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#Pervasive Labour Union zine
##By Lídia Pereira
Initiated in 2015, the Pervasive Labour Union zine not only seeks to offer a low-barrier entry level for contributors wishing to express their views on corporate social networking labour, but also a low-barrier entry level for those wishing to become acquainted with these debates. It tries to gather existing knowledge and conversations, while opening up that debate and creating new discourses of user organization and expression.
It brings together personal rants, academic texts, poetry, photo montages, collages, drawings, etc., addressing topics such as Terms of Service, Advertisement or Pervasiveness. Each issue attempts to establish an interconnecting discourse around topics such as labour on corporate social networks, algorithmic governance, user disobedience and resistance, and federated social networking alternatives.
During the presentation I will be looking back through the zine’s short history, allowing me to fully explore the perceived and concretized affordances of the format, my particular workflows and respective iterations, as well as the lessons learned during the whole process.
Lídia Pereira (PT) is an independent designer, artist, and researcher based in Rotterdam. She graduated in Communication Design from the School of Fine Arts in Porto and Media Design and Communication from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. She is the founding editor of the Pervasive Labour Union zine (2015-…), a publication which focuses on all topics relating to labour on corporate social networking platforms.