iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A peerless career is drawing to a close, and so is mine, as a fan. I write about #Messi the dog, before he was the Goat. Repost, this time with the link: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Au Revoir, Messi the Dog (Substack post cover)

000

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A peerless career is drawing to a close, and so is mine, as a fan. I write about #Messi the dog, before he was the Goat.

Au revoir, Messi the Dog. Article cover.

110

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Didn't Novara media give up the ghost of being a rad left voice some time ago, if they ever.. this is a version of middle class left trying to make truce with a narrower, populist working class politics (won't work anyway), dictated by latter's reactionary & racist tendencies.

000

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think about this a lot a lot

220

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Un-Christian Nolan: Notes on the #Odyssey. 💡 Brief thoughts on whether Chris #Nolan has re-imagined Odyssey from a decidedly Christian (or Judaeo-Christian/ Protestant, read: WOKE) lens. The story of the usual #culturewars on Musk's X open.substack.com/pub/addyray/...

open.substack.com

The 'Un-Christian' Nolan: Notes on the Odyssey

Addressing the 'Anti-Woke' Culture Wars

010

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Technology needs oversight, no doubt. But is the #WorldCup and #VAR rigged? Simplest answer: No* simplereally.substack.com/p/is-the-wor...

simplereally.substack.com

Is the World Cup Rigged? The Simple answer: No*

by Adi Ray

010

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

“Trajectories of Platform Power in the AI Age: Infrastructure, Labour, and India’s Place in the Global Digital Economy" Today, in Bengaluru, we are bringing together an interesting group of researchers, practitioners and policy folks to think through some big questions. Updates to come.

020

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"Many of the issues raised by the Commission in the document are not about principles of data sharing, but rather generally poor compliance practices". The beacon of free speech everyone... soon we will have the X files

000

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The recently closed TikTok deal has some safeguards built in, but Chinese influence could persist. The fix: disclose licensing terms and let independent researchers verify what is happening on the platform, say Mark MacCarthy and Carl Schonander.

buff.ly

Mandated TikTok Transparency is Needed to Protect US Users

TikTok should disclose its licensing terms and let independent researchers verify what is happening on the platform, say Mark MacCarthy and Carl Schonander.

183

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

economist.com

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

Independent research identifies few learning gains

13516257

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

New housing and planning resource for Ireland – a publications hub. >1,800 academic, policy and sector publications relating to housing, property and planning in Ireland. Access at www.zotero.org/groups/55867... if there are pubs missing you want us to add, please send them to us and we will do so

zotero.org

Zotero | Your personal research assistant

194

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🪧 'Work and Employment in the Great Reshuffle: Navigating the Polycrisis' (WES 2026) We are organising the 2026 Work, Employment and Society Annual Conference! Call for abstracts now open. Deadline for submission is 20 March 2026. Full call for submissions here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

britsoc.co.uk

Submissions

000

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Its the era of cryptopolitics - where money flows from online exchanges without borders to influence decisions within borders.

031

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Some are jubilant about this, as if all is well with its democracy, yet we should not forget how illiberal discourses of rights have already gained prominence, (in)ordinately shaped by the class power and interests of elites.

001

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.com

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

2226

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

India doing a rapid hairpin bend on its road to digital in-security and state surveillance. #digital #surveillance

011

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Also an alum of the 2022 Montreal EGRG even. 10/10 would recommend. Early Careers please Apply.

020

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

To be fair, Coates wrote this piece because very few others who could do it, did. I see this as basic truth telling with journalist skills that others refused to employ.

010

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🚨 Our research on unions and organising in India's platform society covered in the media, for which both me and my co-author @islandexpress.bsky.social were also interviewed: "Why unions find it hard to forge worker solidarity in the platform economy". behanbox.com/2025/09/05/w...

behanbox.com

Why Unions Find It Hard To Forge Worker Solidarity In Platform Companies

In the platform economy, time is scarce, worker interactions are discouraged, and protests met with punishment. The idea of both union and unity are threatened

161

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Please check out @adiray.bsky.social's very timely piece proposing a post colonial critical political economy approach to studying platforms and digital technologies, contesting the Asian developmental model of leapfrogging. Another wonderful article from our social media+society special issue.

152

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models. Happey to see this piece out in Social Media + Society! Began life as 20K draft (another story..), with nudging I shaped part of it into a conceptual intervention. Open access 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

260

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Yup the blunders within the show and bluster was all too visible.

