URBASOFIA have released a new document titled “Designing Ethical Digital Platforms for Civic Participation: How to Build Social Media that Serves Democracy.” Developed within…
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society researchers Alina Kontareva, Stephan Bohn and Sarah Spitz have released a new document titled…
INCA researchers from the University of Barcelona have published a new paper entitled “Beyond the algorithm: Cooperative alternatives to platform capitalism in…
As a result of the work carried out in the Open Innovation Labs in Barcelona, Bologna, and Bucharest, the INCA team has…
On 27 January, Euskadi Irratia, the public radio broadcaster of the Basque Country, aired an interview with Manex Urruzola, a member of…
On January 22, the second and final day of the INCA Final Conference took place in Brussels, bringing together project researchers and…
Today, January 21, the first day of the INCA Final Conference took place in Brussels, bringing together over 20 project researchers at…
Tech giants—Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft (GAFAM)—shape the platform economy through business models that often prioritise profit over fairness. This has…
In January 2026, Brussels will host the convergence of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who have spent three years investigating one of contemporary…
On 4 December, INCA member Inge Graef from Tilburg University took part in the DIGITAL SME Summit, held at the European Economic…
INCA member Inge Graef from Tilburg University has contributed to the KVS Preadviezen 2025, an annual collection of expert policy reports, with…
On 27 November, a joint international workshop on Infrastructures of Rent Extraction took place in Bologna. The event was organised by INCA…
The INCA Exhibition Virtualità Materiali in Lugano concluded on 22 November after being open to the public for three weeks. The final…
The University of Barcelona, in collaboration with CIDOB Think Tank and the Horizon Europe research project DignityFIRM, has published a report summarizing the…
On November 12, Niccolò Cuppini (SUPSI), together with Mattia Frapporti and Maurilio Pirone (University of Bologna), took part in the Cooperative AI…
The INCA exhibition Virtualità Materiali has recently attracted the interest of both radio and television in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland. On…
On October 31, as part of the Virtualità Materiali exhibition program, a roundtable titled “Behind Digital Platforms: New Educational Approaches for Ticino…
On October 30, the INCA exhibition, on this occasion titled Virtualità Materiali, opened in Lugano. After its first presentation in Bologna, the…
Szymon Pilch, Adam Mrozowicki and Olga Gitkiewicz, INCA researchers from the University of Wrocław, have published a paper entitled “Opór pracowniczy, zarządzanie algorytmiczne…
From October 30 to November 22, the INCA Exhibition on the materiality of data will be in Lugano at Limonaia di Villa…
On October 10, the final event presenting the work of INCA’s Open Innovation Laboratories (OILs) took place at Sala Anziani, Palazzo d’Accursio…
On 10 October 2025, the INCA educational module was publicly launched at Sala Anziani, Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologna, as part of the activities…
On 8 October 2025, the talk “Economies of measurement: from productivity, to movement, to desire” took place at Sala Tassinari, Palazzo d’Accursio…
On 1 October 2025, the talk Promiscuous Approaches to Digital Spatiality took place at Sala Verde, Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologna, as part of…
On September 20, the exhibition Data Materialities opened in the historic Sala d’Ercole of Palazzo d’Accursio in Bologna. The project, curated by…
As tech companies increasingly shape communication, information flows, and even societalstructures, public trust in technology companies is no longer a purely commercial…
Since our last update on the INCA Open Innovation Labs (OILs), advancements have been made within the WP 7. After their launch…
On September 21st, INCA partner Olga Gitkiewicz from the University of Wrocław discussed INCA’s research on Amazon on the Polish Tok.fm podcast by Anna…
On September 20, the INCA Exhibition “Data Materialities” was officially inaugurated in Bologna, in the historic Sala d’Ercole of Palazzo d’Accursio. The…
Internet Cafe explores the physical space of the digital, starting from an “archaeological-media” recovery of the first internet cafés. In an era…
Compiler Machine is a video installation formed through three portable tents, inspired by those historically used by telecommunications technicians to work in…
Of Sand and Stones is a video installation that explores the ecological and symbolic weight of semiconductors, often invisible but fundamental components…
On 17 September, INCA coordinator Edoardo Mollona attended the Final Conference of our sister project Rebalance, held at the Le Benedettine Conference…
On September 16, 2025, the Final Event of the Bucharest Open Innovation Lab (OIL) within INCA took place at Seneca Anticafe, Bucharest,…
On Saturday, September 20, the INCA exhibition “Data Materialities” will open in Bologna, hosted in the historic Sala d’Ercole of Palazzo d’Accursio,…
Gazeta Wyborcza, one of Poland’s largest and most influential newspapers, has published an article on working conditions and trade unions at Amazon,…
Adam Mrozowicki and Szymon Pilch, INCA researchers from the University of Wrocław, have published a paper entitled “Power resources and grassroots activism: Worker organising…
On July 16, INCA members Verna Alcalde and Fabiola Mancinelli of the University of Barcelona made a presentation at the 9th of…
From July 6 to 11, the INCA team participated in the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology held in Rabat, Morocco. The conference aimed to…
Researchers from the University of Barcelona, the University of Wroclaw, ColaBOR, and the University of Bologna have carried out research on how…
The Urbasofia team has created an infographic (attached below) in which they have gathered the conclusions they have drawn from the survey…
Inge Graef and Friso Bostoen, INCA researchers from the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society have recently published a paper entitled “A typology…
On 5 June, INCA’s Barcelona OIL was officially launched at an event co-organised by the University of Barcelona, INCA’s partner in charge…
As digital platforms reshape the world of work, they are also shaking up the systems that govern collective and individual labour relations….
