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Digitalisation and self-perpetuation 数字化和自我延续
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0007
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Governed by digital technology? 由数字技术统治?
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0012
Konstantin Klur, Sarah Nies
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Tika technology
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0153
Luke Munn
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Artificial intelligence in the practice of work 人工智能在工作中的实践
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0034
M. Heinlein, N. Huchler
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The self-perpetuation of the promise of care robots 看护机器人的自我延续
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0117
Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Kevin Wiggert, Martin Meister, Tim Clausnitzer
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In control or out of control? 在控制中还是失控?
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0136
Mona-Maria Bardmann, Caroline Ruiner, Laura Künzel, M. Klumpp
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Datafication and algorithmic contingency – how agile organisations deal with technical systems 数据化和算法偶然性——敏捷组织如何处理技术系统
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0061
Lene Baumgart, Pauline Boos, Bernd Eckstein
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(Shared) ethnicity in ethnographic research on clandestine and informal practices in the migrant and ethnic minority economy 在移民和少数民族经济中的秘密和非正式做法的人种学研究中(共享)种族
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.16.1.0088
Jing Hiah
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Is anonymity dead? 匿名已经死了吗?
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.16.1.0072
Funda Ustek Spilda, Kelle Howson, H. Johnston, Alessio Bertolini, P. Feuerstein, L. Bezuidenhout, O. Alyanak, Mark Graham
{"title":"Is anonymity dead?","authors":"Funda Ustek Spilda, Kelle Howson, H. Johnston, Alessio Bertolini, P. Feuerstein, L. Bezuidenhout, O. Alyanak, Mark Graham","doi":"10.13169/workorgalaboglob.16.1.0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.16.1.0072","url":null,"abstract":"Critical research into the gig economy frequently relies on using platform interfaces, platform mobile applications or websites, as intermediaries to contact and recruit participants. Yet, these methods are accompanied by significant ethical implications that are rarely considered. In this article, we look at the organisational features of platform interfaces for research and explore the ways in which, through their intensive knowledge about their users, they present additional challenges to researchers’ abilities to (a) conduct independent research – for example by influencing the participant recruitment process and (b) establish and maintain respondent anonymity and researcher transparency. Our analysis is based on an international study of platform workers which investigates working conditions and fairness in the gig economy in both geographically tethered gig work and cloudwork. We argue that the ethical boundaries of doing research through platform interfaces are shaped not only by researchers, but also by the platforms whose interfaces researchers use. Establishing and protecting the anonymity of research participants provides an acute example of this, as platforms have the potential to scrutinise the activities of researchers on their interfaces, and capture information shared between researchers and participants. The question of anonymity arises also in the reverse order: when platforms share personal information on workers, at a level not required by researchers. After building our argument, we propose a set of suggestions for promoting ethical research in the study of gig economy platforms.","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86368367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Assessing bias in online surveys using alternative survey modes 使用替代调查模式评估在线调查的偏差
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.16.1.0034
Neil H. Spencer, D. Syrdal, Matthew Coates, U. Huws
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引用次数: 3
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