Latest posts tagged with #DigitalLabour on Bluesky
DeepLab PhD researcher Wagner Guilherme Alves da Silva recently presented his research at the University of Oxford, exploring Instagram, aspiration, and platform labour among personal cleaners in Brazil and the Philippines.
@erc.europa.eu @ucddublin.bsky.social
#DeepLab #DigitalLabour
Modern digital platforms mirror old hierarchies: replaceable users generate value while control and ownership remain out of reach.
By Akif Ali Hayat
Read more: thefridaytimes.com/03-Feb-2026/...
#digitallabour #SocialMedia #inequality #attention #economy #algorithmic #online #surveillance
Social media extracts attention like labour, turning endless scrolling into unpaid work under constant algorithmic surveillance.
By Akif Ali Hayat
Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/03-Feb-2026/...
#digitallabour #SocialMedia #inequality #attention #economy #algorithmic #online #surveillance
💭Stephanie Grasser (JUKUS) explores the ILO’s Global Policy Tracker, and why legislation alone doesn’t show whether workers are truly protected.
👉www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activ...
#PlatformWork #DigitalLabour #FutureOfWork #WorkerProtection
Gig workers may appear “independent,” but algorithmic management dictates every aspect of their work. Autonomy is an illusion—dependency is engineered.
#GigEconomy #AlgorithmicControl #DigitalLabour
stratheia.com/book-review-...
#citizenscience reading club
What if citizen science isn’t always democratic?
Riley & Mason-Wilkes reveal “dark citizen science” — hidden, unpaid digital labour like Google’s reCAPTCHA.
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
#Ethics #AI #DigitalLabour
This chapter, #Unionisation and #DigitalLabour, will be published in 2026 in the ‘Sage Handbook of Digital Labour’. @etui.bsky.social
It argues that #platformunionism has not yet crystallised into a dominant associational form
#PlatformEconomy #LabourStudies #FutureOfWork
Indonesia Fairwork report launches 25 Sept!
We’ll dive into what platform workers are facing and what decent work should look like.
Save the date
#Indonesia #Fairwork #GigWork #DigitalLabour
Back at the start. European Sociological Association's mid-term conference, research network 18. #Media #Communication #DigitalLabour I present on Academia as a public sphere. Hoping to get collective writing on a manifest going #AcademicSky #AcademicFreedom rn18esa.wordpress.com/conference-a...
Fairwork’s Tobias Kuttler joined cnbcafrica to unpack findings from our South Africa report—spotlighting fairness (or the lack of it) in the gig economy.
Watch here: www.cnbcafrica.com/media/gdPxmr...
#Fairwork #GigWork #DigitalLabour #SouthAfrica
Fairwork’s Mark Graham speaks to Globalnyt about the invisible labour powering today’s AI systems—and why tech firms must do better.
Read (in Danish): globalnyt.dk/professor-ka...
#AI #GigWork #Fairwork #DigitalLabour
Have you read our US report?
Fairwork scored 11 major platforms on worker fairness. Not one passed the halfway mark.
fair.work/en/fw/public...
#Fairwork #GigWork #DigitalLabour #US #WorkerRights
OnlyFans ist kein Selfie-Spielplatz, sondern ein knallhartes Business.
Eine neue Studie zeigt: Der Großteil der Einnahmen kommt aus Chats, nicht aus Bildern.
👉 german-adult-news.com/news/onlyfan...
#DigitalLabour #OnlyFans #DigitalEntrepreneur #CreatorWork
The postdoctoral researcher will join the Worker Experiences in the Age of Generative AI: A Study of Cognitive Labour in Canada project.
Deadline: 5:00 p.m. EST, August 5th
Please share!
working.ubishops.ca/job/postdoct...
#Postdoc #AIandWork #DigitalLabour #SSHRC #FRQ #GenerativeAI
Fairwork is featured in the UN’s latest report on AI and human rights!
Our research highlights how AI supply chains affect vulnerable workers—and why fair AI must start with fair work.
