What I have been reading (some) 

Some of the readings most recently added to My Zotero here rendered through the ZotPress plug-in

Slop Infrastructures 1 & 2. (2024, December 8). https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/slop-infrastructures-1-2/
Bernardes, C. B., & Queiroz, A. B. D. de. (2023). Engajamento Público nos Eventos Interativos do Portal E-Cidadania do Senado Federal. Revista Parlamento e Sociedade, 11(20), 41–60. https://parlamentoesociedade.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/254
aa. vv. (2025). From Citizen to Senator: How Brazil is Reimagining Citizen Engagement in the Age of AI. RebootDemocracy.AI. https://rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-citizen-engagement-in-brazil
RebootDemocracy.AI Blog | News That Caught Our Eye #55. (2025). https://rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaughtoureye/55
Hawkins, A. (2025, April 21). Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/humanoid-workers-and-surveillance-buggies-embodied-ai-is-reshaping-daily-life-in-china
Zhang, M., Xu, J., Zhao, P., & Chung, C. K. L. (n.d.). Thinking Through the Materiality of Big Data: An Outward-Looking Approach to Data Infrastructure. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.70005
Reimer, J. (2025, April 14). An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/a-history-of-the-internet-part-1-an-arpa-dream-takes-form/
Machirori, M. (2024). Spending wisely. Ada Lovelace Institute. https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/spending-wisely-procurement/
Chen, C. (2025). China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. MIT Technological Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1113802/china-ai-data-centers-unused/
Edwards, B. (2025, March 25). Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries. Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/
[Audio recording] (No. Indexicality). (n.d.). [Audio recording]. https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/indexicality-with-roland-meyer-and-gillian-rose
Meyer, R. (2025). “Platform Realism”. AI Image Synthesis and the Rise of Generic Visual Content. Transbordeur, 9. https://doi.org/10.4000/13dwq
Tone, S. (2025, February 18). As DeepSeek Expands, China’s Cities Roll Out ‘AI Public Servants.’ #SixthTone. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1016677
McQuillan, D. (2022). Resisting AI: an anti-fascist approach to artificial intelligence. Bristol University Press.
Muldoon, J., Graham, M., & Cant, C. (2024). Feeding the machine: the hidden human labour powering AI. Canongate.
Gill, J., & Graham, M. (2025). Q&A: EU law “last best hope” to protect ghost workers feeding AI | Context. https://www.context.news/ai/eu-law-last-best-hope-to-protect-ghost-workers-feeding-ai
Ward, K., Abbruzzese, T., Bunnell, T., Cardullo, P., Chang, I.-C. C., Miller, B., Ribera-Fumaz, R., Shin, H., Spicer, Z., & Woods, O. (2025). A comparison of comparisons: evidence from an international comparative study of “smart cities.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy.
Frenkiel, E., & Delorme, C. (2025). Boosting, not replacing: Online deliberation tools in a face-to-face student citizens’ assembly. Recherches en Communication, 56, 47–76. https://doi.org/10.14428/rec.v56i.78543
Chen, T. T.-Y. (2024). Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan’s open government data policy in the 2010s. Big Data & Society, 11(4), 20539517241296040. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241296038
Glasze, G., Cattaruzza, A., Douzet, F., Dammann, F., Bertran, M.-G., Bômont, C., Braun, M., Danet, D., Desforges, A., Géry, A., Grumbach, S., Hummel, P., Limonier, K., Münßinger, M., Nicolai, F., Pétiniaud, L., Winkler, J., & Zanin, C. (2023). Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty.
Farrell, M. (2024). We Need To Rewild The Internet. https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet
Douzet, F. (2014). Understanding Cyberspace with Geopolitics. Hérodote, 152153(1), 3–21. https://shs.cairn.info/journal-herodote-2014-1-page-3
Douzet, F. (2020). Cyberspace: the new frontier of state power. In S. Moisio, N. Koch, A. E. G. Jonas, C. Lizotte, & J. Luukkonen (Eds.), Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978057
Douzet, F. (2021). Guest editorial – From cyberspace to the datasphere: strategic challenges of the digital revolution. Journal of Cyber Policy, 6(1), 4–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/23738871.2021.1944244
Palacios Crisóstomo, N., & Kaufmann, D. (2024). Strategies and tactics in platform urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 48(5), 833–854. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13269
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Mahmoudi, D., Thatcher, J., Imaoka, L. B., & O’Sullivan, D. (2024). From FOSS to profit: Digital spatial technologies and the mode of production. Digital Geography and Society, 7, 100101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100101
Cardullo, P., & Kitchin, R. (2024). Provincialising platform citizenship: Citizen participation in and through civic platforms. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jdpu3
Lovink, G. (2022). Stuck on the platform. https://valiz.nl/en/publications/stuck-on-the-platform

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