| About Me | http://www.danielsusser.info |
call for proposals for special issue on "Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production" in International Journal of Cultural Studies. Abstracts due 6th Nov.
#cfp #platformstudies #platforms #newmedia #mediastudies #internetstudies #digitalculture
This is excellent news. Workplace surveillance is rolling out in a big way under the guise of "efficiency" and "improving productivity" but is used to intimidate and harass workers.
The U.S. National Labor Relations Board's top lawyer said on Monday that she will seek to limit employers' use of "intrusive" electronic monitoring using tools such as GPS and webcams because of its potential to discourage workers from unionizing.
How do #groups work and how can we use them efficiently? @[email protected] and @[email protected] are groups that I created to discuss sociology and academic working conditions. In general, groups function like bots that boost every post containing their handle. If you follow the group-account, you will see the posts in your timeline. In order to keep the TL as relevant as possible, I have a couple of small suggestions. #relevancy 1/3
[New 📝] Focus so far on the EU’s proposed Platform Work Directive has mostly been on employees misclassified as self-employed, yet the draft contains powerful, broadly well-drafted protections on #algorithmicmanagement — new digital labour rights for individuals & collectives!
These will be be fought hard against by big platforms.
In our new pre-print, @RDBinns, Six Silberman + I analyse and propose specific tweaks to safeguard digital #workersrights.
📄: https://doi.org/jjr2 [🧵/n]
If everyone using this server supported mastodon at $1/month, @Gargron (mastodon founder) would have some room to breathe / hire helpers / scale up to support the #twittermigration. We just joined up. Who else is in?
jonathan w. y. gray 🐨
Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Michael Veale
Seth Lazar
NancyGPT
jamie hill🏴☠️
Eugen Rochko