The Newsroom

BomaliQ Media Coverage

The Newsroom

Broadcasting the BomaliQ’s Silicon Kolkhoz to the global public.

About the BomaliQ Newsroom

This hub serves as the official archive for BomaliQ’s media appearances, public intelligence dispatches, and global press coverage. We provide journalists, policymakers, and broadcasters with the strategic frameworks they need to decode the hidden mechanics of the digital and platform economies.

Core Areas of Expertise

BomaliQ bridges rigorous academic research (via the emoLab) with actionable socio-economic intelligence. We provide data-backed commentary on the following systemic shifts:

  • Surveillance pricing & algorithmic extraction: The mechanics of predatory value capture in retail and tech.

  • The Silicon Kolkhoz & digital sovereignty: How platforms centralize power, creating digital sharecroppers out of users and businesses.

  • Corporate platformization: The erosion of human judgment, decisional atrophy, and operational friction.

  • Prosumption & agentic AI: The socio-economic impacts of automated compliance and the illusion of consumer convenience.

Media Inquiries & Briefings

Dr. Mathieu Lajante is available for expert on-the-record commentary, broadcast interviews (TV/Radio), op-eds, and background policy briefings. Commentary can be provided in both English and French.

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Resistance to the Silicon Kolkhoz is growing worldwide. Kenya's demand that X establish a physical office in Nairobi within 90 days is the latest sign of a broader shift underway across Africa, where governments are seeking greater control over the p
Dating apps are boosted by AI, accelerating the value extraction through prosumption. For corporate leaders, the dating app industry is the blueprint of corporate platformization through agentic AI.
Self-checkout systems aren't about innovation or collaboration between companies and consumers. They're about maximizing profits while weakening social norms of reciprocity and responsibility.
Le départ volontaire de milliers de salariés de Rogers conduit à une plateformisation de la production de services où les prosumers sont amenés à produire avec l'IA le service qu'ils consomment.
Showcasing of our research on free labor at self-checkout systems, prosumers and the new frontier of value creation
Prosumers, surveillance, and value extraction at the self-checkouts
What these new technologies really means for workers and consumers
Surveillance Pricing and the NDP Motion (in French)
Romance platformization and click work
People in Saskatchewan are getting fed up with dating apps, with growing 'throw-away' culture. People are turning to alternative methods like matchmaking
An audit of the platform economy’s most intimate frontier.