Alina Utrata talks to Dr Maha Atal, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow who studies the political economy of corporate power and was previously an award-winning journalist reporting on the tech industry. They discuss how the history of company-rule and colonization relates to the tech industry, how tech companies exert power in the Global South, why Silicon Valley’s “Janus faces” allows it to escape state regulation, and whether the perception of technology corporations has changed, from the tech-utopian days of the Obama administration to now. 

Selected articles by Maha Atal

The Janus faces of Silicon Valley http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/247127/

Is Google evil? http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2009/08/online-search-google-datak

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Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod

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