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Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon’s digital humanitarian infrastructures
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 13 pp.
"This article draws upon a multi-sited ethnography of everyday labour in Lebanon’s digital cash assistance for Syrian refugees. The datafication of humanitarian infrastructures generates technological breakdown, gaps in data and incredibly strict and cumbersome rules. In response to impediments re
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Gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa: Findings from a multi-country analysis
Platforms & Society, volume 2 (2025), 16 pp.
"Hopes that the growth of platform work in Africa will provide new opportunities for women’s employment have not yet been matched by empirical research. Based on a five-country survey of workers on 18 platforms across four sectors (ride-hailing, delivery, professional, microtasks), the research re
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Digitaler Kolonialismus: Wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen
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München: Beck (2025), 351 pp.
"Das Versprechen der Digitalen Revolution ist die Heilserzählung unsererZeit. Dieses Buch erzählt eine andere Geschichte: Die des digitalen Kolonialismus. Statt physisches Land einzunehmen, erobern die heutigen Kolonialherren den digitalen Raum. Statt nach Gold und Diamanten lassen sie unter mensc
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Atlas der KI: Die materielle Wahrheit hinter den neuen Datenimperien
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2025), 336 pp.
"Ist Künstliche Intelligenz nur eine weitere Entwicklung der Digitalisierung des Alltags, eine effiziente Software in einer „Cloud“? Die KI-Forscherin Kate Crawford entlarvt diese verharmlosende Vorstellung und beleuchtet die konkreten Auswirkungen der Technologie auf die physische Welt. Ihre R
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Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets
Big Data & Society (2024), 19 pp.
"Online labour markets (OLMs) are a vital source of income for globally diverse and dispersed freelancers. Despite their promise of neutrality, OLMs are known to perpetuate hiring discrimination, vested in how OLMs are designed and what kinds of interactions they enable between freelancers and hirer
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Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work
Big Data & Society, issue April-June (2024), 12 pp.
"Many workers worldwide rely on digital platforms for their income. In Venezuela, a nation grappling with extreme inflation and where most of the workforce is self-employed, data production platforms for machine learning have emerged as a viable opportunity for many to earn an income in US dollars.
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Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Data work—the routinized, information-processing operations that support artificial intelligence systems—has been portrayed as a source of both economic opportunity and exploitation. Existing research on the moral economy of data work focuses on platforms where individuals anonymously complete
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“O Ever Youthful, O Ever Weeping”: Exploring Youth Empowerment through Platform-Dependent Creative Labor in China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1225-1245
"This study presents “platform-dependent creative labor” as a typology for exploring youth empowerment through the performance of creative labor on Bilibili, the most prevalent Chinese digital entertainment platform among young people. It employs digital ethnography and semistructured interviews
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“It Was Very Hard for Me to Keep Doing That Job”: Understanding Troll Farm’s Working in the Arab World
Social Media + Society, volume 10, issue 1 (2024), 10 pp.
"This article investigates the production culture and routines of “troll farms” in three Arab countries—Tunisia, Egypt, and Iraq—from a production studies approach. A production studies approach enables us to focus on the working conditions of paid trolls. We employed qualitative methods to
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Algorithmic transparency and accountability in the world of work: A mapping study into the activities of trade unions
Algorithm Watch; International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) (2023), 29 pp.
"This report, prepared by AlgorithmWatch for the ITUC, looks at examples from around the world of how unions are tackling the crucial issues of transparency and regulation in relation to algorithms. It reveals that while there is a substantial and growing body of trade union knowledge and policy, th
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Digital Livelihoods Undone: Digital Skills Training and the Systematic Exclusion of Refugees in Lebanon
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2022), pp. 42-47
"A decade into the Syrian war, Lebanon remains the country hosting the largest number of refugees per capita worldwide, limiting their work to three sectors of the economy. Most of the employed refugees have therefore been active in the informal market under indecent and insecure working conditions.
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Digital Responsibility: Bridging Ethical Divides in Digital Refugee Livelihoods
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2022), pp. 52-54
"This op-ed outlines key issues humanitarians should consider when assessing their ‘digital responsibility’ to foster digital refugee livelihoods. This includes in particular the need to develop robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks of outcomes of digital livelihoods trainings for refugees
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Informal Youth Employment in the Mobile Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa
London: GSMA (2021), 48 pp.
The Dynamics of Digital Media in the Philippines: Legacies and Potentials
Media International Australia, volume 179, issue 1 (2021), pp. 3-95
Das Kapital sind wir: Zur Kritik der digitalen Ökonomie
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 268 pp.
"Dass die Digitalisierung die Wirtschaft grundlegend verändert, steht mittlerweile außer Frage. Die technischen Innovationen haben neue Geschäftsfelder eröffnet, neue Formen von Wertschöpfung ermöglicht und Grenzziehungen zwischen Produzenten und Konsumenten ins Wanken gebracht. Aber wie genau
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