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Intersectional feminist perspectives on digital societies

  1. With Anna Antonakis

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    With Anna Antonakis

    In this episode, we speak with Anna about the possibilities and limitations of bridging engaged research, activism, and academia, and about how social media platforms such as Facebook both support and constrain feminist activism. Examples include the Arab Spring as well as more recent developments. A central focus is the role of content moderation in feminist activism. In addition, Anna reflects on her experiences with feminism in Tunisia and Switzerland, as well as on the paradox of strong direct political participation alongside the very late introduction of women’s suffrage. Further aspects of the discussion include possibilities for empowerment in the context of Big Tech and the social responsibility of academic research. Dr. Anna Antonakis is currently a senior researcher in the field of Social Design at the Institute of Design Research, Bern University of Applied Sciences. Drawing on science and technology studies and intersectional approaches, she investigates questions around digital technologies and representations, global inequalities and security/ies. Her research currently focusses on how power operates in and through the design of processes, narratives and (digital) artifacts.Her research interests are anchored in the historical moment of the revolutionary uprisings in Tunisia in 2010/2011, which she witnessed and analysed online and offline. She holds a PhD in political science from the Freie Universität Berlin.

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  2. With Aida Eyvazzadeh and Sakine M. Bozorg

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    With Aida Eyvazzadeh and Sakine M. Bozorg

    Aida Eyvazzadeh and Sakine M. Bozorg are former content moderators in Berlin who worked for a global social media platform. The are both from Iran and in this episode, they talk about why and how migrant workers in Germany constitute as a crucial labor supply to the global platform economy. They explain what content moderation is, how it is labor intensive work and requires several skills. Instead of being valued, content moderators face high control on their work and even repression, a kind of corporate authoritarianism that reminds them of the authoritarian regime in Iran. They go on to recount their experiences of challenging these power asymmetries through the German institutional resources and trade unions, and the difficulties they have faced in doing so. Talking about these experiences, they suggest ways for unions to reflect and make certain changes. Beyond these institutions, they also find hope in networking with different communities in Berlin and internationally for sharing resources and finding possibilities to organize. Aida currently works in the civil society sector and Sakin is an independent researcher and essayist. She is also part of the Data Workers Inquiry project (https://data-workers.org/) that is supported by the Distributed AI Research Institute and the Weizenbaum Institute and is launching on the 8th of July this year. To know more about content moderation work in Germany, you can access this article here: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/wge/2/2/article-p176.xml To access Sakin's talk at the Transnational Forum of Alternatives to Uberisation at the European Parliament, please click here: https://left.eu/events/transnational-forum-of-alternatives-to-uberisation-4/

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Intersectional feminist perspectives on digital societies