Protocol has become a common term in a huge variety of technical and societal fields. This entry traces its proliferation from Antiquity to blockchains and points out its organisational properties and powers.
This paper investigates whether it is possible for external publics to detect algorithmic targeting in political advertisements, using the tools provided by the Facebook Ad Library.
This glossary entry explores traceability which is an increasingly prominent research topic in decentralised technosocial systems in fields as diverse as health, sustainability, finance, and supply chain management and relates to the ability to trace something or someone.
Data intermediaries entail data governance measures for ensuring that data is only processed as appropriate, giving stakeholders some degree of confidence that their rights and interests are properly respected.
Openness is contextual. Open implies access to resources or participatory mode of production that can be otherwise closed or restricted in degrees. Openness does not necessarily lead to inclusiveness or equity, even though it may be used to invoke such ideals.
The social appropriation of new technologies refers to technological and social processes of mediation in the interaction between social actors and technological devices.
What kind of social contract underwrites platform capitalism? Based on findings from the Platform Labor research project, this essay argues that we are seeing the emergence of different gendered “platform fixes”.
Gender inequalities in digital labour platforms echo those in the traditional labour market.
This paper considers the logic of ‘platform care’ as a continuation of historically invisibilised reproductive labour.
This study applies a “doing gender” perspective and intersectionality theory to examine the gendered access to the European sharing economy.