Team members

Eleanor Shearer

Senior Research Fellow

Mathew Lawrence

Director
2026-08-26
26.08.2026

US Big Tech and the US Government: Frenemy Relations Among the Coalition That Governs Western Capitalism

The close, conflictual relationship between US Big Tech and the federal government is a structural feature of US technology development, investment, and governance.
2025-06-26
26.06.2025

Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why US Cloud Giants Benefit from DeepSeek and Other Chinese Companies’ AI Strategies

Competition in the global AI market favours the US companies who dominate the cloud.
2024-09-11
11.09.2024

Take Back the Future: Democratising Power over AI

Introducing Common Wealth’s programme of work on challenging the concentrated market power of Big Tech.

Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI

Big Tech dominates investment in AI technology; a public strategy for regulation is crucial to challenge uneven distributions of economic power.
2021-09-15
15.09.2021

Digital Co-Ops and the Democratic Economy

2021-02-05
05.02.2021

Interview: David Turner on Streaming, Private Equity, and Musicians’ Unions

The UK parliamentary inquiry into the economics of music streaming offers a new look at the buying and selling of culture.

Big Tech's Monopoly Power

2020-12-02
02.12.2020

A Common Platform: Reimagining Data and Platforms

2020-10-19
19.10.2020

Interview: Peter Geoghegan on Dark Money, Online Advertising, and Electoral Reform

“We've basically outsourced huge aspects of our democracy to tech companies”
2020-07-20
20.07.2020

Data and the Future of Work

Among the areas of life affected by the pandemic, work is perhaps the sphere that has been most radically reshaped.
2020-05-20
20.05.2020

Mapping Digital Infrastructure

Covid-19 has exposed a deep digital divide.
2020-05-18
18.05.2020

Democratic Digital Infrastructure

Building a 21st century digital infrastructure should be a key goal of a bold economic recovery plan after Covid-19.
2019-12-09
09.12.2019

Full Fibre Futures: Democratic Ownership and the UK's Digital Infrastructure

Reimagining the internet will require new models of democratic ownership. A Common Wealth report on the future of broadband.
2019-11-01
01.11.2019

Digital Public Assets: Rethinking Value, Access and Control of Public Sector Data in the Platform Age

We can reclaim our data by treating it as a public good.
2019-09-20
20.09.2019

The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution

What does a socialist plan for digital media really look like?
2024-04-03
03.04.2024

Interview: Dalia Gebrial

Common Wealth’s Amelia Horgan spoke to Dalia Gebrial about race, the platform economy, and the boundaries of work.
2023-06-08
08.06.2023

Interview: Aaron Benanav

Common Wealth’s Amelia Horgan spoke to sociologist and economic historian Aaron Benanav about ChatGPT, post-scarcity, and automation.
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