Sakine is also part of the data-workers.org - co-organized by @MilagrosMiceli & supported by the @JWI_Berlin & @DAIRInstitute - launching on the 8th of July this year. Tune in with @bherlo @San_amd & @lena_ulbricht at purplecode.org to listen to this episode now!

But beyond these institutions, they also find hope in networking with different communities in Berlin and internationally for sharing resources and organizing. Aida currently works in the civil society sector and Sakine is an independent researcher and essayist. 4/

They go on to recount their experiences of challenging these power asymmetries through German institutional resources and trade unions, and the difficulties they have faced in the process. Unions need to reflect and make certain changes - they suggest. 3/

They explain to us the work of moderating social media content & how labor and skill intensive it is. Instead of being valued, content moderators face high control and even repression, a kind of corporate authoritarianism that reminds them of the authoritarian regime in Iran. 2/

📢New episode alert on purplecode.org! In this very special epsiode we speak with Aida Eyvazzadeh and Sakine M. Bozorg - two content moderators from Iran - about why and how migrant workers in Germany constitute a crucial labor supply to the global platform economy. 1/

Behind the scenes with another very special guest Helena Mihaljevic @h_mihaljevic, data science professor @HTW_Berlin & @ECDigitalFuture. Together with our very cool sound editor Jakob Stratmann at his studio in Berlin. Episode coming soon with @bherlo @lena_ulbricht & @San_amd!