Producing Value From Injury: Dashcam Platforms, Accidents, and Gig Work

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI:10.1177/20563051251329083

Renyi Hong, Kuansong Victor Zhuang

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Abstract

This article uses the dashboard camera (commonly, dashcam) to consider platformed logics of injury. Installed in cars, dashcams are often purposed to arbitrate accidents. In Singapore, however, dashcams have fostered huge communities on social media, who regularly post and comment on dashcam footage. Furthermore, due to the nature of their work, food delivery riders also constitute common subjects of these footages. The article explores these relationships by revealing, first, how dashcams have historically coupled exploitation and justice. It has relied on the broken bodies of platform workers for consumer interest, but attached with the promise that the technology can also address the structural injustice of platformed work. This capitalization of injury continues into the present, with dashcams also serving as the key site for the visibility of structural injury among food delivery riders.

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从伤害中创造价值：行车记录仪平台、事故和零工工作

本文使用仪表盘摄像头（通常称为dashcam）来考虑伤害的平台逻辑。安装在汽车上的仪表盘摄像头通常是用来仲裁事故的。然而，在新加坡，行车记录仪在社交媒体上形成了庞大的社区，人们定期发布行车记录仪拍摄的视频并发表评论。此外，由于他们的工作性质，外卖骑手也构成了这些镜头的共同主题。本文首先揭示了行车记录仪在历史上是如何将剥削与正义结合在一起的，从而探讨了这些关系。它依靠平台工人破碎的身体来满足消费者的利益，但同时也承诺该技术也可以解决平台工作的结构性不公正问题。这种伤害的资本化一直持续到现在，行车记录仪也成为了观察送餐员结构损伤的关键地点。

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.