The Platformization of Labor and Society

Casilli, Antonio A.; Posada, Julian

doi:10.1093/oso/9780198843498.003.0018

Cited by 111 publications

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“…It favors certain companies, their shareholders and executives, while compounding conditions of social dependency and economic precarity for most other people. Finally, with its content sanitized by underground armies of ghost workers (Gray and Suri 2019 ), it is artificial in both a technical and literal sense—“artificially artificial,” in the words of Jeff Bezos (Casilli and Posada 2019 ).…”

Section: Sociality and Change In The Age Of Machine Learningmentioning

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Loops, ladders and links: the recursivity of social and machine learning

Fourcade

Johns

2020

Theor Soc

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Machine learning algorithms reshape how people communicate, exchange, and associate; how institutions sort them and slot them into social positions; and how they experience life, down to the most ordinary and intimate aspects. In this article, we draw on examples from the field of social media to review the commonalities, interactions, and contradictions between the dispositions of people and those of machines as they learn from and make sense of each other.

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Section: Sociality and Change In The Age Of Machine Learningmentioning

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Loops, ladders and links: the recursivity of social and machine learning

Fourcade

Johns

2020

Theor Soc

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“…44 Platforms increasingly organise and allocate work in areas such as day care for children, cleaning staff, insurances, or temporary work for companies. 45 Airbnb, Bookings or HomeAway offer easy access to vacation homes or flats that can be lent on a short-term basis. On the one hand, they make travels easier as more complicated communication with all sorts of agencies is now superfluous and one can find all offers in one click.…”

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Between concepts and thought: digital technologies and temporal relationality

Kessler

Lenglet

2020

International Relations

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This article advances the argument that the acceleration of practices introduced by digital technologies also impact key concepts of social theory. Digital technologies not only give rise to new concepts, but they also reconfigure our entire socio-political conceptual vocabulary. In particular, this acceleration reorganises the relationship between the spatial and temporal dimensions of political concepts. As a consequence, our spatially defined understanding of authority, hierarchy or relation underestimates the repercussions of shifting temporalities. This article pursues this shift from space to time and outlines how temporal relationality is gradually impacting the representations and images we live by.

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“…Taking a largely critical position, most of these works express concern about how people engaged in digital labor in the less developed regions of the world have even more precarious experiences. 14…”

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Between “World Class Work” and “Proletarianized Labor”: Digital labor imaginaries in the global South

Soriano¹,

Cabañes²

2019

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This paper attempts to avoid both overly optimistic and pessimistic accounts of the ‘on-demand’ global economy and of ‘platform labor’ in the Global South. It instead considers both how the socio-cultural and economic complexities of the worker environment might drive the attractiveness of this form of labor and how histories of colonialism might make local employment and upward mobility less of a viable option for workers from the Global South. Drawing from in-depth interviews and analysis of multiple texts circulating in online freelance forums, Facebook groups, and ‘freelancer’ events, we look at how freelance workers and platform managers enacted and articulated classed and colonial digital labor imaginaries. We identify three such interconnected imaginaries and label them as follows: that of ‘distinction,’ ‘transcendence,’ and ‘flexibility’. In fleshing out these digital labor imaginaries, we discuss the role of virtual spaces, online communities, and the influencers who help push these imaginaries within the digital platform. And in exploring digital labor in the context of its socio-political and cultural embeddedness, we aim to show how workers constituted a sense of self and agency while being embedded in aspirations that were fraught at best and false at worst.

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The Platformization of Labor and Society

Cited by 111 publications

References 10 publications

Loops, ladders and links: the recursivity of social and machine learning

Loops, ladders and links: the recursivity of social and machine learning

Between concepts and thought: digital technologies and temporal relationality

Between “World Class Work” and “Proletarianized Labor”: Digital labor imaginaries in the global South

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