000

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Alex Wood @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Our article "Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work" has been published by 'Work, Employment and Society'. With Nick Martindale and @brendanburchell.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0950...

1169

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Very much looking forward to this talk from @wstronge.bsky.social on June 2nd in @uoe-sps.bsky.social

Space, service and identity: thinking through a progressive vision of work
June 2nd 2:30

0125

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age? Thrilled about this new open-access paper with @islandexpress in @compchange.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1177/1024... It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions:

7249

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This is gonna be great - join if you can!! 💥

142

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The Platforms and Society journal and AdTech Research Project present an Online Symposium How to Approach and Regulate Google? A New Perspective 12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528)

0104

Reposted by Aditya Ray

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

imagine paying $200 to watch a 2 hour French New Wave film that could have been collapsed into a 10 min scene of young people running around. $300 to watch In the Mood for Love, and in the end, they don't even kiss.

1563143268

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

📣 Call for Papers – Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations and International Relations journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

097

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Tech Giants are Mapping Global Migration: Meta's vast data reveals key insights into migration. While researchers will find conclusions familiar, data frm 3B users represents powerful new analysis tool. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #BigData #MigrationStudies #DigitalGeopolitics #TechEthics

nytimes.com

Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

110

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Skeletor Capital @skelecap.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Meta right now

1223

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On Day 1 of the Meta antitrust trial, the government was stuck arguing about a world — and a market — that no longer really exists www.platformer.news/meta-antitru...

The problem for the FTC, though, is that Bluesky exists now. So do Substack, Clubhouse, BeReal, and any other number of social products that didn’t exist before the government filed its case but still somehow emerged to attract millions of users. They might not be “personal social networking,” exactly, but they all are very much social networks. And they have competed with Meta hard enough for users’ time over the past four years that I am certain the company would have tried to acquire most of them were it not for the antitrust pressure Meta has been under since the FTC lawsuit was filed. (One reason, incidentally, that whatever the merits of the government’s case I remain grateful that it was filed, if only for the entrepreneurial oxygen it pumped into the market.)

6657103

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

📣 Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards 🏆 Got a killer monograph? A brilliant grad paper? Or been shaking things up through tech + labour organising? Designers, researchers, activists, tech workers + organisers Submit. Deadline: June 1, 2025

021

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Meanwhile I find the collective meltdown of American 'economic moguls' about nation's Chinese dependency extremely hilarious. They manage to fault Summers, Clinton & Bush for walking China into the WTO, thus making it the monster it is. Idk why they don't go all the way back to Eisenhower.... 😆

100

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Andrea Pollio @andretwp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Call for abstracts ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

053

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Trump's tariff is shock & awe. In the long run but it will lead to tactical recaliberation of the world economy. The more countries US can individually renegotiate with the better chances it thinks it has to continue its dominance and ring fence China. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.com

Vietnam Offers to Remove All Tariffs on US After Trump Action

Vietnam offered to remove all tariffs on US imports after President Donald Trump announced a 46% levy on the Southeast Asian nation, according to an April 5 letter from Vietnam’s communist party.

100

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Who knows the endgame from Trump? but if tariffs are real bargaining chips - this is shock and awe. There is going to be recaliberation once the tactical onslaught settles.

000

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Adam Mrozowicki @amrozowicki.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In our paper 'Patchwork capitalism and the management of interlinked crises by essential public services in Poland', we explore how public service actors have responded to interlinked crises. The paper has been been just published in International Labour Review: en.ilr-rit.org/article/pubi...

en.ilr-rit.org

Patchwork capitalism and the management of interlinked crises by essential public services in Poland

Contributing to the literature on the diversity of capitalism, this article shows how actors in the Polish public services responded to interlinked crises, namely the chronic public services crisis an...

242

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Why are universities pivoting to AI after initial panic about students cheating? @tressiemcphd.bsky.social gives a mini lecture on AI, politics, and inequality building on @dmgreene.bsky.social's work on the "access doctrine" www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...

instagram.com

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."

3,069 likes, 125 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".

15125

Reposted by Aditya Ray

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A massive, self-inflicted wound on American higher education.

16577153

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🚨Call for applications - WES PhD Showcase Writing Workshop, 2-3 June 2025 at the University of Nottingham, led by 4 @wesjnl.bsky.social editors. Excellent opportunity for 16 delegates. Open to international members, with limited contribution. see - www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

britsoc.co.uk

Publications Opportunities

113