Online labour markets represent a rapidly growing feature of the world of work. Dozens of international online market places exist for the buying and selling of labour. The number of hours worked on oDesk.com (now known as Upwork), a leading… Continue Reading
I am delighted to announce that our call for papers surrounding information and the right to the city has been extremely successful. Mark Graham and myself will be running three sessions at the annual AAG conference (San Francisco, March-April 2016)… Continue Reading
I’m looking for two great postdocs to join me for at least 3.5 years to study how ICTs are being used to transform the labour market, through online labour marketplaces, ride hailing apps, and similar digital platforms. The purpose of… Continue Reading
We are lucky to have Alex Wood joining our team in the Microwork and Virtual Production Networks project! Alex is a sociologist of work and employment, and his work has focused on the changing nature of employment relations and labour markets. He is… Continue Reading
If you Google the city ‘Jerusalem’ today, you will most likely see something like the screenshot above. In addition to Google’s organic search results presented as a list of 112 million possible sites that may meet my information seeking needs,… Continue Reading
I’ve posted online a pre-print version of my upcoming chapter in Space, place and global digital work, edited by Jörg Flecker (Palgrave-Macmillan 2016). The chapter is titled Algorithms That Divide and Unite: Delocalization, Identity, and Collective Action in ‘Microwork’. I… Continue Reading
I’m happy to announce the launch of an exciting and important new initiative that I am co-directing with my colleagues Iginio Gagliardone and Proochista Ariana: the Big Data and Human Development incubator. We aim to investigate the potential uses of ‘big data’ for… Continue Reading
The book that Bill Dutton and I edited and published last year – Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives – is now on sale if you use this discount code. It will… Continue Reading
The Datasthesia team recently turned one of our digital maps into a material printed object. They also kindly shared their files so that we could replicate the process with our own printer. This is what some of the process looked… Continue Reading
Two of us just put out a last-minute CfP for next year’s AAG. This ties into our GeoNet work (especially under the Innovation Hubs pillar) and in my dissertation work. Please share widely and submit by Oct 19 if you have suitable… Continue Reading
