News and Research articles on Everyday life

The contingencies of platform power and risk management in the gig economy

Niels van Doorn, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Jun 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1778

This paper demonstrates how gig platforms can become both a resource for risk management and a new source of risk, depending on the complex interaction between a platform’s labour management strategies on the one hand and the mix of support structures and dependencies in a worker’s life on the other.

A guideline for understanding and measuring algorithmic governance in everyday life

Michael Latzer, University of Zurich
Noemi Festic, University of Zurich
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1415

Public policy proposals regarding algorithms are often based on purely theoretically derived risk assessments. We propose a user-centred mixed-methods approach for more evidence-based policymaking.