Honored to be part of extremely important community centered research identifying South Asian cultural limitations in AI-generated images led by Rida Qadri w/ Remi Denton Renee Shelby #FAccT23 in today’s 1:15 Values & Representation session!
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.Mary L. Gray welcomes scholar, designer, & activist Sasha Costanza-Chock to the #MSRPodcast . Tune in as they explore tech design’s role in perpetuating structural inequality & how advocates & community groups are bringing people together for equitable & accountable AI: msft.it/6001w03SD

Perfect timing for this convo. Spoiler alert! My answer will be 'Ah, nope! Need private and public partnerships to fix things ASAP.' Friends, please share Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research Partnership on AI ACM Ethics (@[email protected]) Kathy Pham Kathy Baxter ruchowdh.bsky.social Zia Khan PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics Katya Klinova Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫 🏳️‍🌈

Hello #gigwork #futureofwork #platform studies folks! Please point me to the literature where they were able to collect data from the platform companies (like speaking to managers/folks at Uber, Zomato, Doordash, Swiggy, UberEats)
Linda Huber Else When? Julian Posada Rida Qadri

Rida Qadri's talk for the IEET/AEC Future of Work project 'The Worker in Future(s) of Work.' Using the case of grassroots organization by mobility platform workers in Jakarta. Rida Qadri youtube.com/watch?v=0qkxls…

Resharing for the groggy work week:

My new Media Theory article, 'Breakdown as Method: Screenshots for Dying Worlds' offers a sneak peek of some of the arguments in my forthcoming Yale Univ Press book, Death Glitch. And it's open access! journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/a…

Fascinating Matthew Haag story on rise of NYC warehousing in response to increase in delivery services in recent years. Poses several concerns to surrounding neighborhoods—viability of local stores; maintenance of walkability; increase in freight traffic. nytimes.com/2022/03/16/nyr…

Really looking forward to chopping it up w/the brilliant ruchowdh.bsky.social hypervisible & Suresh Venkatasubramanian (also on sky and mount) on the ways firms can achieve Algo accountability & responsibility. Join us at the MIT IDE #SMSMIT22 led by Sinan Aral. It's virtual, free, & will cover misinfo, algo transparency +more

I’m beyond excited to share my first single-authored peer-reviewed paper and the first major publication from my doctoral research: “Embedded Reproduction in Platform Data Work,” now available in the new issue of Information, Communication & Society! Links below 👇

'It is [the] politics [of categorization] that allows Uber to be cast as innovative disruption while the auto-rickshaws or motorbike taxis that provide a similar service to urban populations around the world are considered dangerous or chaotic.'

AHHH! A first look at the cover for my next book VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want, on-sale from Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s on October 11.

Learn more + pre-order your copy now:
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Qadri studies workers who are seizing the means of computation, reverse-engineering and repurposing the apps that are meant to keep them in bondage and setting themselves free. Her research on gig drivers in Jakarta is essential reading:

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This is mutual aid, with code. It is every bit as innovative and disruptive as Uber or Amazon, but because it is done *by* workers, rather than *to* workers, it is not recognized as such. 7/

A real treat talking to Else When? and Rida Qadri. Their work is absolutely crucial for understanding the globalized tech economy and the colonialist politics that permeate how even critical scholars and journos frame, study, and talk about these platforms and people.

This week Else When? joins Paris Marx to discuss India’s gig economy with a focus on women who work for beauty and wellness services.

In this clip, Noopur explains how political conditions affect the way workers push back on the platforms.

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