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I’m a freelance journalist with 4+ years of experience, reporting on social media and online harms, global inequality and grassroots social movements. I was formerly Dazed’s political book columnist. To commission me or collaborate on media, please get in touch: adelewalton99@gmail.com
The i paper
I blocked my social media apps from 9-5 - I wrote a book in the time I got back
We are scrolling towards a climate crisis (Also in print)
‘My boss is spying on me’: The rise in companies recording employees’ every move (Also in print)
How TikTok and Instagram made reading books an unnecessarily competitive sport
Big Issue
‘We get sick, Meta get rich’: Why the ‘guinea pig generation’ wants Labour to tax social media giants (interview)
Campaigners vow to ‘keep fighting’ for young people as Online Safety Act ‘fails to go far enough’ (interview)
100 students die by suicide at university each year. These parents are fighting to change that
DWP’s automation of universal credit discriminates against single mums, researchers say
The Post Office Scandal proves why workers’ needs must be put ahead of AI and technology
How communities are tackling the digital divide
From online deals to job searches: how digital exclusion makes the cost of living even higher
Teenagers are having to provide for their families as the cost of living crisis hits
Computer Weekly
EU law could usher in transformative change to digital ecosystems
Schools go smartphone-free to address online harms
Kenyan workers win High Court case to take Meta to trial
Creative workers say livelihoods threatened by generative AI
Dazed
How to stop social media ruining your self esteem
Green is the new Red: why young people are turning to the Green Party
How sex workers are fighting the cost of living crisis
Inside the growing demand for permanent make-up removal
Q&A with Vicky Spratt, Journalist and Author of Tenants
The Guardian
i-D
10 books to read when you’re considering logging off
Metro
I thought I’d get the job. Then I found out my interviewer was an AI chatbot
Befriending an older person taught me the meaning of digital exclusion
I thought nothing would help my anxiety - until I discovered DJing
The Independent
Lockdown has helped me find a way to deal with my body dysmorphia
I thought I had a healthy approach to influencing - until now
Dazed - Book Column 2023-2024
All the books you should read in 2023
10 books about love to read this Valentine’s Day
The fight for trans rights is an anti-patriarchal fight - Angela Saini
We should be critical about the dreams that are sold to us - Kieran Yates
‘We really need to revolt’: inside Britain’s hidden care crisis - Emily Kenway
This new book examines whether capitalism really is driving us all mad - Micha Frazer-Caroll
The harrowing reality of life in solitary confinement - Damascus James
Naomi Klein on why everything feels so uncanny right now - Naomi Klein
Beauty culture is a reflection of our political culture - Emma Dabiri
How eyeliner become a symbol of political resistance - Zahra Hankir
How does misogyny differ for trans women? - Jules Gill-Peterson
Unshrinking: how to detox from fatphobia - Kate Manne
"I feel like I’ve become the people’s MP” - Kwajo Tweneboa
Mashable
The women fighting to make women and girls safe in the digital age
New Internationalist
Social media users are bypassing censorship on Palestine
How sex workers are fighting for their digital safety (in print)
The Lead
Overheard in school toilets: the dangerous rise of surveillance in UK classrooms
Closing train ticket offices: a new disability barrier
shado mag
The cloud is filled with carbon
The rise of little brother in the digital age
Cashing in on body image: how body dysmorphia is a capitalist issue
The New Arab
Beyond shadowbanning: Facebook posts can’t liberate Palestine
If journalist's aren’t protected, free speech means nothing
70 years on Mau Mau history reminds us of the British monarchy's violence
Women are absorbing the costs of food inflation worldwide
It’s time to ditch the developed versus developing dichotomy
The Face
Gen Z are side-hustling their way out of the cost-of-living crisis
The Strike Diaries: a week in the life of a trainee teacher
The Strike Diaries: a week in the life of an NHS nurse
The Strike Diaries: a week in the life of a train cleaner
The Strike Diaries: a week in the life of a junior doctor
The Strike Diaries: Why Croydon’s homelessness department went on strike
The Strike Diaries: Why university staff are still on strike
Huck
Amazon’s surveillance culture is ‘breaking’ it’s workers
How Gypsies were left behind amid the pandemic
The Wages for Housework Campaign is still vital
Author Q&A: Reclaiming the anti-racist movement from capitalism
Refinery 29
Grieving on Social Media Made Me Lonelier Than Ever
Wellcome Collection
Life lessons across the digital divide
Hyphen
My family’s olive groves are a legacy passed down through generations
Polyester Zine
The Post-Scroll Guilt Phenomenon: Being Conscious of Absent Minded Consumption
Naked Politics
I grew up on Meta’s platforms, here’s why I’m protesting them for Children’s Mental Health Week
Want to learn what it takes to be an activist? AWETHU are teaching young people just that
gal-dem
How to fight gentrification in the ends? Privatise the Mandem & the short film based on my article
12 riotous books that radicalised me in 2021
Off-Chance
Summer reading: 10 unmissable books by women authors
10 strong female leads that aren’t girlbosses
MediaCat Magazine
The tech businesses remaking our digital world
openDemocracy
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t cause the food crisis. Capitalism did.
Vice
Gambling and the Cost of Living Crisis: A Perfect Storm in the Making
Jacobin
The Revolutionary Feminism of Thomas Sankara
mixmag
Spiritual storytelling: Charisse C’s fluid amapiano sets are building a bridge between continents
Novara Media
This Year’s the World Transformed Is the Perfect Opportunity for the Left to Rebuild Itself
Progressive International (Translated works in German, Turkish, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese)
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t cause the food crisis. Capitalism did.
Tidningen Global (Translated works in Swedish)
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t cause the food crisis. Capitalism did.
Jacobin Brasil (Translated works in Portuguese)
Vaccine Holidays Are a Symbol of the New Covid Inequality
Verso
Debt Justice
Tribune
After Covid, Sankara’s Lessons on Debt Are as Relevant as Ever
How Structural Adjustment Paved the Way for the Covid Crisis
How Britain’s Universities Are Complicit in Israel’s Occupation
Vaccine Holidays Are a Symbol of the New Covid Inequality
Capitalism Won’t Give Us the Development We Need