Gruszka, Katarzyna, Böhm, Madeleine. 2020. Out of sight, out of mind? (In)visibility of/in platform-mediated work. New Media & Society (NMS). 1-20.
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Abstract
With platforms accounting for 1–3% of paid work in advanced economies, discussions on their impact on labor are proliferating. Focusing on commercial platforms providing intermediation to a workforce available on-demand, we further systematize the field by approaching platform-mediated work through the lens of (in)visibility. We map four basic forms of platform-mediated work against three variations of (in)visibility: (1) perceptible, (2) institutional, and (3) individual, and discuss the implications through the stories of three protagonists of platform workers. The suggested meta-analysis tool for understanding the mechanism of rendering platform workers obscure exposes who is recognized as a worker, what is recognized as work, and how these questions are negotiated in a platform-mediated digital space. As such, the framework provides a joint space for the discussions of the core issues of the field—from regulation and uncertainties of platform employment, through exacerbating vulnerabilities of workers, to surveillance and self-governance.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | New Media & Society (NMS) |
Citation Index | SSCI |
WU-Journal-Rating new | INF-A |
Language | English |
Title | Out of sight, out of mind? (In)visibility of/in platform-mediated work |
Year | 2020 |
Page from | 1 |
Page to | 20 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1461444820977209 |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444820977209 |
Open Access | Y |
Open Access Link | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1461444820977209 |
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- People
- Gruszka, Katarzyna (Details)
- External
- Böhm, Madeleine (University of Erfurt, Germany)
- Organization
- Institute for Ecological Economics IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5118 Political science (Details)
- 5325 Political economics (Details)
- 5345 Social economy (Details)
- 5366 Information society (Details)
- 5415 Economic sociology (Details)
- 5422 Feminist issues (Details)
- 5902 Labour market research (Details)
- 5912 Social sciences (interdisciplinary) (Details)
- 5941 Information society (Details)