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Can We Build a Fairer Platform Economy? Here’s How Counterhegemonic Alternative Platforms Are Trying

16 December 2025

Tech giants—Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft (GAFAM)—shape the platform economy through business models that often prioritise profit over fairness. This has…

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Europe and Bigh Tech: the INCA Final Conference in Brussels

16 December 2025

In January 2026, Brussels will host the convergence of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who have spent three years investigating one of contemporary…

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Data Materialities

1 October 2025

On September 20, the exhibition Data Materialities opened in the historic Sala d’Ercole of Palazzo d’Accursio in Bologna. The project, curated by…

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Mapping Trust in Tech Companies and Institutions of Governance Across Europe

26 September 2025

As tech companies increasingly shape communication, information flows, and even societalstructures, public trust in technology companies is no longer a purely commercial…

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The Core Phase of the Open Innovation Labs (OILs): Co-designing Alternative Ethical and Inclusive Digital Platforms

25 September 2025

Since our last update on the INCA Open Innovation Labs (OILs), advancements have been made within the WP 7. After their launch…

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Internet Cafe | EXTENTS Cyrus Peñarroyo, McLain Clutter [Interactive installation]

21 September 2025

Internet Cafe explores the physical space of the digital, starting from an “archaeological-media” recovery of the first internet cafés. In an era…

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Compiler Machine | Raúl Silva [Portable tents, video, ink on paper]

21 September 2025

Compiler Machine is a video installation formed through three portable tents, inspired by those historically used by telecommunications technicians to work in…

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Of Sand and Stones (Blueprints) | Morgane Billuart [3D animation video, 8-10 minutes, 2025]

21 September 2025

Of Sand and Stones is a video installation that explores the ecological and symbolic weight of semiconductors, often invisible but fundamental components…

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GAFAM’s Labour Practices and Their Impacts: Findings from European Case Studies

3 July 2025

Researchers from the University of Barcelona, the University of Wroclaw, ColaBOR, and the University of Bologna have carried out research on how…

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Understanding Industrial Relations in the Platform Economy in EU: Insights from Southern and Central and Eastern Europe

5 June 2025

As digital platforms reshape the world of work, they are also shaking up the systems that govern collective and individual labour relations….