The gig economy is a phenomenon that is rapidly expanding, redefining the nature of work
and contributing to a significant change in how contemporary economies are organised. Its …

Social life increasingly occurs in digital environments and continues to be mediated by
digital systems. Big data represents the data being generated by the digitization of social life …

Global online platforms match firms with service providers around the world, in services
ranging from software development to copywriting and graphic design. Unlike in traditional …

Digitalisation and the use of algorithms have raised concerns over the future of work, the gig
economy being identified by some as particularly concerning. In this article, we draw on 70 …

In explaining the sources of cooperation and prosocial behavior, psychologists, behavioral
economists, and biologists often focus on factors internal to the individual, such as altruistic …

When one individual helps another, it benefits the recipient and may also gain a reputation
for being cooperative. This may induce others to favour the helper in subsequent …

Highlights•People cooperate more when they can choose partners than when partners are
fixed.•Partner choice creates a 'biological market'for the best partners.•Partners are chosen …

This book offers a toolkit of methods and technologies to undertake qualitative research on
digital spaces. Unlike commonly used traditional methodological strategies, which are …

The emergence of large-scale cooperation in humans poses a major puzzle for the social
and behavioural sciences. Reputation formation—individuals' ability to share information …

Large-scale non-kin cooperation is a unique ingredient of human success. This type of
cooperation is challenging to explain in a world of self-interested individuals. There is …