Andrew White
@apw1970.bsky.social
Academic/writer. Senior lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative Industries @ KCL. Researches: universal basic income; music streaming platforms
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Andrew White
@apw1970.bsky.social
· Oct 29
Inequality in the Digital Economy
This book argues for universal basic income as a response to structural problems in the digital economy, emphasizing its benefits and refuting objections.
link.springer.com
After a long, meandering journey of a few years or more, I’m very happy to have got this over the line.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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The new documentary ’Bowie: The Final Act’ will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK on 3rd January at 9.30pm, it‘s 90 minutes long.
Watch the trailer: www.davidbowienews.com/.../bowie-th...
Watch the trailer: www.davidbowienews.com/.../bowie-th...
December 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The new documentary ’Bowie: The Final Act’ will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK on 3rd January at 9.30pm, it‘s 90 minutes long.
Watch the trailer: www.davidbowienews.com/.../bowie-th...
Watch the trailer: www.davidbowienews.com/.../bowie-th...
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“In Axiang, I saw the 1970s. Or rather, I saw the remnants of the youthful ideals of that generation… They clung to their dreams even as they lived ramshackle lives in cramped, damp shacks.” Zheng Xiaoqiong’s oral history of life in Guangdong’s factories @Equatormag: www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR
For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution
www.equator.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“In Axiang, I saw the 1970s. Or rather, I saw the remnants of the youthful ideals of that generation… They clung to their dreams even as they lived ramshackle lives in cramped, damp shacks.” Zheng Xiaoqiong’s oral history of life in Guangdong’s factories @Equatormag: www.equator.org/articles/the...
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Ireland is one of the few countries where a basic income scheme has been extended beyond the pilot stage. Artists and writers reflect on why the basic income scheme for artists worked and how it could be better in my report on @theworld.org Listen and read here: theworld.org/stories/2025...
Ireland hopes to make a program giving artists a stable income permanent - The World from PRX
In 2022, the Irish government launched a basic income scheme for artists. It randomly selected 2,000 artists and paid them around $1,500 a month, so they could concentrate on their creative work. Now ...
theworld.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Ireland is one of the few countries where a basic income scheme has been extended beyond the pilot stage. Artists and writers reflect on why the basic income scheme for artists worked and how it could be better in my report on @theworld.org Listen and read here: theworld.org/stories/2025...
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In 2022, the Irish government launched a basic income scheme for artists. It randomly selected 2,000 artists and paid them about $1,500 a month so they could focus on their creative work. The government is now planning to make the program permanent.
Ireland hopes to make a program giving artists a stable income permanent - The World from PRX
In 2022, the Irish government launched a basic income scheme for artists. It randomly selected 2,000 artists and paid them around $1,500 a month, so they could concentrate on their creative work. Now ...
theworld.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In 2022, the Irish government launched a basic income scheme for artists. It randomly selected 2,000 artists and paid them about $1,500 a month so they could focus on their creative work. The government is now planning to make the program permanent.
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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The Home Office continues to use language that its own data refutes
December 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The Home Office continues to use language that its own data refutes
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Really thrilled to be working with @joannegh.bsky.social, Anamika Saha, Sanjay Sharma, @cimethods.bsky.social and our industry partners on this. Have a research project that can shape the future of the screen industries? Come and join us!
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🚀 Applications are OPEN for Creative Bridges CDT, a pioneering PhD programme to diversify talent in the screen industries! Fully funded studentships available. Apply by 20 April 2026 👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk #PhDOpportunity #ScreenIndustries #DiversityInMedia
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Really thrilled to be working with @joannegh.bsky.social, Anamika Saha, Sanjay Sharma, @cimethods.bsky.social and our industry partners on this. Have a research project that can shape the future of the screen industries? Come and join us!
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Great piece updating the critique of culture industries for the age of the platform mega-rentier www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Great piece updating the critique of culture industries for the age of the platform mega-rentier www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Many newspapers and politicians have been calling yesterday's fiscal statement a 'Budget for Benefits Street'. Here's three reasons why that is not accurate 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Many newspapers and politicians have been calling yesterday's fiscal statement a 'Budget for Benefits Street'. Here's three reasons why that is not accurate 🧵
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI everywhere.
scottsantens.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
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We in Reading are proud of the many immigrant diasporas who have enriched our town’s economy and culture. Many immigrant families in Reading, such as Hong Kong BNO citizens, have asked me about the government’s future plans concerning indefinite leave to remain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We in Reading are proud of the many immigrant diasporas who have enriched our town’s economy and culture. Many immigrant families in Reading, such as Hong Kong BNO citizens, have asked me about the government’s future plans concerning indefinite leave to remain.
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🎧 More and more artists are leaving Spotify. What are the political and economic reasons driving the exodus? And how can you support your favourite musicians?