On May 26th, INCA researchers Mattia Frapporti (University of Bologna) and Adam Mrozowicki (University of Wrocław) participated in the COSMOS Conference «Reclaiming…
On May 22, the workshop “Co-design space: platform creation and process governance” took place as part of the INCA Open Innovation Lab…
Adam Mrozowicki and Szymon Pilch, INCA researchers from the University of Wrocław, have recently published a paper entitled “Digitalisation and the Varieties…
In Switzerland, within the INCA project, SUPSI has been granted for a side money project from the Mercator Schweiz Foundation named SwissINCA….
The final stage of our work in WP3 of the INCA project was to take a first step in the direction of…
Extensive empirical work conducted in several EU countries as part of the INCA project shows that the changes and challenges induced by…
Far from being a homogeneous process, the so-called global connectivity is actually a fragmented and layered process, where not all actors and…
From April 9 to 11, nearly 30 INCA partners participated in the Consortium Meeting held in Lisbon, organized by the Collaborative Laboratory…
Our partner, SUPSI, within INCA, has received funding for a side project from the Mercator Schweiz Foundation called SwissINCA. This initiative aims…
On 11-14 March the INCA team participated in the STS-Hub 2025 Conference ‘Diffracting the Critical’ held in Berlin. The three-day event included…
As the first activity of the Bucharest Open Innovation Laboratory (OIL), the Urbasofia team has launched a questionnaire entitled “Rethinking Social Platforms:…
On 6 February, the Bucharest Open Innovation Lab (OIL) was presented at an event organised by the Bucharest-Ilfov Regional Development Agency in…
From 29 January to 1 February, INCA members participated in the IX SISEC Conference. The event, held in Pavia (Italy), was entitled…
Among the main objectives of the INCA project is to stimulate critical thinking and to provide citizens with information on the dangers…
THE ISSUE What media say when they talk about GAFAM? How do GAFAM represent their role in the society? Do these representations…
One of the main goals of the INCA project is the active engagement of citizens and stakeholders to formulate policies and to…
While the issue of platform power has received an overwhelming amount of attention in academic and policy circles, its concerns have so…
The recent political victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election brought about as a significant consequence a central political role…
On December 5th 2024, the Bologna Open Innovation Lab (OIL) was launched within the Just Transition 2nd Forum in the dedicated event…
On 28 November, Joint International Workshop has taken place in Lisbon, organized by the Institute of Contemporary History of Lisbon and the…
On 21 to 23 October, the INCA filming team was conducting the final set of interviews in Bologna. On this occasion, we…
On 22 October, a research seminar was held in Bologna, organized by INCA partners UNIBO, SUPSI, and Fondazione IU Rusconi Ghigi. Under…
On 16-18 October, the 7th edition of the Social Boundaries of Work International Conference was held in Wroclaw, co-organised by INCA members…
On 17 October, taking advantage of the fact that the artists selected for the INCA exhibition were doing their residency in Bologna,…
From October 14 to 18 is being held the residency for the INCA exhibition “The Big Tech and Counter-Technologies”. The five selected…
In the INCA’s project report entitled ‘Reconfiguration of labour power resources within platform capitalism’ (D2.2) our aim is to understand the interplay…
The political and economic transformation of Eastern and Central Europe (ECE) since the fall of the Iron Curtain has been a complex…
“If we are lucky and humanity starts to take the climate crisis seriously, we will probably end up spending even more time…
After an unforeseen quantity of applications, we are very pleased to announce the four projects selected for the INCA EXHIBITION: Big Tech and…
On 27-30 August, INCA partners Olga Gitkiewicz and Szymon Pilch (University of Wrocław) participated in the 16th Sociological Congress of the European…
We are pleased to announce that we have completed half of the interviews for INCA’s documentary on data. Data has become a…
On 9 July, in the context of the INCA project, a panel was held on ‘What We Know About How Algorithms Affect…
From 4 to 6 July, INCA partner Inge Graef (Tilburg University) presented ongoing work about data intermediaries at the ASCOLA Conference, which…
