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26
Mar

Gig Workers Fighting Back

As more people participate in the gig economy, workers are looking to organize so companies are held accountable for the labor market that they’ve helped create. In the San Francisco Chronicle piece on …

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01
Jan

To a New Year, To a New Future

At the start of this new year, we look to those whose research and books help change how people think, plan, and govern in our world today. Happy New Year from the …

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16
Dec

How Silicon Valley Inspired Uberland

“Uber didn’t invent the idea that its technology would be neutral. That comes from a Silicon Valley idea.” —Alex Rosenblat, technology ethnographer and author of Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules …

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27
Oct

Trapped in Uberland

In an interview with CityLab, Alext Rosenblat, technology ethnographer and author of Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, shares her research on how Uber’s “algorithm as a boss” attitude affects …

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27
Aug

Transformations at 4S Conference

This year’s Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (August 29 – September 1 in Sydney, Australia) will focus on transnational collaboration while encouraging intellectual and political engagements and …

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