ToE instaserf Andrew Callaway gets invited to do a TED ALPHA Talk on the sharing economy. Mary Gray (a real sharing economy expert) explains why we are anxious …
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LA Times Op-Ed: Your job is about to get “taskified”
Mary L. Gray published an Op-Ed from our crowdwork research in the Sunday’s Los Angeles Times’ print edition, published on January 10th, 2016 . It reflects on …
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Talk: Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce
On November 2, 2015 Mary Gray gave a talk at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society where she discusses her findings from a two-year collaborative …
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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