Online freelancing platforms, such as Upwork, hold great promise in enabling flexible work opportunities where freelancers can combine their work with other life responsibilities …
NK Chan - Big Data & Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on a qualitative, multi-case study of three kinds of geographically tethered gig work— ride-hailing, delivery, and domestic services platforms—in the United States, I examine how …
This paper aims to understand the practices and meanings associated with the creation and use of private chat groups on instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram …
This paper considers food delivery work as a form of piecework that is conducted via a particular workflow system--the food delivery platform and its delivery app. We offer an …
A Repenning - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The body of literature addressing platform capitalism, platform labour and platform urbanism paints a compelling picture of how digital platforms shape the dynamics of both leisure and …
AI ethics is proposed, by the Big Tech companies which lead AI research and development, as the cure for diverse social problems posed by the commercialization of data-intensive …
S Maalsen, D Rogers… - Environment and Planning …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Housing's value is contested, with discussions including the economic value of housing through literature on assetisation and financialisation, social value in debates about housing …
This article analyses the process of gendering platform co-operativism through a case study of two rider co-operatives owned and managed by women: Señoritas Courier in São Paulo …
R Grohmann, J Corpus Ong - Social Media+ Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This introduction for the special issue “Disinformation-for-Hire as Everyday Digital Labor” carves out a specific area of inquiry within the ever-growing field of disinformation studies …