Journal article
Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation
- Abstract:
- Digital labour platforms do not attempt to build trust between worker, client, and platform on the basis of strong and durable ties. Instead, platforms utilize a double articulation of algorithmic power to govern spatially dispersed workforces in both material and discursive ways. However, algorithms do not have hegemonic outcomes, and they do not entirely strip away agency from platform workers. Through manipulation, subversion, and disruption, workers bring fissures in algorithmic power into being. Fissures in algorithmic power are moments in which algorithms do not govern as intended. While these moments do not simply result in positive outcomes for workers, they show that algorithmic power is inherently only ever partial.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/09502386.2021.1895250
Authors
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- Cultural Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 35
- Pages:
- 814-832
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-21
- DOI:
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1466-4348
- ISSN:
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0950-2386
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1167822
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pubs:1167822
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2021-03-15
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- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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