INFO 202 Lecture 15: Week 15 p1
Week 15
4/24 – Current and Future
Gig Work and Crowdsourcing Platforms
• Trading labor and flexibility
• Wok fo pees, i.e., ideshaig, hoeshaig
• Poisig alteatie to taditioal eploet i toda’s digital ea – The World Bank, 2015
Fragmentation and IT
• This elaatio of spatial ad tepoal ostaits allos fo the deopositio of ok ito
multiple segments of subtasks that can be performed at different times and/or locations. Such
separation of activities into discrete pieces is ool teed the fagetatio of atiit.
(emphasis added)
Work as Social Processes
• Moe fageted atiit & oilit pattes eflet hages i people’s pefeees esultig
in new forms of living
• Shifts in temporal & spatial boundaries
• Chances for self-managed workflows
New Labor Platforms
• Distinct fragmentation of work
o Digital pieeok, o gig ok alas happes soehee
o Multitasking
o High level of connectivity & discontinuity
o Opaque transparency
o Technological affordances reinforced by social media & mobile applications and other
various Its
▪ Constant connectivity & instant accessibility
o Cultural shifts through interactions in both digital and physical spaces
▪ Strategies of control: total availability and inaccessibility
o Individual personality traits and social behaviors in the use of Its
▪ Eeda esistae & egageet fo oe’s autoo
• AMT Digital piecework
o 24/7 online accessible workplace
o Anonymously browsable
o Variety of tasks
o Minimum communication
o Distanced relationship
o Reward system by reviews
Taylorism
• The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
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Document Summary
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