Oliver Chan
@ngaikeungchan
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researching about the gig economy and platforms
Joined April 2015
RT @davidthewid: 📣🚨NEW: ☁️ Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft & Amazon—control two thirds of the cloud market. They’re getting rich off the AI gol….
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RT @jathansadowski: Very happy to see my invited article for Nature is out in the new issue. I wrote about computer vision, the AI surveill….
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RT @DrRay_tweets: What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age?. Thrilled abou….
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During and after the months of pandemic control measures, newly formed unions of platform and gig workers in India started leveraging electoral contests, campai...
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RT @Lata1319: Very pleased to see our (w @tonyskup ) latest paper 'Parasitic platform urbanism in Dhaka and Melbourne' published in @HGJour….
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This paper explores the relationship between platform-mediated labour on Uber, Pathao, UberEats and DoorDash, and the public infrastructures of two cities – Dha...
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RT @ILRReview: Here is a great debate: @valeriapuligna2 responds to the book review forum arguing how the state must address the uneven dis….
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RT @Melissahei: New research reveals a worrying trend: AI's data practices risk concentrating power overwhelmingly in the hands of dominant….
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New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating power in the hands of the most powerful tech companies.
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RT @timnitGebru: Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners📢. Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehe….
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RT @JorgeSekera: 1/2🌍💻Are digital nomads the new "creative class" in cities marketplace? In my recent @IJURResearch paper, I explore how ci….
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RT @grohmann_rafael: New article published in the Platforms & Society journal. The platformization of the follower factory: para-platforms,….
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RT @vieira_tiago_: New paper out! Do digital platforms really change when workers are reclassified? In our new research published in Socio-….
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RT @ntnsndr: Just published at the wonderful (open access) journal First Monday, my long-in-progress article on a general theory of how inn….
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RT @datasociety: A new study estimates that equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-wa….
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Equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-waste by 2030, a relatively small but significant fraction of the global total.
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RT @silvertje: Excited to share our chapter on the 'Platform' metaphor (w/ @fvandervlist) in this great Digital Media Metaphors book (ed. b….
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RT @gadgets4you: Uber’s food delivery division Uber Eats has rolled out a new scheme to FORCE independent contractors to work how, where an….
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RT @bshestakofsky: New open access article with @Devika__narayan! . In this commentary, we advance a relational perspective on AI, work, an….
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The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in how AI will transform work and organizations, presenting scholars with the difficult task of studying emerg...
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RT @daphnehk: More than anything else I’ve written, this piece about the “compliance-ization” of Trust and Safety felt like news reporting.….
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Content moderation is becoming a “compliance function,” with trust and safety operations run like factories and audited like investment banks.
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RT @lukewgoldstein: Uber paid Obama’s council of Econ Advisors chair 100k for an NBER study lauding the benefits of “flexible gig work” for….
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RT @grohmann_rafael: New article published in @pandsociety : Understanding the “platform” keyword: An inquiry on the contested use of metap….
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The emerging field of platform studies has sparked an ongoing debate regarding the meaning and utility of the term 'platform' within the academic comm...
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RT @bshestakofsky: New open access article on the labor behind AI systems! Drawing on a case study, I examine how technologists and data wo….
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Data work—the routinized, information-processing operations that support artificial intelligence systems—has been portrayed as a source of both economic opportu...
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