A5082877180- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Economic Development and Digital Transformation
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Data & Society Research Institute
2014-2025
Intel (United States)
2022
University of San Francisco
2014-2022
New York University
2015-2017
This article introduces the topic of radical care by providing a genealogy as vital but underexamined praxis politics that provides spaces hope in precarious times. Following recent theoretical interventions into importance self-care despite its susceptibility to neoliberal co-optation, potentialities may be expanded outward include other forms push back against structural disadvantage. Care contains promise through grounding autonomous direct action and nonhierarchical collective work....
This forum focuses on the conditions and futures of labor underpinning technology production maintenance. We welcome standalone articles as well interviews conversations about all tech within global supply chain digital technologies. --- Seyram Avle Sarah Fox, Editors
Employers have long devised techniques and used new technologies to surveil employees in order increase efficiency, decrease theft, otherwise assert power control over subordinates. New cheaper networked make surveillance easier implement, but what are the ramifications of widespread workplace surveillance?
This essay responds to the call for exploring wider societal risks and impacts of generative AI, particularly its environmental costs. Through a review available evidence on LLM's carbon water costs, we point out that AI technologies are distinctly resource intensive. We argue field must re-frame scope machine learning research development include other considerations across lifecycle supply chain, rather than setting these aside or allowing them remain field's margins.
Unionization emerged as a way of protecting labor rights when society shifted from an agricultural ecosystem to one shaped by manufacturing and industrial labor. New networked work complicates the organizing mechanisms that are inherent unionization. How then do we protect laborers abuse, poor conditions, discrimination?
Vintage goods are valued for their nostalgic association with pre-digital modes of production, but contemporary trafficking is increasingly organized by processes platformization. The central component what we call “listing labor in the digital vintage economy” online display collectible merchandise, listing also entails promoting sellers’ brands on social media and using sales platforms other logistical to manage inventory, process transactions, handle shipments. Listing performed branded...
Research involving Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube, MySpace, and other online social media sites crosses disciplines, methods, topics, theories. Within this research, a growing nu...
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This article focuses on the role of circulated affect in crowdfunded funeral campaigns, which have attracted little scholarly attention so far. study is based content analysis online campaigns ( N = 50) and qualitative interviews 10) with campaign supporters initiators. Its aim to connect larger digital-sharing economy. The findings suggest that order gather sufficient funds cover costs, individuals share emotionally evocative narratives images their social networks an imagined Internet...
Accountability is fundamentally about checks and balances to power. In theory, both government corporations are kept accountable through social, economic, political mechanisms. Journalism public advocates serve as an additional tool hold powerful institutions individuals accountable. But in a world of data algorithms, accountability often murky. Beyond questions whether the market sufficient or governmental regulation necessary, how should algorithms be held accountable? For example what...
This article examines the labor involved with upkeep of social media accounts for Oakland-based brick-and-mortar boutiques and their digital storefronts, particularly as businesses move wares online during shelter-in-place amid ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on independent shops in Oakland, California, those which are part Oakland’s Indie Alliance – a coalition small business owners this explores role shop workers producing authentic aesthetics themselves store replacement shops. How do...
Keywords authenticity, craft and DIY cultures, e-commerce, entrepreneurialism, gender, nostalgia, platforms, retail, social media
This article outlines the emergence of digital estate planning, a new way managing post-mortem data, considering its cultural history and political stakes. I argue that Web 2.0 logics interaction inclusivity, subsequent valorization social have led to form accumulation. Unlike planners, who are legal professionals paid manage finances wealthy clientele, planners start-up company founders handle possessions masses. Because planning companies not lucrative, often providing free services, they...
This introduction provides an overview of the themes this Special Section on Illness Narratives, Networked Subjects, and Intimate Publics. Drawing intersection illness narratives human-technological assemblages, frames section’s consideration how illness, disability, dying, death are mediated within emerging digital spaces.
Internet-enabled technologies allow people to connect in unprecedented ways. Although everyday social practices are widespread and well known, these same tools reconfiguring key aspects of work. Crowdsourcing distributed labor increasingly companies outsource everything from mundane tasks (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk) professional services oDesk). Sharing economy – or peer Airbnb) barter goods get paid for exchanges outside the dominant business framework. These have enabled new forms...
Countless highly accurate predictions can be made from trace data, with varying degrees of personal or societal consequence (e.g., search engines predict hospital admission, gaming companies compulsive gambling problems, government agencies criminal activity). Predicting human behavior both hugely beneficial and deeply problematic depending on the context. What kinds predictive privacy harms are emerging? And what implications for systems oversight due process protections? For example,...
This panel reflects on the conditions of collaboration as well possibilities solidarity between academic and tech workers by drawing experiences panelists who have pondered questions ethics, responsibility values in technology-building from a range positionalities within, adjacent to outside technology organizations. As proposal outlines, will think through opportunities risks for work towards progressive futures together but also differences impossibilities that arise with each position.
From 3D printing to maker culture, there’s a rise of technical practices that resist large industrial and corporate modes production, similar what is occurring in artisanal food agriculture. While DIY are not new, the widespread availability cheap cost such tools has potential disrupt certain aspects manufacturing. How do we better understand unfolding?
Despite growing demand for participatory approaches AI development, there are challenges of ensuring ethical and inclusive stakeholder engagement preventing "participant-washing" perpetuating harm to marginalized communities. To help support AI-developing teams practitioners more ethically responsibly work with communities the public, Partnership on AI's Global Task Force Inclusive proposed specific guidance resources. This one-day workshop brings together researchers co-create...
Science fiction has long imagined a workforce reshaped by robots, but the increasingly common instantiation of intelligent systems in business is much more mundane. Beyond utopian and dystopian hype increased efficiencies job displacement, how do we understand what disruptions will have on workforce?
Accountability is fundamentally about checks and balances to power. In theory, both government corporations are kept accountable through social, economic, political mechanisms. Journalism public advocates serve as an additional tool hold powerful institutions individuals accountable. But in a world of data algorithms, accountability often murky. Beyond questions whether the market sufficient or governmental regulation necessary, how should algorithms be held accountable? For example what...