Attila Márton
Biographic Data
| ID | 290583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Attila Márton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Attila |
| FAMILY NAME | Márton |
| SIGNATURE | MÁRTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8947-6675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Becoming a gig worker: An exploratory life course study of inbound career trajectories in the UK gig economy
Research provides insights into the characteristics and conditions of gig work, but rarely into how individuals enter it or its long-term implications for careers. We present an exploratory social sequence analysis of UK gig workers to examine how occupational histories and types of gig work are connected. By identifying six distinct career trajectories leading up to participation in the gig economy, our findings suggest that a worker’s preceding…
The four deaths of Couchsurfing and the changing ecology of the web
This paper describes the history of Couchsurfing, a platform matching free, peer-to-peer hospitality launched in 2004, as a series of four deaths and resurrections. The platform was first brought back to life by its members, in the spirit of open collaboration, then by its leaders, in an effort to legitimize the platform as a US-based charity, then by Silicon Valley investors, seeking to mold it into a profitable startup, and finally by private i…
Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age
Book review of: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age, by Davide Sisto, translated by Alice Kilgarriff. Medford, MA: Polity, 2021. 160 pp. $64.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781509545032
What Dead-and-Dying Platforms Do for Internet Studies: Situating Technological Failure, Digital Afterlife, and the Web That Was
This panel explores internet histories through the lens of “platform death” as a way of understanding how digital communities grapple with technological failure, power dynamics, and the divergent notions of the digital afterlife. Collectively, the contributions address the cultural, geopolitical, economic, and socio-legal repercussions of what happens when various platforms fail, decline, or expire. We bring together five presentations that draw …
Sure, I saw sales, but it consumed me” from resilience to erosion in the digital hustle economy
With increasing socioeconomic precarity and ecological threat, resilience has become the individual responsibility and moral obligation of the neoliberal subject. Digital labor platforms are a clear expression and beneficiary of this development, offering hustling as a way to gain resilience as a micro-entrepreneur. However, we present evidence to the contrary, demonstrating how hustling in the digital economy erodes resilience on a systemic leve…
De/Contextualizing Information: The Digitization of Video Editing Practices at the BBC
The pervasive diffusion of digital media has introduced profound changes to social practices, challenging established notions of embeddedness and context. Based on our case study on the BBC's Digital Media Initiative, we further explore these changes in the domain of video craft editing for television broadcast brought about by the digitization of the video production process. As craft editing is mediated by digital images, its contextual embedde…
Governing social practice: Technology and institutional change
A theory of digital objects
Digital objects are marked by a limited set of variable yet generic attributes such as editability, interactivity, openness and distributedness. As digital objects diffuse throughout the institutional fabric, these attributes and the information-based operations and procedures out of which they are sustained install themselves at the heart of social practice. The entities and processes that constitute the stuff of social practice are thereby rend…
Self-Referential Technology and the Growth of Information: From Techniques to Technology to the Technology of Technology
Dieser Artikel ist ein Versuch, Technologie selbst als ein Gebiet soziologischer Forschung zu erarbeiten. Bis jetzt wurde Technologie zumeist als ein nicht-soziales Artefakt gehandhabt und nur ihr Einfluss auf die moderne Gesellschaft war für Sozialforscher von Interesse. Diese herkömmliche Sichtweise basiert auf der Cartesianischen Subjekt/Objekt Dichotomie in der Form Gesellschaft/Technologie. Gegenwärtige technologische Entwicklungen widerlege…
Governing social practice: Technology and institutional change
Sure, I saw sales, but it consumed me” from resilience to erosion in the digital hustle economy
With increasing socioeconomic precarity and ecological threat, resilience has become the individual responsibility and moral obligation of the neoliberal subject. Digital labor platforms are a clear expression and beneficiary of this development, offering hustling as a way to gain resilience as a micro-entrepreneur. However, we present evidence to the contrary, demonstrating how hustling in the digital economy erodes resilience on a systemic leve…
Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age
Book review of: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age, by Davide Sisto, translated by Alice Kilgarriff. Medford, MA: Polity, 2021. 160 pp. $64.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781509545032
De/Contextualizing Information: The Digitization of Video Editing Practices at the BBC
The pervasive diffusion of digital media has introduced profound changes to social practices, challenging established notions of embeddedness and context. Based on our case study on the BBC's Digital Media Initiative, we further explore these changes in the domain of video craft editing for television broadcast brought about by the digitization of the video production process. As craft editing is mediated by digital images, its contextual embedde…
Self-Referential Technology and the Growth of Information: From Techniques to Technology to the Technology of Technology
Dieser Artikel ist ein Versuch, Technologie selbst als ein Gebiet soziologischer Forschung zu erarbeiten. Bis jetzt wurde Technologie zumeist als ein nicht-soziales Artefakt gehandhabt und nur ihr Einfluss auf die moderne Gesellschaft war für Sozialforscher von Interesse. Diese herkömmliche Sichtweise basiert auf der Cartesianischen Subjekt/Objekt Dichotomie in der Form Gesellschaft/Technologie. Gegenwärtige technologische Entwicklungen widerlege…
A theory of digital objects
Digital objects are marked by a limited set of variable yet generic attributes such as editability, interactivity, openness and distributedness. As digital objects diffuse throughout the institutional fabric, these attributes and the information-based operations and procedures out of which they are sustained install themselves at the heart of social practice. The entities and processes that constitute the stuff of social practice are thereby rend…
Governing social practice: Technology and institutional change
De/Contextualizing Information: The Digitization of Video Editing Practices at the BBC
The pervasive diffusion of digital media has introduced profound changes to social practices, challenging established notions of embeddedness and context. Based on our case study on the BBC's Digital Media Initiative, we further explore these changes in the domain of video craft editing for television broadcast brought about by the digitization of the video production process. As craft editing is mediated by digital images, its contextual embedde…
What Dead-and-Dying Platforms Do for Internet Studies: Situating Technological Failure, Digital Afterlife, and the Web That Was
This panel explores internet histories through the lens of “platform death” as a way of understanding how digital communities grapple with technological failure, power dynamics, and the divergent notions of the digital afterlife. Collectively, the contributions address the cultural, geopolitical, economic, and socio-legal repercussions of what happens when various platforms fail, decline, or expire. We bring together five presentations that draw …
Sure, I saw sales, but it consumed me” from resilience to erosion in the digital hustle economy
With increasing socioeconomic precarity and ecological threat, resilience has become the individual responsibility and moral obligation of the neoliberal subject. Digital labor platforms are a clear expression and beneficiary of this development, offering hustling as a way to gain resilience as a micro-entrepreneur. However, we present evidence to the contrary, demonstrating how hustling in the digital economy erodes resilience on a systemic leve…
The four deaths of Couchsurfing and the changing ecology of the web
This paper describes the history of Couchsurfing, a platform matching free, peer-to-peer hospitality launched in 2004, as a series of four deaths and resurrections. The platform was first brought back to life by its members, in the spirit of open collaboration, then by its leaders, in an effort to legitimize the platform as a US-based charity, then by Silicon Valley investors, seeking to mold it into a profitable startup, and finally by private i…
Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age
Book review of: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age, by Davide Sisto, translated by Alice Kilgarriff. Medford, MA: Polity, 2021. 160 pp. $64.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781509545032
Becoming a gig worker: An exploratory life course study of inbound career trajectories in the UK gig economy
Research provides insights into the characteristics and conditions of gig work, but rarely into how individuals enter it or its long-term implications for careers. We present an exploratory social sequence analysis of UK gig workers to examine how occupational histories and types of gig work are connected. By identifying six distinct career trajectories leading up to participation in the gig economy, our findings suggest that a worker’s preceding…
Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Sharing Economy and Platforms (3 works) · Business (2 works)