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Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For me, there are few levels to this notion of ‘AI going rogue’, that correspond to how development of #AI will continue to challenge our perceptions and understanding of human oversight and accountability in an emergent ‘hybrid’ human-AI future. Follow at own peril: addyray.substack.com

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Algonomy | Adi Ray | Substack

The poly-ticks of our digital age. Newletter. Click to read Algonomy, by Adi Ray, a Substack publication.

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...

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

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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.

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

"Both countries had threatened to ban TikTok over user safety. But while the US forced the company to divest its American operations over Chinese political influence, Vietnam [...] is using law enforcement and interagency pressure to push the platform to censor content it deems toxic."

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How Vietnam and the US Differ in Using State Power to Regulate TikTok

Vietnam and the US are taking sharply different approaches to regulating TikTok, exposing tradeoffs between state power, user privacy, and national security.

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

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

Independent research identifies few learning gains

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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

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Zotero | Your personal research assistant

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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/...

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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

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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.

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.

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

Note: the above article piece is not completely about our research but includes some aspects and link to it. There are things here that do not completely reflect our position - Link to our original paper here - doi.org/10.1177/1024...

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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...

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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

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Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

sounds good! will look forward.

Aditya Ray @adiray.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Thanks Lin! Excited to see the special issue(s) coming out. I really wanted to attend the GCEG but had to pull out.The sessions looked great. Will love to do more work on innovation/tech development and leapfrogging in/from the global South. Be in touch :)

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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.

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I will be expanding on this work in the future from a more empirical national historical perspective of India's (digital) tech development. Promise I have it wirtten already 😂

Published in the special issue Platform Economies in Digital Asia thanks to @elainejyuan.bsky.social & @linzhang.bsky.social, who persisted.

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CPPE pivots on three core concepts: 📌 "Social blocs" - Tech development is shaped by shifting coalitions of state- society actors 📌 "Plural temporalities" Instead of linear stages, CPPE sees overlapping historical-political rhythms &...

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To challenge these assumptions, I propose Critical Postcolonial Political Economy (CPPE) approach. A pluralist confluence of known frames in: - Critical political economy - Postcolonial / heterdox economic geographies - Conjunctural analysis

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Enter postcolonial critique: e.g. Raghuram et al. 2013 Chakravartty (2004), Jazeel (2019) etc. who show development outcomes are ongoing shaped by uneven social and spatial power relations, but also resistance (agency), contingency, crisis and coalitions or social blocs.

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Growth models presume linear, teleological, technocratic progress, undermining asymmetric regional integration,histories & socio-political contestations that continously shape tech transformations. Developmental models essentialize state (&society) ignoring contested alliances/ subaltern agency.

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The piece challenges mainstream models framing Asia’s rise through familiar lens: tech-led growth, rational institutions, state-managed 🌏 integration ("Asian Miracle”, “Asian Century”). Instead it foregrounds conflict contradictions, context in how tech leapfrogging is imagined, governed, resisted.

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

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...

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

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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...

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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

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

Thanks @floriangrant.bsky.social for the engagement. Good to connect. We have focussed on informal labour organising in context of india gig economy movements quite directly - tracing back to other informal workers movements in India and globally (like WIEGO) - would be good to have reflections.

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

Follow the co-author of the paper and collaborator - Aju @islandexpress.bsky.social