Big Tech at the Bingo

In ‘Big Tech at the Bingo’, Ella explores how British bingo players are resisting technosolutionism. With escalating costs and declining revenue, sharply exacerbated by the UK’s strict COVID-19 lockdowns, many companies are pivoting from what the industry calls land bingo to online bingo platform. Many land bingo players, however, want nothing to do with online bingo’s techno-optimistic values of convenience and progress and are raging against the closure of their halls.

The article is published in the special issue of LIMN, ‘This is not a Platform’, and informs a forthcoming CGHR research theme on technology resistance.

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