Technology
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Power plays: the rise of game worker unions
Amid global economic crisis, business is booming in the gaming industry. It’s time to step up the fight for worker’s rights, Emma Kinema tells Marzena Zukowska
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Live debate: Can video games change the world?
Globally, 2.5 billion people play video games. Is the left in danger of overlooking their immense power and influence?
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The spoils of playing war
Video games play a key role in sustaining the global military-industrial complex, writes Marzena Zukowska
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Video games are for everyone
Don’t believe the stereotypes, says Sher Jamal Stone. Video games are for everyone
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Can video games change the world?
Siobhán McGuirk introduces our series on the politics of video games by asking ‘can video games change the world?
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Deleting Facebook isn’t enough: The rise of ‘surveillance capitalism’
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has put data harvesting in the spotlight, writes Tom Walker – but the problem goes far beyond Facebook
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Cybersyn and Allende’s socialist internet
Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup
