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The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction

Jamie Woodcock, Mark Graham

Drawing upon years of research, stories from gig workers, and a review of the key trends and debates, Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham shed light on how the gig economy came to be, how it works and what it’s like to work in it.
Book

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables

Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, Joe Shaw (eds)

With 44 contributing authors and 38 chapters, the book playfully combines speculative fiction and analysis of 38 different business models and practices when applied to running our cities of the future.
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Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives (2nd Edition)

Mark Graham, William Dutton (eds)

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? This volume addresses the big questions about one of the most significant technological transformations of this century.
Book

The Logic of Information

Luciano Floridi

A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

Latest Articles, Conference Proceedings and Other Publications

John, C.R., Watson, D., Russ, D., Goldmann, K., Ehrenstein, M., Pitzalis, C., Lewis, M. and Barnes, M. (2020) "M3C: Monte Carlo reference-based consensus clustering", Scientific Reports. 10 (1) 1816.
Camargo, C.Q., Bright, J., McNeill, G., Raman, S. and Hale, S.A. (2020) "Estimating Traffic Disruption Patterns with Volunteered Geographic Information", Scientific Reports. England. 10 (1) 252.
Møller, N.L.H., Bossen, C., Pine, K.H., Nielsen, T. and NEFF, G. (2020) "Who does the work of data?", ACM Interactions.
DiCosola, B. and NEFF, G. (2020) "Using Social Comparisons to Facilitate Healthier Choices in Online Grocery Shopping Contexts", CHI 2020 Extended Abstracts, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA.. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, 25 – 30 April 2020. (ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-6819-3/20/04)
John, C.R., Watson, D., Barnes, M.R., Pitzalis, C. and Lewis, M.J. (2020) "Spectrum: fast density-aware spectral clustering for single and multi-omic data", Bioinformatics. 36 (4) 1159-1166.
Milano, S. (2020) "Bayesian Beauty", Erkenntnis.
Graham, M., Woodcock, J., Heeks, R., Mungai, P., Van Belle, J.-.P., du Toit, D., Fredman, S., Osiki, A., van der Spuy, A. and Silberman, S.M. (2020) "The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for improving platform work in a global context", Geoforum.
Woodcock, J. and Graham, M. (2020) The Gig Economy A Critical Introduction. Polity.
Morley, J. and Floridi, L. (2020) "An ethically mindful approach to AI for health care", The Lancet. 395 (10220) 254-255.
NICHOLLS, T. and Hayton, R. (2020) "Splitting the Tactical Vote? Coordination Problems with Polling Model-Driven Tactical Voting Websites", Political Quarterly.
Hoang, L., Blank, G. and Quan-Haase, A. (2020) "The winners and the losers of the platform economy: who participates?", Information, Communication & Society. 1-20.
Gorichanaz, T., Furner, J., Ma, L., Bawden, D., Robinson, L., Dixon, D., Herold, K., Søe, S.O., Van der Veer Martens, B. and Floridi, L. (2020) "Information and design: book symposium on Luciano Floridi’s The Logic of Information", Journal of Documentation.
Orben, A. and Przybylski, A.K. (2020) "Teenage sleep and technology engagement across the week", PeerJ. 8 (1) e8427.
GRAHAM, M. (2020) "Regulate, replicate, and resist – The conjunctural geographies of platform urbanism", Urban Geography. 1-5.
SCHROEDER, R. (2020) "Political Power and the Globalizing Spread of Populist Politics", Journal of Political Power.
Watson, D. and Floridi, L. (2019) The Explanation Game: A Formal Framework for Interpretable Machine Learning.
WINTERS, N., EYNON, R., GENIETS, A., ROBSON, J. and KAHN, K. (2019) "Can we avoid digital structural violence in future learning systems?", Learning, Media and Technology. 45 (1) 17-30.
ANWAR, M. and GRAHAM, M. (2019) "Hidden Transcripts of the Gig Economy: Labour Agency and the New Art of Resistance among African Gig Workers", Environment and Planning A.
VIDGEN, B. and YASSERI, T. (2019) "Detecting weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media", Journal of Information Technology and Politics.
SIMPSON, C. (2019) "Farm size shapes friend choice amongst rice producers in China: Some evidence for the theory of network ecology", Social Networks.
Howson, K., GRAHAM, M. and KATTA, S. (2019) Platform workers, the future of work and Britain’s election. Media@LSE.
BRAESEMANN, F., Stoehr, N., Frommelt, M. and Zhou, S. (2019) "Mining the Automotive Industry: A Network Analysis of Corporate Positioning and Technological Trends", CompleNET 2020 Conference. CompleNET 2020 Conference. Springer.
BRAESEMANN, F., SAULL, A. and BAUM, A. (2019) "Can Digital Technologies Speed up Real Estate Transactions?", Journal of Property Investment and Finance.
SHAW, J. (2019) The Hidden Hand of the Hipster: real estate data analytics platforms and Build-to-Rent investment. Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE). CaCHE.
ANWAR, M. and GRAHAM, M. (2019) "Digital labour at economic margins: African workers and the global information economy", Review of African Political Economy.
Bolsover, G. and Howard, P.H.I.L.I.P. (2019) "Chinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation of information about Chinese politics on Twitter and Weibo", Information, Communication and Society. 22 (14) 2063-2080.
Overton, J., Murray, W.E. and Howson, K. (2019) "Doing good by drinking wine? Ethical value networks and upscaling of wine production in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa", European Planning Studies. 27 (12) 2431-2449.
Dittus, M. and Graham, M. (2019) "Mapping Wikipedia’s Geolinguistic Contours", Digital Culture & Society. 5 (1) 147-164.
Floridi, L. (2019) "Autonomous Vehicles: from Whether and When to Where and How", Philosophy and Technology. 32 (4) 569-573.
Morley, J., Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L. (2019) "Google Health and the NHS: overcoming the trust deficit", The Lancet Digital Health. 1 (8) e389.
TADDEO, M., McCutcheon, T. and FLORIDI, L. (2019) "Trusting artificial intelligence in cybersecurity is a double-edged sword", Nature Machine Intelligence. 1 (12) 557-560.
Vedres, B. and Vasarhelyi, O. (2019) "Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development", EPJ Data Science. 8.
Camargo, C.Q., Bright, J. and Hale, S.A. (2019) "Diagnosing the performance of human mobility models at small spatial scales using volunteered geographical information", Royal Society Open Science. 6 (11) 191034.
Wood, A., GRAHAM, M. and ANWAR, M. (2019) "Minimum Wages for Online Labour Platforms? Regulating the Global Gig Economy." In: 'The Digital Transformation of Labor (Open Access): Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare Larsson, A. and Teigland, R. (eds.)Routledge Studies in Labour Economics. London: Routledge.
GRAHAM, M. and ANWAR, M. (2019) "The global gig economy: towards a planetary labour markets?" In: 'The Digital Transformation of Labor: Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare' Larsson, A. and Teigland, R. (eds.)Routledge Studies in Labour Economics. London: Routledge.
Milano, S., Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L. (2019) Ethical Aspects of Multi-stakeholder Recommendation Systems.
Selwyn, N., Hillman, T., Eynon, R., Ferreira, G., Knox, J., Macgilchrist, F. and Sancho-Gil, J.M. (2019) "What's next for Ed-Tech? Critical hopes and concerns for the 2020s", LEARNING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY. 45 (1) 1-6.
Morley, J., Machado, C., Burr, C., Cowls, J., Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L. (2019) The Debate on the Ethics of AI in Health Care: A Reconstruction and Critical Review.
SCHROEDER, R. (2019) "The Dangerous Myth of Populism as a Thin Ideology", Populism.
Shoemark, P., Ferdousi Liza, F., Nguyen, D., HALE, S. and McGillivray, B. (2019) "Room to Glo: A Systematic Comparison of Semantic Change Detection Approaches with Word Embeddings", Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2019..
HOGAN, B., Janulis, P., Phillips II, G.L., Melville, J., Mustanski, B., Contractor, N. and Birkett, M. (2019) "Assessing the stability of ego-centered networks over time using the digital participant-aided sociogram tool Network Canvas", Network Science.
ANWAR, M. and GRAHAM, M. (2019) "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Freedom, Flexibility, Precarity and Vulnerability in the Gig Economy in Africa", Competition and Change: the journal of global political economy.
Schroeder, R. (2019) "Historicizing media, globalizing media research: infrastructures, publics, and everyday life", Journal of Global History. 14 (3) 437-453.
Przybylski, A.K. and Weinstein, N. (2019) "Investigating the Motivational and Psychosocial Dynamics of Dysregulated Gaming: Evidence From a Preregistered Cohort Study", Clinical Psychological Science. 7 (6) 1257-1265.
Lanier, M., Waddell, T.F., Elson, M., Tamul, D.J., Ivory, J.D. and Przybylski, A. (2019) "Virtual reality check: Statistical power, reported results, and the validity of research on the psychology of virtual reality and immersive environments", Computers in Human Behavior. 100 70-78.
Schwartz, B. and NEFF, G. (2019) "The gendered affordances of Craigslist ‘new-in-town girls wanted’ ads", New Media and Society. 21 (11-12) 2404-2421.
Burr, C., Morley, J., Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L. (2019) Digital Psychiatry: Ethical Risks and Opportunities for Public Health and Well-Being.
Posetti, J., Simon, F. and Shabbir, N. (2019) "What if Scale Breaks Community? Rebooting Audience Engagement When Journalism is Under Fire" In: Journalism Innovation Project. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Mergenthaler, A. and Yasseri, T. (2019) "Selling Sex: What Determines Rates and Popularity? An Analysis of 11.5 Thousand Online Profiles", SSRN.
Stoehr, N., Braesemann, F. and Zhou, S. (2019) Mining the Automotive Industry: A Network Analysis of Corporate Positioning and Technological Trends.

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Latest Books

The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables

Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives (2nd Edition)

The Logic of Information

Latest Articles, Conference Proceedings and Other Publications

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