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Journalistic Lessons for the Algorithmic Age – The Markup

Julia Angwin

@JuliaAngwin

Feb 4

On my departure, I thought I would reflect on the ten lessons I learned leading these investigations. /4

themarkup.org

A farewell letter from Julia Angwin

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Am I missing something or is it still not possible for academic researchers to access BookScan data?!

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl@mastodon.social

@Timo_Seidl

Feb 3

🚨Tech companies are increasingly involved in European (digital) security governance. In our new

@jepp_journal

article,

@AObendiek

and I try to understand why, tracing the effects of ideational business power in 2 case studies on #palantir and #gaiax.

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Feminist Media Histories

@FemMediaHist

University of California Press and 2 others

During the '70s & '80s, many porn magazines exotified trans feminine bodies. But some of those same magazines also served as underground networks for connecting trans feminine people with each other. Learn more in

@cassius_a

's essay now #free to read here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/

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China Books of The Year

@NewChinaBooks

cup.columbia.edu/book/the-labor

THE LABOR OF REINVENTION How China's explosion of digital entrepreneurialism has both empowered and exploited its participants. A ground-level investigation of 21st-century labor, global in its implications. March 2023

@LinZhang9

@ColumbiaUP

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Monday Night Seminar at

@McLuhanCHI

Feb 6, 6PM with Jennifer Scott (

@GigWorkersUnite

) and

(Northeastern University). Join us! eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night

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Labor Tech Research Network

@labortechgroup

Check out this upcoming event featuring LaborTech members Rafael Grohmann and Moira Weigel!

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Platform workers: collectivities and organizing. In-person event at @McLuhanCHI @UofT with @moiragweigel and Jeniffer Scott @GigWorkersUnite, hosted by me. Join us! eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night

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is there anything on earth more Camberville than the Diaper Lab

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Mary L. Gray

@marylgray

Dr. Moira Weigel (my new BOS neighbor) did an amazing job putting another piece of the puzzle in place--the more light on the long, oft shadowy, supply chains that shape our everyday lives, the better. If you work on platform economies, this report is calling you.

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Jan 31

ofc the week I planned to finish drafting a long-mulled-over piece on digital publics, a new Habermas drops

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Thomas Gregersen

@PoliticalPhilo

Jürgen Habermas – “Reflections and Hypotheses on a Further Structural Transformation of the Political Public Sphere” (2022), open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11

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People who go on TV more often than I do: How do you master the dead stare straight into your webcam? I can’t do it! It feels bananas!

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Northeastern Global News

@NUGlobalNews

#Amazon launched its third-party marketplace for #smallbusinesses to sell products, but rather than expand mom-and-pop shops, the e-commerce giant might be remaking them into its own image.

@Proelectioneer

@NU_CAMD

Amazon is transforming what a small business is–and it looks just like Amazon. Is that a good thing?

news.northeastern.edu

Is Amazon hurting or helping small businesses? An expert says the company is doing something more: molding e-commerce in its image.

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Ben Tarnoff

@bentarnoff

Jan 23

A further thought on the tech layoffs: comp has exploded at the majors over the past ten years or so after the DOJ wage-fixing settlement. Macroeconomic conditions could give management an opening to do a reset on comp, which would please investors

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nicholas baer

@_nbaer_

Jan 27

Join us at #SCMS2023 for a conversation on questions of method with Kartik Nair (

@cinewallah

), Moira Weigel (

), Patrice Petro, Rebecca Wanzo (

@rawreader

) & Pardis Dabashi (

@PDabashi

)!

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Veena Dubal

@veenadubal

Jan 23

I'm very excited to share a draft of a new Article "On Algorithmic Wage Discrimination" that locates and theorizes a world historic rupture in wage calculation, coordination, and distribution. Most concerns about on-the-job data collection focus on 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

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Becca Lewis

@beccalew

Jan 26

WOW - extremely excited to read this new report from

!

In this report, Moira Weigel tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world, while remaining mostly...

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Dorothy R. Santos

@veerax415@post.lurk.org

@deedottiedot

Jan 26

The

@nationalbook

& Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced selected titles for the Science + Literature program! My friend, co-conspirator, and collaborator

@xrw

received this prestigious award and honor for their extraordinary book, Blockchain Chicken Farm. 👏🥳🙌 CONGRATS!!!

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National Book Foundation

@nationalbook

Read the Science + Literature announcement on our website. nationalbook.org/national-book-

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Thea Riofrancos

@triofrancos

More Mobility Less Mining

4 years ago, I searched for research comparing the lithium requirements of EV-heavy US transportation sector vs expanding mass transit, walking + cycling. That research did not exist, a testament to car-centric ideology. Now it does: in English and Spanish

climateandcommunity.org

Reducing the lithium-intensity of zero emissions transportation.

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Juozas Kaziukėnas

@juokaz

Jan 26

This 40-page report on the dynamics of the Amazon Marketplace by

is excellent. "If the question is whether Amazon helps or hurts small businesses, the evidence I have gathered shows that Amazon is doing both and neither."

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Juozas Kaziukėnas

@juokaz

Jan 17

"1/3 of the air cargo leaving China for the US these days are Shein orders" !!!

