Not only are books written from positions that are never neutral, but they are also read from positions which are also never neutral. The three commentaries we received come from diverse perspectives (labor, gender, and decolonial studies) and each of them generates different readings and raises important questions. In the following response we will address the labor, gender, and decolonial issues raised by the reviewers.
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BoniniTTreréE (2025) “Confronting methodological and ethical challenges in the study of algorithms and digital labour”. In: BulutEChenJGrohmannRJarrettK (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour. London: Sage.
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BoniniTTreréEYuZ, et al (2024) Cooperative affordances: how instant messaging apps afford learning, resistance and solidarity among food delivery workers. Convergence30(1): 554–571.
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CasilliAA (2017) Global digital culture| digital labor studies go global: toward a digital decolonial turn. International Journal of Communication11: 21.
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GandiniA (2021) Digital labour: An empty signifier?Media, Culture & Society43(2): 371–372.
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GuptaS (2020, June) Gendered gigs: Understanding the gig economy in New Delhi from a gendered perspective. In: Proceedings of the 2020 international conference on information and communication technologies and development, pp.1–10.
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HallSJeffersonT (1976) Resistance through Rituals. London: Harper Collins.
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Hidalgo-CorderoK (2025) Book review of Algorithms of Resistance. In: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power. Dialogues on Digital Society. MIT Press.
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JamesA (2022) Women in the gig economy: feminising ‘digital labour’. Work in the Global Economy2(1): 2–26.
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LeeS (2025) Defiant voices: the emergence of the platform working class. Dialogues on Digital Society.
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MilanSTreréE (2019) Big data from the south(s): Beyond data universalism. Television & New Media20(4): 319–335.
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MilanSTreréE (2024) Against decolonial reductionism: the impact of Latin American thinking on the data decolonization project. Big Data & Society11(4): 20539517241270694.
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MilkmanRElliott-NegriLGriesbachK, et al. (2021) Gender, class, and the gig economy: the case of platform-based food delivery. Critical Sociology47(3): 357–372.
TreréE (2022) Data and de-westernization. In: DencikLHintzAReddenJ (eds) Data Justice. London: Sage, 41–58.
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UdupaSDattatreyanEG (2023) Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media. New York University Press.
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VijayD (forthcoming) Qualifying the agnosticism of algorithms: a review of Bonini and Trere's algorithms of resistance: the everyday fight against platform power. Dialogues on Digital Society.
