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Gender and Anticipatory Labour in the Gig Economy: How Employability Is Unequally Performed by Women and Men on Project‐Based Platforms

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Work mediated by digital labour platforms is often framed as flexible and autonomous, yet accessing paid tasks commonly requires extensive unpaid effort. Drawing on 65 qualitative interviews with Australian workers on project‐based platforms (including Airtasker, Fiverr and Freelancer), we develop the concept of anticipatory labour: the unpaid,
Brendan Churchill, Kate Dangar, Asangi Mira Gunawansa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

DIGITAL CAPITALISM AND DIGITAL PUBLIC GOODS

Economics and Innovation Management, 2022
openaire   +1 more source

Market orientation and national homicide rates

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We studied the influence of market orientation on national homicide rates. Multiple theoretical traditions equate the development and dominance of markets with higher crime rates. Some traditional sociological theoretical claims, however, suggest market expansion should reduce violence.
William Alex Pridemore, Meghan L. Rogers
wiley   +1 more source

Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America. [PDF]

Soc Stud Sci
Ak O.
europepmc   +1 more source

Studying Tech Diplomacy—Introduction to the Special Issue on Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on tech diplomacy, exploring its emergence and evolution as a distinct approach to global affairs in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Originating with Denmark's 2017 “TechPlomacy” initiative, tech diplomacy has gained global momentum, with over two dozen countries adopting
Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source

At the Crossroads of Data Justice and Data Capitalism: How Generative AI in Healthcare Mobilises Its Assemblages. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
Gross N, Geiger S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
wiley   +1 more source

Platform gentrification: The production of urban inequalities in the on-demand city. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Sequera J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Malaysia's Ambivalent Middle Power Status: A Global South Perspective From a Reconceptualised Geoeconomics

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds a geoeconomics dimension to the geopolitics‐focused middle power literature that generally depicts Malaysia as an ambivalent middle power, especially from the identity and behavioral perspectives, even if the country's middle power status stands on stronger capability indicators.
Helen E. S. Nesadurai
wiley   +1 more source

Platform power, athlete branding, generative AI, and the future of sport governance-a systematic review. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Westerbeek H, van Schaik T.
europepmc   +1 more source