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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Digital Labor"”.
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China's Community Riders: Digital Labor, Delivery Logistics and Spaces
With the rise of digital platforms, delivery workers using motor scooters (hereafter referred to as “riders”) have gained new prominence through providing essential mobility in urban geographies. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, food delivery riders have become a fixture of China’s streets by …
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Black Influencers: Interrogating the Racialization and Commodification of Digital Labor
… body, neoliberal discourses about individualized digital labor, and the racialization of discourses about Black labor and success, I argue that celebrity status flattens and makes palatable political projects easily consumed by digital audiences. In particular, brands and digital media companies …
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Behind the screen: the hidden digital labor of commercial content moderation
… this research connects the practices of CCM to digital media economics, digital media practices and their sociopolitical, economic and ethical implications. It reports on and describes the experiences of content moderators in a number of different contexts and situations. It provides a taxonomy …
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Assisting Technology: Disability Expertise and Labor in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Work in China
… studies (STS), critical disability studies, and digital labor scholarship. Run by a disabled persons’ organization (DPO), the examined program is staffed with predominantly blind, low vision, and physically impaired data workers, tasked to sort data for an AI-based internet of things (IoT) …
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ONLYFANS AND THE PLATFORMIZATION OF SEX WORK
… ethnography, in-depth interviews with 35 digital sex workers, and qualitative digital methods, OnlyFans is examined as a primary case study to explore how digital platforms are reshaping sexual labor. This research highlights an unprecedented process of sex work mainstreaming, blurring the …
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Living online: an examination of Facebook’s scrapbook and life events features
… main benefits of these features to Facebook: digital labor (content created by users), personal data, personalized advertising strategies and trust. Trust emerged as an important benefit as it builds loyalty, which is crucial to the continued engagement of users. Additionally, this study …
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Body Double: Mythmaking and Identity in a Virtual Countryside
This thesis looks at how the romanticized image of the American countryside has shifted over the last century. By tracing a lineage of mediation through different mediums (print, television, internet), we argue that there has never been a pure rural condition. Currently, the countryside is …
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The digital hand: How digital infrastructures reshape occupational trends, risk, and labor demands among legal commercial sex workers in the U.S.
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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THE DIGITALIZATION OF MUSIC CULTURE: A CASE STUDY EXAMINING THE MUSICIAN/LISTENER RELATIONSHIP WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
… explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing nature of the relationship between artists and audiences new technology has engendered. Through in-depth interviewing, …