ARTEFACTS

Research made tangible.

A lab is defined by what it produces.Digital Crossroads turns inquiry into books, research papers, essays, frameworks, tools, prototypes, and working code. These artefacts examine Datalism and the changing logic of the data economy across institutions, markets, communities, and the environment.

Where possible, we publish openly so that others can test, challenge, adapt, and build on our work. This collection will grow with the lab.

Books

Digital Sustainability

Written by Catherine Mulligan and Shivam Kishore, Digital Sustainability examines how digital transformation can strengthen organisational resilience and create lasting value. It offers practical approaches to governing AI and emerging technologies in ways that serve people, institutions, and the planet.
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The Rise of Datalism

Co-authored by Catherine Mulligan and Phil Godsiff, The Rise of Datalism explores how data is reshaping capitalism, concentrating power and changing how value is created. It examines the impact on business, society, democracy and geopolitics, while asking how a fairer digital future can be built.

Publication: March 2027
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Research

Formal research and working papers examining the economic, institutional, and social logic of Datalism. This work develops the concepts and evidence behind the lab’s wider research agenda.

The Value Dynamics of Data Assets: From Production to Coordination

Data does not behave like a conventional asset. This paper examines how data can appreciate through use, combination, and accumulation, and how organisations turn those dynamics into new forms of coordination, learning, and market power.

Type: Academic working paper (pre-print)
Authors: Catherine E.A. Mulligan and Phil Godsiff
Published: Published SSRN, July 2026

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Datalism and Data Monopolies in the Era of AI: A Research Agenda

This paper examines the rise of data monopolies and organisations that build power through control of data rather than conventional productive assets. It considers how these organisations challenge existing theories of monopoly, labour, and economic value.
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Type: Academic working paper (pre-print)
Authors: Catherine E.A. Mulligan and Phil Godsiff
Published: Published arXic, July 2023

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Essays and Analysis

The Datalism Substack is where Digital Crossroads develops ideas in public. It offers essays, emerging arguments, and ongoing analysis of the forces shaping the data economy.Follow the lab’s thinking, challenge the arguments, and join the wider conversation.

Type: Essays and Blogs
‍Authors: Datalism

Code and Prototypes

This is where Digital Crossroads publishes code, technical architectures, and working prototypes developed through the lab.

Where possible, this work is made reusable and open to scrutiny, adaptation, and contribution.

Type: Code repository
‍Authors: Datalism

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