Hail to the rider, who dutifully takes on the heat
For the companies who hire them, though not with a steady seat
Though the ruling may confuse, for one thing is clear
Their work is recognized, no more a freelancer to steer

#deliveroo #platformeconomy #employment #dutchsupremecourt #ode #poetry

http://thenextweb.com/news/employees-freelancers-deliveroo-supreme-court

I am already excited by the prospect to meet young researchers of Southeast European Studies at a workshop on Science Blogging on 1. April 2023.

#Scienceblogging #OpenScience #OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities #publishing #science #networking #opportunities #socialmedia #platformeconomy #Meinungskapitalismus #Plattformkapitalismus #OpenCode

https://www.neopopulismus.de/index.php/2023/03/25/workshop-on-science-blogging-at-the-southeast-european-studies-student-symposium-1-april-2023/

For subproject C07 on spatial conflicts in the platform economy, #SFB1265 researchers Christina Hecht and Simon Pohl are currently on their first field trip to investigate Airbnb in Cape Town. Many thanks to Prof. Tanja Bosch (University of Cape Town) for the warm welcome!

#airbnb #platformeconomy #capetown #spatialresearch #sociology

🙋🥳Oyez braves gens, j'ai une super-nouvelle! L'appel à communications du 6e colloque de notre International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-6) est disponible ici👉https://indl.network Cette année, rendez-vous à Berlin, du 9 au 11 oct. 2023. Deadline pour envoyer vos abstracts: 3 avr. 2023. #futureofwork #platformeconomy #digitallabour #algorithmicmanagement #artificialintelliegence #automation

European Parliament votes for "presumption of employment" which could ultimately benefit some 28 million workers linked to the world of courier platforms #uber #deliveroo #platformeconomy
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/020223/au-parlement-europeen-uber-et-deliveroo-perdent-une-bataille?utm_source=global&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SharingApp&xtor=CS3-5

RT @ADAPT_bulletin@twitter.com

📽️#GTL2022 Interviews to Keynote Speakers - @WZwysen@twitter.com (@ETUI_org@twitter.com) interviewed by @chialtilio@twitter.com
🔎A focus on #digital & #platformeconomy, looking into the issues of #gendersegregation & risks (i.e. #discrimination and misclassifications of employment status)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJROMKc9EZw

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ADAPT_bulletin/status/1620327489024430080

Our SEAD consortium is happy to share the first pre-eliminary results on the #platformeconomy in Belgium! 🚖 🚲 📱

Read our policy brief in Dutch, French and English via www.sead.be

What is discussed? 🤔

📊 An overview of the phenomenon of platform work in Belgium.

👤 Findings related to the sociodemographic and professional profile of Belgian platform workers.

🧠 Findings related to the precarity and well-being of food couriers in Brussels.

#VUB #ULB #KULEUVEN #ULIEGE

Which is the meaning of "#property/#ownership" in the current #PlatformEconomy #SharingEconomy #GigEconomy?

'¿Qué sentido tiene hacer una campaña de seguros para jóvenes...si la mayoría no tiene la oportunidad de #tener nada? ¿Qué van a querer asegurar?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvFNEQtMVGI

I used to refer to digital platforms as (data) ecologies. My apologies. But the relations there are not at all symmetric, they are ambivalent, at best, no harmony, just ends and means that have nothing to do with what they display.
The relation is, thus, not symbiotic or simply parasitic either. It is some kinf of reciprocal parasitism with weird distributions of dependency, benefit, and harm at all sites. It might deserve its own term but another metaphor anyway.
#SocialMedia #PlatformEconomy #Serres

Italian outlet Vita talks about the article published in the Internet Policy Review by Paola Tubaro, Marion Coville, Clement Le Ludec and yours truly about #platformeconomy , #crowdwork and #genderequality

https://www.vita.it/it/article/2023/01/09/parita-di-genere-anche-sulle-piattaforme-e-un-miraggio/165363/

(If you want to read the article, it is available in #openaccess over here👉 https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/hidden-inequalities-gendered-labour-women-micro-tasking-platforms)

Excellent text by Melissa Heikkilä on how the #Lensa #AI reproduces sexualized stereotypes—in a particularly gross way.

As AI's are taught with existing material, hegemonic power relations get built into them.

In the #PlatformEconomy unequal power and #labor relations are often depoliticized by making them "features" of the algorithm. This was evident when I worked as a courier for a #platform company.

When thinking about AIs etc., we need to think about politics.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/12/1064751/the-viral-ai-avatar-app-lensa-undressed-me-without-my-consent/

Cory Doctorow has another comprehensive and crystal clear explanation why the #platformeconomy is such a shitstorm and why Big Tech is only getting bigger. At the expense of the creators.

Long thread and worth it.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109422528958725421

Tomorrow we discuss everything #platformwork, including voices of platform workers themselves from care, ridehailing, microtasking, and food delivery. Still possible and free to sign up!
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RT @DJBunders
⌚️ Just one more week to sign up! Panel 1 features the diverse experiences of #platformworkers themselves. Panel 2 focuses on how regulations and collective action can improve conditions across the #platformeconomy. https://www.eur.nl/e…
https://twitter.com/DJBunders/status/1592598808478695424

⌚️ Just one more week to sign up! Panel 1 features the diverse experiences of #platformworkers themselves. Panel 2 focuses on how regulations and collective action can improve conditions across the #platformeconomy. https://www.eur.nl/en/events/panel-discussion-navigating-work-platform-economy-2022-11-22-0

So, weiter gehts mit der Schöpfungshöhe! 😳#UrhR

RT @ViliLe@twitter.com

There’s now a market for Dalle/Midjourney prompts 😳 A good prompt is priced at $2-$5 per buyer and takes a creator $10-$15 in Dalle credits to produce, according to one. https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/2/23326868/dalle-midjourney-ai-promptbase-prompt-market-sales-artist-interview #aiart #dalle #midjourney #platformeconomy

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ViliLe/status/1566440709179277315

Referenced link: https://hackernoon.com/should-online-platforms-have-unions
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://hackernoon.com/should-online-platforms-have-unions

Originally posted by HackerNoon | Will NOT Insert LINKS in HN stories / @hackernoon@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/hackernoon/status/1532056388851351553#m

"Should Online Platforms Have Unions?" by @ljin18 https://hackernoon.com/should-online-platforms-have-unions #lijin #platformeconomy

Referenced link: https://hackernoon.com/should-online-platforms-have-unions
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://hackernoon.com/should-online-platforms-have-unions

Originally posted by HackerNoon | Will NOT Insert LINKS in HN stories / @hackernoon@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/hackernoon/status/1528432510446837761#m

"Should Online Platforms Have Unions?" by @ljin18 https://hackernoon.com/should-online-platforms-have-unions #lijin #platformeconomy

#Web3 / #Web30 I find not only good and not only useful, but nowendig.
The #BigTech dominated #platformeconomy is an absolute mess. We need to take back the #Internet.
And with the #Fediverse, for example, we already do that, even without #blockchain.
https://www.gillesdc.com/blog/web3

RT @veoc_vt@twitter.com

Our Co-ED @MattCropp@twitter.com had a great conversation today with @ntnsndr@twitter.com about his research into #ESOP history and opportunities for cultivating broad-based ownership in the #PlatformEconomy. Check it out:

https://youtu.be/Se0cnxytBuU

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/veoc_vt/status/1154466486364151809

@paolo @lucaconti @casilli This is a more sceptical take, published by Columbia Law Review:

"The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, and Power"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2929643

#PlatformEconomy