Click Meets Class: Technology, Power, and Labor Between Inequality and Solidarity

Artificial intelligence, platform economies, and algorithmic governance shape how we work, communicate, and perceive political reality. We are witnessing a social divide in which solidarity is under pressure: technologies redistribute opportunities, risks, and visibility — often along existing lines of social inequality. While highly skilled knowledge work is being valorized, many forms of (digital) labor remain precarious, invisible, or outsourced.

In this session, we ask:
•      why technology always reproduces power relations
•      how digital systems weaken or enable solidarity
•      what alternatives exist to digital fatalism
•      what it means in concrete terms not to leave the internet and digital labor to those in power

At the center lies the question of what solidarity can look like under digital conditions. Because democracy, justice, and participation do not emerge automatically—they must be collectively fought for, negotiated, and shaped.