Read the report: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
#Fairwork #AI #HumanRights #PlatformWork #DigitalLabour #UN
Now it's all official, I can let people know that I have been awarded an #ERCAdG ERC Advanced Grant for my LivePlatforms project to critically examine the actors involved in determining how - or whether - people make livelihoods in the platform economy.
#PlatformWork #DigitalLabour
Read the full paper here: www.tinyurl.com/disinformationthinkpiece
@fesonline.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @manchester.ac.uk
#Disinformation
#FeministResearch #PolicyReform #DigitalLabour
#GenderJustice #GlobalSouthVoices #TechandSociety#MediaLiteracy
Up to 435M people work on cloud platforms without basic labour protections.
This month, the ILO considers a global convention on platform work.
Fairwork’s new report shows why that matters.
Read the Cloudwork Ratings 2025:
fair.work/en/fw/public...
#Cloudwork #DigitalLabour #ILO2024 #Fairwork
🎤 Hear directly from data workers
⚖️ See what justice could look like
🗣️ Speakers include Luc Triangle (ITUC), Mustafa_Qadri (Equidem) — more to be announced
#DigitalLabour #HumanRights #Webinar #AI #ILC2025 #PlatformWork #LabourRights
A new study posits that AI systems, capable of scaling, learning, and producing economic value, should be recognised as a distinct factor of production - “digital labour.”
Find out what it means here ⬇️
www.digit.fyi/ai-digital-l...
#tech #digitallabour #AILabour
📄 Read the paper: itforchange.net/unbearable-l...
#GigEconomy #PlatformCapitalism #DigitalLabour #ReproductiveLabour #DataExtraction #FeministEconomics
“The CLT worker can’t catch a break!”
New DeepLab takeaway unpacks memes, labour precarity & the digital hustle dream. Read here labdeep.com/takeaways/
Image source - © Brenda Rocha Blossom via Canva.com #DigitalLabour #CLT #DeepLab @erc.europa.eu @ucddublin.bsky.social @jessicamatheus.bsky.social
“I’d love a union.”
“They don’t care about us—just profit.”
“You just hope someone logs on and pays.”
We’re launching our new report on online sex work May 15, 2PM BST.
Join us: wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #SexWorkIsWork #WorkerRights #DigitalLabour
We’ve just dropped the speaker list for our upcoming launch of Platform Sex Work.
These voices are pushing for justice in digital labour—don’t miss the conversation.
📅 15 May
🔗 Register here: wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SexWorkIsWork #PlatformSexWork #FairWork #DigitalLabour
In our latest article, Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan reveals how AI systems are built on the hidden labor of African data workers who endure trauma and exploitation—while Big Tech profits and looks away.
#DigitalLabour #AIExploitation #ContentModeration #PlatformWork #ResponsibleAI #GhostWorkers
📢 On May 20 at 2PM BST, @towardsfairwork.bsky.social will launch the Cloudwork Ratings 2025 — a new report assessing fairness across 16 digital labour platforms.
🔗 Register for the launch event: wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #DigitalLabour #PlatformWork #AIWorkforce #OIIEvents
Say hi to Shilpa
She’s joining the Fairwork team to support interviews, research, data, and project work. We’re so excited to have her with us!
#Fairwork #WelcomeShilpa #DigitalLabour
Fairwork is inviting tenders for a Fundraising Consultant to support the financial sustainability of our global research network.
Deadline: 12 May 2025
Details: fair.work/wp-admin/pos...
#Fairwork #Fundraising #Consultancy #DigitalLabour #SocialImpact
Excited to welcome Simone Kadurira as Fairwork’s new Comms Manager!
She’s bringing deep experience in feminist comms + global advocacy—and big energy to our work.
Meet her in this short video and hear what she’s excited to build with us.
#Fairwork #WorkerRights #DigitalLabour #WelcomeSimone
OnlineFirst - "Pressure and praise as an action research methodology: The case of Fairwork" by Mark Graham, Oğuz Alyanak, Alessio Bertolini, Patrick Feuerstein, Tobias Kuttler, Funda Ustek Spilda, and Jonas Valente:
#platformwork #platformeconomy #digitallabour
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