May 13, 2019 feature coverage of Ghost Work, by tech writer Angela Chen, at the Verge Read the full feature on The Verge …
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Washington Post Global Opinions | The hidden global workforce that is still fighting for an eight-hour workday
By Mary L. Gray "In most of the industrialized world, May 1 is a national holiday commemorating the lives lost in the 1886 Chicago Haymarket massacre, which …
Ghost Work featured on Technology | Academics | Policy (TAP)
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass featured on Technology | Academics | Policy (TAP), a forum for scholarly debate …
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Paradox of Automation’s Last Mile
By Mary L. Gray, cross-posting from the Social Media Collective blog My collaborator, Siddharth Suri, and I spent nearly 5 years studying a nascent but …
The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain
Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri have published an article for the Harvard Business Review asking, “just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence?” Whether …
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Spike in Online Gig Work: Flash in the Pan or Future of Employment?
Siddharth Suri and Mary L. Gray Most conventional jobs involve hierarchy. A boss divvies up work to the office’s full-time employees awaiting direction and a …
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Report: Platformation. Greetings from the future of work!
On September 9, 2015, the Data & Society Research Institute hosted Platformation, a one-day summit that brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to …
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The Future of Work: Caring for the Crowdworker going it alone
—The Pacific Standard “Crowdwork represents a small but growing microclimate in the ecosystem known as platform economies. These are business activities …
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Fixing the chaotic crowdworker economy
—Bloomberg News From our surveys of thousands of such workers, we know a lot of them string together 30 to 50 hours of work a week, earning a couple of cents …
The Communicators | Ethics & Personal Data Collection
"Mary Gray talked about the ethical questions raised by personal data collection on the Internet and how those data are being used for commercial and academic …
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