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Rui Ma 马睿

@ruima

Jan 17

A friend just told me that he was golfing with a big logistics exec in Hainan last week & was told that "1/3 of the air cargo leaving China for the US these days are Shein orders" That's wild if true, but I can actually believe it

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has done it again! I love how this report goes beyond stating Amazon is bad for x (and y and z), to illuminate how it exercises control on small businesses and business owners

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National Book Foundation

@nationalbook

The 2023 Science + Literature selected titles are: DYKE (GEOLOGY) by Sabrina Imbler

@aznfusion

(

@BlackLawrence

), REAL LIFE by Brandon Taylor

@blgtylr

(

@riverheadbooks

/

@penguinrandom

), and BLOCKCHAIN CHICKEN FARM by Xiaowei Wang

@xrw

(

@FSGOriginals

/

@MacmillanUSA

).

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Amazon's trickle-down Monopoly: Third Party Sellers and the Transformation of Small Businesses,

Report by

, one of our guest speakers at

@McLuhanCHI

Monday Night Seminar

In this report, Moira Weigel tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world, while remaining mostly...

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Dr. Lin Zhang

@LinZhang9

This report on Amazon’s third-party sellers is so informative and rich with fascinating stories of sellers ranging from those in the American Midwest to Shenzhen in China. Eye-opening to read!

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tl;dr From the midwestern U. S. to Shenzhen, China, Amazon's dominance is remaking small businesses in Amazon's image. And, if this digital hustle presents opportunities, it also renders businesses and communities highly vulnerable to Amazon's caprice and control.

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Third parties sell most of everything that anyone buys on Amazon. The work they do, and the risk they bear, has played a key role in making Amazon into one of the most powerful companies in the world. But it's very rare for them to speak about their experiences in public.

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The great

spent over a year talking to Amazon sellers around the world I'm especially obsessed with the stories she collected from sellers in China, who have a really intimate understanding of American shopping habits semafor.com/article/01/25/

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📣 New release!

tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world: third-party sellers. datasociety.net/library/amazon 1/6

In this report, Moira Weigel tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world, while remaining mostly...

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Torin Monahan

@TorinMonahan

“algorithmic wage discrimination encompasses not only digitalized payment for work completed, but critically, digitalized decisions to allocate work and judge worker behavior, which are significant determinants of firm control.” #surveillance #platforms

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The Markup

@themarkup

Domingo, a Los Angeles–based Uber driver was just one ride away from a $100 bonus. That’s when he got stuck waiting for Uber’s algorithm to give him another ride. This wasn’t bad luck—it was an engineered outcome, explains @veenadubal: lpeproject.org/blog/the-house

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Haymarket Books

@haymarketbooks

If you are a high school student in Florida, we will gladly send you a copy of

@KeeangaYamahtta

’s From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation for free

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Monday Night Seminar: Platform Workers - Collectivities and Organizing

Platform workers: collectivities and organizing. In-person event at

with

and Jeniffer Scott

, hosted by me. Join us!

eventbrite.ca

Join us as we contemplate the collective and organizing challenges of platform workers.

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Love the opening of

Labor of Reinvention, challenging how we think about the digital economy and apply models developed in distinct contexts (treated as universal). This book is 🔥

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Simu Liu

@SimuLiu

Jan 22

A gunman has murdered ten people and injured over a dozen others in Monterey Park, where tens of thousands of Asian American families had gathered to celebrate the Lunar New Year that day. He is still at large. This should be getting way more coverage in media. A terrible act.

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NortheasternLaw

@NUSL

Jan 18

We are pleased to announce that

@Elibietti

, an expert on market regulation, data and antitrust law, will join the

@Northeastern

community on July 15, 2023, as assistant professor of law and computer science. #NUSLPride law.northeastern.edu/elettra-bietti

@NUGlobalNews

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Intergenerational Struggle Session

We're gigantic

fangirls here, and were honored to be invited to roast our elders in a conversation for their latest issue. On CS ethics education, Logic's evolution, and more ❤️‍🔥

logicmag.io

We don’t know what’s going on. We’re cheugy.

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Yasmin Poole

@yasmin_poole

Jan 16

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and one of the largest individual donors in US politics, just referred to Greta Thunberg as part of the “autistic children’s brigade” in his Oxford address.

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Indymedia was better than Twitter.

Todd Wolfson

@ProfTWolf

Jan 12

It was fun to work on this piece for

@logic_magazine

on indymedia and the limits of social media in activism with

@malavkanuga

.

@MIC_Center

Check it out.

logicmag.io

When We Were the Media

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Laura Portwood-Stacer, PhD

@lportwoodstacer

Jan 9

So pleased to be holding a copy of

@LinZhang9

’s outstanding new book, THE LABOR OF REINVENTION: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE NEW CHINESE DIGITAL ECONOMY, out soon from

@ColumbiaUP

. Thank you, Lin 💖

My hand holding a paperback copy of The Labor of Reinvention

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Elettra Bietti

@Elibietti

Jan 9

✨2023 feels much like 2022 but for one - important - detail: I'll be moving back to Boston and starting a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in Law and Computer Science at

@NUSL

and

@KhouryCollege

in July!! ✨

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