Fwd: Platform without Borders: The Podcast

[Lilly Irani]

Dr. Veronica Uribe del Águila was a Research Assistant at the Labor Center, now a professor in New York State. 

She's launched a podcast on workers cooperatives!

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Hi all, 

I am writing to share exciting news! 

In 2025, we (a group of activists, scholars, and tech cooperative workers from around the world) attended a three-day workshop in London, hosted by Essex University, to discuss platforms and labor. From this meeting emerged many friendships and projects. This is one of them! 

Platform without Borders, the Podcast aims to highlight alternative (i.e., better) models for platforms that center workers. Our first three episodes (season 1) showcase platforms developed by care workers in California, tech workers' cooperatives in Argentina and Brazil, as part of their organizing strategies to improve their labor conditions. Episodes are available with subtitles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. 

We hope this helps other scholars to amplify not only critiques of predatory and exploitative platforms but also workers’ efforts to create better platforms for themselves. Most importantly, we hope this encourages other scholars to work exclusively with cooperatives like Código Libre and autonomous, communitarian organizations like Barricada TV, both of which are involved in this project. 

We invite you to check out Platforms Without Borders - The Podcast  https://platformswithoutborders.org/  

To stay up to date, don't forget to follow us on Instagram @platformswithoutborders 

https://www.instagram.com/platformswithoutborders/  

Please help us spread the word as we begin working towards our second season! 

Warmly, 

Vero Verónica Uribe A.

Communication and Science Studies

University of California, San Diego

 veronicauribea.com 

New Email starting September 1st:

uri...@rpi.edu 

I respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay Nation that spans across and precedes the US-Mexico border.