This paper aims to uncover the logic governing members' engagement in WeChat-based
support communities (WBSCs) influenced by the affordances of WeChat groups. From a …

Distinctive features of the on‐demand work platforms made it theoretically improbable for
workers to organize and for collective forms of protest to emerge. Their business model and …

This article introduces the special issue,'Social Media and Platform Work: Stories, Practices,
and Workers' Organisation'. In recent years, platform labour studies have increasingly …

The new technologies of generative AI present important ethical challenges for application
design in relation to human work and future workplaces. Using an extended design fiction …

Drone-based transportation is emerging as a novel mode in city logistics, featuring first-mile
pickup and last-mile instant delivery using drones and truck transshipment. A fundamental …

The rapid growth of online food delivery services has been driven by changing economic
landscapes and lifestyles, further accelerated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in an …

Lernende Algorithmen gelten aufgrund ihrer irreduziblen Opazität als eigenständige
Akteure/Performanzen, die bestehende soziale Gefälle digital amplifizieren, neue Barrieren …

En el contexto de las ciencias de la sostenibilidad, la reconversión de infraestructuras
obsoletas en espacios urbanos sostenibles emerge como una herramienta para fomentar la …

In France, earnings from delivery workers involved in on-demand instant delivery are not
well known. Using data from two waves of a survey made in Paris with on-demand instant …

The current study examined media affordances of TikTok and YouTube, tested
measurement fit of the affordance scale (Rice et al., 2017), and compared 11 dimensions …