Read Dr Andrew White's @apw1970.bsky.social @kingscmci.bsky.social article for @theconversation.com 🔽
Read Dr Andrew White's @apw1970.bsky.social @kingscmci.bsky.social article for @theconversation.com 🔽
COMMENT: Why musicians are leaving Spotify – and what it means for the music you love | King's College London
Spotify is haemorrhaging artists. In the last few months alone a handful of indie bands have exited the streaming platform. If that includes some of your favourite musicians, you may be wondering how ...
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🎧 More and more artists are leaving Spotify. What are the political and economic reasons driving the exodus? And how can you support your favourite musicians?
Read Dr Andrew White's @apw1970.bsky.social @kingscmci.bsky.social article for @theconversation.com 🔽
Read Dr Andrew White's @apw1970.bsky.social @kingscmci.bsky.social article for @theconversation.com 🔽
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🎵 Why are musicians leaving Spotify?
Streaming transformed the industry, but concerns over fair compensation and creative control are driving change. Could this shift redefine how we access and value music?
Dr Andrew White @apw1970.bsky.social explains for @theconversation.com ⤵️
Streaming transformed the industry, but concerns over fair compensation and creative control are driving change. Could this shift redefine how we access and value music?
Dr Andrew White @apw1970.bsky.social explains for @theconversation.com ⤵️
COMMENT: Why musicians are leaving Spotify – and what it means for the music you love | King's College London
Spotify is haemorrhaging artists. In the last few months alone a handful of indie bands have exited the streaming platform. If that includes some of your favourite musicians, you may be wondering how ...
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🎵 Why are musicians leaving Spotify?
Streaming transformed the industry, but concerns over fair compensation and creative control are driving change. Could this shift redefine how we access and value music?
Dr Andrew White @apw1970.bsky.social explains for @theconversation.com ⤵️
Streaming transformed the industry, but concerns over fair compensation and creative control are driving change. Could this shift redefine how we access and value music?
Dr Andrew White @apw1970.bsky.social explains for @theconversation.com ⤵️
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"UBI-related experiments consistently find evidence that no participant responds to UBI experiments by dropping out of the labor force. Yes, some people reduce their hours of work, but the decline in work effort (if any) is clearly within a sustainable range."
A nice piece. Basic income is good because people won’t have as many problems. We are wrong to worry about people working less or more.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fatal-tr...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fatal-tr...
The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into
To win the argument for universal basic income, advocates must confront the myth that less work means less worth.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"UBI-related experiments consistently find evidence that no participant responds to UBI experiments by dropping out of the labor force. Yes, some people reduce their hours of work, but the decline in work effort (if any) is clearly within a sustainable range."
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The exodus reflects a general concern that major tech companies are too cosy with the Trump administration.
Why musicians are leaving Spotify – and what it means for the music you love
The exodus reflects a general concern that major tech companies are too cosy with the Trump administration.
tcnv.link
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The exodus reflects a general concern that major tech companies are too cosy with the Trump administration.
Why musicians are leaving Spotify – and what it means for the music you love
theconversation.com/why-musician...
theconversation.com/why-musician...
Why musicians are leaving Spotify – and what it means for the music you love
The exodus reflects a general concern that major tech companies are too cosy with the Trump administration.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Why musicians are leaving Spotify – and what it means for the music you love
theconversation.com/why-musician...
theconversation.com/why-musician...
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On this day in 1964..
David Bowie's "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men with Long Hair"
David Bowie's "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men with Long Hair"
David Bowie’s “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men with Long Hair” (1964)
17 year old David Jones (Bowie) was interviewed on BBC Tonight programme by Cliff Michelmore as the founder of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men! The interview, by…
www.davidbowienews.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
On this day in 1964..
David Bowie's "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men with Long Hair"
David Bowie's "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men with Long Hair"
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Three points I keep repeating
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Three points I keep repeating
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
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I am looking forward to participating in this event.
Belfast Media Panel - Future in Frame - Public Service Media in a shared island www.belfastmediafestival.co.uk/schedules/fu... #belfastmediafestival
Belfast Media Panel - Future in Frame - Public Service Media in a shared island www.belfastmediafestival.co.uk/schedules/fu... #belfastmediafestival
Future in Frame - Public Service Media in a Shared Island - Belfast Media Festival
www.belfastmediafestival.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I am looking forward to participating in this event.
Belfast Media Panel - Future in Frame - Public Service Media in a shared island www.belfastmediafestival.co.uk/schedules/fu... #belfastmediafestival
Belfast Media Panel - Future in Frame - Public Service Media in a shared island www.belfastmediafestival.co.uk/schedules/fu... #belfastmediafestival
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A new class action lawsuit against Spotify alleges the company has “turned a blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming” on its platform and that one musician in particular has been the beneficiary of “billions” of fake streams: Drake.
Lawsuit Against Spotify Claims 'Billions' of Drake Streams Were 'Fraudulent'
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A new class action lawsuit against Spotify alleges the company has “turned a blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming” on its platform and that one musician in particular has been the beneficiary of “billions” of fake streams: Drake.