Julie Yujie Chen
@woshihama
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Assistant Professor, ICCIT & iSchool, University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Joined April 2010
RT @iccitutm: The ICCIT is hiring an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Design and Production. Details about the position can be found….
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Design and Production
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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 @msteinbrg: Texts have paratexts. Platforms have paraplatforms - and we need to think through them. New research objects and angles appe….
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In this short commentary, I suggest the term “paraplatform” as a means of expanding the purview of platform studies. The hope is that this conceptual term may o...
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RT @nicole_s_cohen: Nelanthi Hewa and I have a new paper out: "Controlled connection: Substack and writers of color." Happy to share a copy….
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Abstract. Substack, a self-described “subscription network for independent writers and creators,” launched in 2017. Substack claims to be part of a better
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RT @pandsociety: We are very glad to share two new commentaries as part of our inaugural essays. @parana_ writes about platforms at the fin….
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A series of events in Toronto involving artists, academics, and activists to explore the intersections of time, labor, technology and decolonial strategies in a fashion of forming "temporal insurgency". Join us for Bad Timekeepers, 10/19 – 23 & 11/7, 2024.
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Bad Timekeepers: A Temporal Insurgency Across Two Cities October 19 – 23 and November 7, 2024 Various Venues, Toronto/Tkaronto @xights_collective x-ights /cros-sites/, an artist collective co-founded...
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RT @pandsociety: How are visibility and ephemerality negotiated by feminist activists in their platformed acts of engagement? @sofiapcaldei….
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Feminists have long taken advantage of social media platforms for political and activist practices. While these efforts can take place in a varied digital media...
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RT @pandsociety: Another commentary is out: this time Brett Neilson discusses consolidation as an entry point to the study of the political….
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Job seekers! My department is hiring a game studies prof. Application due Nov. 6. @iccitutm
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Assistant Professor - Game Studies
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RT @maxhaiven: Thanks to @doctorow , Mark McGurl, @jamie_woodcock and Sherryl Vint for saying nice things. It's great to get The World Afte….
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RT @pandsociety: Our first original research article on the algorithmic management of house-cleaning platform labour
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Algorithmic management has been a prominent focus of platform labour studies and is lately receiving increasing academic and policymaking interest. Conceptualis...
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Check out a compelling commentary by @Devika__narayan published in Platforms & Society @pandsociety.
🎉 My commentary on the political economy of platforms is out in the newly minted Platforms & Society (@pandsociety)! . The upshot:.
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RT @HK_NikkiSun: New report out! I have been talking about how AI is affecing work in China for almost two years and the report is finally….
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RT @rawanbaki: My piece, "The Racial Labour Geographies of Amazon in Canada’s Greater Toronto Area" is now online. I share it with exciteme….
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RT @restofworld: Companies are adopting AI job interviewers to handle job applications. Critics say the opaque LLMs raise serious concerns….
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AI interview services say they’re eliminating bias — but not everyone agrees.
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happening now. Anyone cares about digital labour issues should come and learn from these data workers.
📢Thrilled to finally introduce.✨the Data Workers' Inquiry.✨our 15 community researchers.✨and the repository!.This is a long thread and a reminder to join an event that will challenge what you know about data work: July 8, 5 pm CET/11 am EST,.1/x🧵👇
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RT @nicole_s_cohen: New article: "Diversity Through Precarity? Race, Gender, and Work in Digital Journalism." Co-authored with Shannon Clar….
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Background: Women have increased opportunities to participate in digital journalism, but racial and gender disparities are still pervasive in the industry. Analysis: Using qualitative, semi-structu...
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RT @mscdigsoc: Digital worker inquiry and the critical potential of participatory worker data science for on-demand platform workers:. http….
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The knowledge that workers have of the systems they work under is an outcome of strategic choices by platforms and by workers themselves. Based on three initiatives undertaken by food distribution...
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RT @AINowInstitute: AI workers in Kenya are organizing on multiple fronts, calling attention to how U.S. tech companies like ScaleAI & Meta….
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22 May 2024 Dear President Biden, Cc: Ambassador Katherine Tai, US Trade Representative, We are 97 data labellers, content moderators …
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The journal is online and open access! We welcome intersectional, cross-disciplinary, and geographically diverse perspectives on platformization and the dynamic relationship between platforms and societies! Submissions with a range of critical approaches are all welcome!.
Platforms & Society is edited by a collective of @nielsvdoorn @chesoriano @andretwp @grohmann_rafael and me. Read our introductory editorial:
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