood and education to professional workplaces, and asks what institutions can change.

An Australian feminist current-affairs program connecting gender, work and public policy through community radio, with a featured episode on platforms and AI regulation.