What do platforms do? Understanding the gig economy

S Vallas, JB Schor - Annual review of sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its
consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the …

Data and its (dis) contents: A survey of dataset development and use in machine learning research

A Paullada, ID Raji, EM Bender, E Denton, A Hanna - Patterns, 2021 - cell.com
In this work, we survey a breadth of literature that has revealed the limitations of
predominant practices for dataset collection and use in the field of machine learning. We …

[PDF][PDF] The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

K Crawford - 2021 - static10.labirint.ru
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and
freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the …

“Collaborating” with AI: Taking a system view to explore the future of work

C Anthony, BA Bechky, AL Fayard - Organization Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
In the wake of media hype about artificial intelligence (AI)/human collaboration,
organizations are investing considerable resources into develo** and using AI. In this …

Algorithms at work: The new contested terrain of control

KC Kellogg, MA Valentine… - Academy of management …, 2020 - journals.aom.org
The widespread implementation of algorithmic technologies in organizations prompts
questions about how algorithms may reshape organizational control. We use perspective of …

Expanding the locus of resistance: Understanding the co-constitution of control and resistance in the gig economy

LD Cameron, H Rahman - Organization Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Existing literature examines control and resistance in the context of service organizations
that rely on both managers and customers to control workers during the execution of work …

Labour process theory and the gig economy

A Gandini - Human relations, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
What are the distinctive traits that characterize work (ing) through (and for) a digital platform?
In the burgeoning debate on the 'gig economy', a critical examination that comprehensively …

The ethnographer and the algorithm: beyond the black box

A Christin - Theory and Society, 2020 - Springer
A common theme in social science studies of algorithms is that they are profoundly opaque
and function as “black boxes.” Scholars have developed several methodological …

Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods

M Graham, I Hjorth… - Transfer: European review …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
As ever more policy-makers, governments and organisations turn to the gig economy and
digital labour as an economic development strategy to bring jobs to places that need them, it …

Platform labor: on the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-income service work in the 'on-demand'economy

N Van Doorn - Information, communication & society, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
How does one value something one cannot and often does not want to see? How do
contemporary digital platforms and their infrastructures of connectivity, evaluation, and …