On 4-6 July 2024, the INCA partners Edoardo Mollona (the project coordinator, from UNIBO), Alina Contareva (HIIG) and Stephan Bohn (HIIG) participated…
INCA project coordinator Edoardo Mollona has co-edited a book entitled: “Disruptive Digitalisation and Platforms: Risks and Opportunities of the Great Transformation of…
Fourth INCA workshop On 16 May, as part of the programme of the first INCA scientific meeting held in Donostia/San Sebastian, took…
The INCA project is generating media interest. Taking advantage of the first Scientific Meeting held in Donostia/San Sebastian on 16-17 May, some…
We are pleased to announce an open call for projects exploring themes of Big Tech and Counter-Technologies. Big Tech and Counter-Technologies is an…
On 16 and 17 May San Sebastian/Donostia is hosting the first INCA scientific meeting. A year and a half after the project…
Digital platforms have drastically changed the way we buy, move, take care of each other and work, among other things. In the…
March has been a significant month for advancing the European Union’s legal framework on digital technologies. After over two years of intense…
On April 4, 2024, Dr. Szymon Pilch, from the University of Wrocław team, presented a paper titled “The struggle of workers and…
On 14 March 2024, the INCA partners Niccolò Cuppini and Maurilio Pirone offered a Sociology Research Seminar in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, hosted by the Babeș-Bolyai…
On March 4, 2024, INCA partner Dr Adam Mrozowicki, from the University of Wrocław team, held a guest lecture during the course…
On 22 February 2024, the INCA team from the University of Wroclaw presented a paper based on INCA project findings at the…
From 6 to 8 February, a workshop on the relationship between digital platforms and the urban environment took place in Singapore. This…
On Sunday, 11 February, is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and INCA wants to get closer to the…
The INCA partner Niccolò Cuppini, from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), has curated the last issue…
A group of 20 experts met at the Tilburg University campus on Thursday 25 January 2024 to discuss different forms of platform…
On 9 January 2024, the members of the Department of Sociology of Work and the Economy (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) Prof. Adam Mrozowicki and…
While promoting economic growth and labour transformations, digital platforms pose challenges to policymakers and citizens in relation to people’s participation in decision-making…
Third INCA workshop On 13 December 2023, the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) team of the INCA project…
The INCA partner UNIBO has conducted an ambitious and in-depth historical analysis of the historical relationship between democracies and the economy. This…
The University of Tartu and the University of Wrocław have dug into a sweeping account of the politics behind the varieties of…
On 9 November 2023, the University of Barcelona’s INCA teams gave a presentation at the Twentieth Historical Materialism Conference at SOAS (London)….
The second day of the INCA Technical Meeting in Wroclaw was very productive. On the one hand, the work packages on communication,…
From 25 to 27 October, the second technical meeting of the INCA project is taking place in Wrocław (Poland), in the main…
On 13 October 2023, a seminar was held in Milan on the politics of platform work for better working conditions: “Towards a…
Second INCA workshop On 12 October 2023, the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) team of the INCA project…
INCA has completed its first year of operation. Since October 2022, the project consortium has been laying the foundations to make INCA…
On 28 September, the European Commission offered the third round of the “Let’s Talk competition”: It’s soon time for DMA compliance. The…
Members of the INCA consortium are participating in the Industrial Relations in Europe conference in Durham, UK. The conference, which is taking…
The first INCA workshop Infrastructures have been always conceptualized as being at once an invisible and fundamental substrate of modern societies: a…
A consortium of 11 partners from different countries in Europe makes up the multidisciplinary team of this project. We have conducted interviews…
The Bologna Attiva team by the INCA partner Fondazione Innovazione Urbana (FIU), worked together with Into the Black Box, formed among others by…
On October 2022, the INCA project came into being. INCA, “Increase corporate political responsibility and accountability”, is a Horizon Europe project, coordinated…
