[LAUNCHING] “The compost engineers and sus saberes lentos: a manifest for regenerative technologies” by @joana_varon and @luciaegana. Can we switch tech imaginaries towards regenerative systems instead of extractivist tech for war, anxiety and domination? codingrights.org/docs/compos…
ALT cover of the manifesto with the title of the text and drawings of elements of nature: a bird, a beetle and flowers
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
“And then you had women having miscarriages. Women started losing weight, becoming unkempt... For the most part, the violence we saw was against women – intimate partner violence, women being stabbed.” – Kauna Malgwi about the hidden toll of women. dingdingding.org/issue-7/hid…
“While algorithms learn and profit targets are met, It’s the human touch that wears the mask, moderating for the unseen world.” Excerpt from a poem by Mojez, a labour rights activist and former moderator for TikTok. dingdingding.org/issue-7/gua…
“My mental health has been badly and irreversibly affected; I need serious psychiatric help, as well as compensation for my well-being now and in the near future.” A former content moderator from Nigeria writes about what he called the exploitation zone. dingdingding.org/issue-7/the…
“Slowly, we bleed the web of its horrors. Yet every word – every image – is a scar, permanently engraved. We ask when society will see us.” A story of the fight for generations: dingdingding.org/issue-7/a-f…
Whistleblowing was not a choice but an act of survival – Daniel Motaung tells the story of how became one of the first ones to expose the industry’s practices and what the future of content moderation must look like: dingdingding.org/issue-7/int…
“I watched these videos constantly until I could no longer bear it. [...] My attempts to describe how the videos affected my relationship with my children fell on dead ears.” – A mother writes about how this job negatively affected her children. dingdingding.org/issue-7/a-m…
“In Kenya, where an educated workforce faces chronic unemployment [...] forcing many talented young graduates into the digital economy.”
@NerimaW
, on the silence of politicians about the risks and perils involved in digital work. dingdingding.org/issue-7/a-c…
„Bis ich es nicht mehr ertragen konnte“ - zwei Content Moderatorinnen sprechen darüber, wie der Job sie und ihre Familien aus der Bahn warf. Ein Blick hinter die glitzernden Kulissen von KI und Social Media. @superrrnetwork@m_hoppenstedtspiegel.de/netzwelt/web/digi…
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
“And then you had women having miscarriages. Women started losing weight, becoming unkempt... For the most part, the violence we saw was against women – intimate partner violence, women being stabbed.” – Kauna Malgwi about the hidden toll of women. dingdingding.org/issue-7/hid…
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
“While algorithms learn and profit targets are met, It’s the human touch that wears the mask, moderating for the unseen world.” Excerpt from a poem by Mojez, a labour rights activist and former moderator for TikTok. dingdingding.org/issue-7/gua…
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
“My mental health has been badly and irreversibly affected; I need serious psychiatric help, as well as compensation for my well-being now and in the near future.” A former content moderator from Nigeria writes about what he called the exploitation zone.
dingdingding.org/issue-7/the…
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
“Slowly, we bleed the web of its horrors. Yet every word – every image – is a scar, permanently engraved. We ask when society will see us.” A story of the fight for generations: dingdingding.org/issue-7/a-f…
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
Whistleblowing was not a choice but an act of survival – Daniel Motaung tells the story of how became one of the first ones to expose the industry’s practices and what the future of content moderation must look like: dingdingding.org/issue-7/int…
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
“I watched these videos constantly until I could no longer bear it. [...] My attempts to describe how the videos affected my relationship with my children fell on dead ears.” – A mother writes about how this job negatively affected her children. dingdingding.org/issue-7/a-m…
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵
“In Kenya, where an educated workforce faces chronic unemployment [...] forcing many talented young graduates into the digital economy.” @NerimaW, on the silence of politicians about the risks and perils involved in digital work.
dingdingding.org/issue-7/a-c…
New magazine is out now!
Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers
✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice
✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future
Read now dingdingding.org/ 🧵