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Silicon Valley

Series of multi-colored globes in a pile.
Issue 41 by Archana Madhavan on September 7th, 2016
If an app isn’t developed firstly for the Western market, tech press suggests its success isn’t worth knowing about.
A view of the Golden Gate Bridge from a bluff facing the city; San Francisco's high-rises are visible between the bridge beams on a slightly foggy day.
Issue 39 by Maria Noel Fernandez & Julian Posadas & Matt Schaefer on July 28th, 2016
"As folks talk about the booming economy and the wealth and incredible jobs that tech is creating, the folks that are being left behind are the invisible workforce, are people of color. "
Ariel view of Silicon Valley: grids of housing and greenery bisected by roads, the tip of the airplane wing just visible in the right-hand corner.
Issue 39 by Maria Noel Fernandez & Julian Posadas & Matt Schaefer on July 28th, 2016
"...we will always win when we take on fights or campaigns like this, because we know that our fight is relational. We can build coalitions, we can build relationships, and that’s what makes us twice as strong. The opposition is about dollars and figures. "
Three people standing on a skeletal wooden tractor, pointing upward. The scenery is lush and green, with a vast blue sky.
Issue 22 by Anne Pasek on June 9th, 2015
Configuring tools as a mode of straightforward escape from oppression, be it poverty or unfulfilling work, risks ignoring existing material practices and organizations that hold us to systems of inequity.
Aerial shot of Silicon Valley and the Bay.
Surveillance by Elijah Sparrow on October 9th, 2014
Since the dot-com crash, data collection and analysis have become the core DNA of most internet companies.
Photo of the Oracle campus behind a vast blue fountain. The four office buildings are looming, reflective, futuristic, blue and cylindrical against a day sky.
Management by Lesli-Ann Lewis on June 9th, 2014
Tech, the latest bastion of structural and economic White supremacy.