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Alicia Massie is a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholar, PhD candidate, and labor organizer at Simon Fraser University. Beyond her academic work, she works as the coordinator of campaign research […]
Julián Posada is a sociologist and information scientist whose work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, and inequality. He focuses on labor rights and community justice in technology development. […]
Alberto Lusoli is the deputy director and postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Democracies Institute in Vancouver, Canada. His research develops at the intersection of media studies, science and technology studies, […]
Milagros Miceli is a sociologist and computer scientist who investigates how ground-truth data for machine learning (ML) is produced. The focus of her research is labor conditions and power dynamics […]
Different forms of ghost work exists in the current digital landscape across national borders. Just Tech Fellow Adrienne Williams and researcher Milagros Miceli examine how these manifestations of invisible work emerge and play role in data work and AI development, and they suggest paths forward beyond making this labor visible.
Edward Ongweso Jr. is the finance editor at Logic(s) magazine and the cohost of This Machine Kills, a podcast on the political economy of technological innovation. His work has appeared […]
Through her experience as an educator and Amazon delivery driver, Adrienne Williams has witnessed first-hand the technological harm inflicted on both students and workers. These experiences catalyzed her to begin […]
Danielle Blunt is a sex worker, community organizer, public health researcher, and the cofounder of Hacking//Hustling, a collective of sex workers and accomplices working at the intersection of tech and […]
Jason Ludwig is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work examines histories of race, computing, and politics […]
Increasingly, companies are implementing new worker selection procedures at every stage of recruitment and employment, often in ways that can reinforce pre-existing disparities in the job market. But employers and […]
Margaret Mitchell had been working at Google for two years before she realized she needed a break. “I started having regular breakdowns,” says Mitchell, who founded and co-led the company’s […]
By Melissa Heikkilä