Solidarity, with Shannon Wait

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The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Mél Hogan

69 episodes

2 weeks ago

Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see thedatafix.net for more details and show notes. Thank you so much for listening.

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Education

Technology,

Society & Culture

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Solidarity, with Shannon Wait

The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

52 minutes 58 seconds

5 months ago

Solidarity, with Shannon Wait

In this episode, Shannon Wait — Alphabet Workers Union-CWA organizer — speaks with me about the labour conditions for data center and AI workers. We talk about contracts, sub-contracts, sub-sub-contracts, NDAs, invisible labour -- and how all of this leads to unions, solidarity, and a fight for tech workers’ rights globally. Recorded May 8, 2025. Released June 2, 2025.

Interview with Shannon Wait, Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Organizer (2024)

https://poweratwork.us/shannon-wait-interview

A union of Alphabet workers in the U.S. and Canada

https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/

Google Raters Participated in Historic Action at Google HQ to Demand Google End Poverty Wages for 5,000 Workers

https://code-cwa.org/news/google-raters-participated-historic-action

The woman who took on Google and won (2021)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56659212

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