Chris Fallon: Where Truth Lies. Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11
MEDIA: The struggle for truth – and thus for documentarism – has become brutal. A new book analyzes how truth claims and digital culture shape our political realities.
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle: Hustle and Gig. Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy
Platformer: The so-called sharing economy promises freedom to organize one's own working life. Sociologist Alexandrea J. Ravenelle examines the survival conditions of platform workers.
Nikhil Pal Singh: Race and America's Long War Author
BIOPOLITICS: Does the public notion of order necessitate extreme violence against certain sections of the population (natives, blacks, Muslims, etc.)? May 5000 poor and displaced migrants be met by a wall and the mobilization of 15000 soldiers?
Sylvie Lawrence: King and the Other America. The Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality
ECONOMIC INequality: In an era where anti-racism is being demarcated as identity politics and white poor are accused of blaming Trump, it is helpful to be reminded of Martin Luther King's attempt to bridge the gap against racism and economic inequality.
Alex Rosenblat: Uberland. How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
: Uber's algorithms rewrite the conditions of work, says technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat. But the question is whether the app company is not just taking advantage of the existing conditions.