Jake Goldenfein
Biographic Data
| ID | 925932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jake Goldenfein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jake |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldenfein |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDENFEIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0242-8559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Research Genai: Situating Generative Ai in the Scholarly Economy
This paper charts the emergence of a distinct category of research-dedicated GenAI platforms, which we term Research GenAI or RGAI. These platforms are explicitly marketed to a cross-disciplinary academic audience, promising to automate research discovery and writing tasks, such as identifying/summarising published research, writing literature reviews, conducting data analysis, and synthesising findings. RGAI platforms (e.g., Consensus, Elicit, R…
When algorithmic management was new: Engineered standards and the managerial prerogative in Australia
In this article we analyse the significance for critical logistics studies of a neglected chapter in industrial relations history, the introduction of so-called ‘Engineered Standards’ into the Australian food and groceries sector in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We argue that this episode was decisive in establishing the conditions which have allowed algorithmic management to flourish in Australia in more recent years. We argue for the signific…
The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State
In situations ranging from border control to policing and welfare, governments are using automated facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect taxes, prevent crime, police cities and control immigration. FRT involves the processing of a person's facial image, usually for identification, categorisation or counting. This ambitious handbook brings together a diverse group of legal, computer, communications, and social and political science schola…
Managed Sovereigns: How Inconsistent Accounts of the Human Rationalize Platform Advertising
Platform business models rest on an uneven foundation. Online behavioral advertising drives revenue for companies like Meta, Google, and Amazon, with privacy self-management governing the flows of personal data that help platforms dominate advertising markets. We argue that this area of platform capitalism is reinforced through a process whereby seemingly incompatible conceptions of human subjects are codified and enacted in law and industrial ar…
Tech money in civil society: Whose interests do digital rights organisations represent
This article explores philanthropic interactions between ‘Big Tech’ and digital rights civil society organizations (DRCSOs) to enhance understanding of the alignment and misalignment of interests between these groups. ‘Big Tech’ wields political influence by distributing cash to research and policy organizations. Academic research supporting ‘Big Tech’ business practices is marshalled to support their political lobbying efforts, while civil socie…
Google Scholar – Platforming the scholarly economy
Google Scholar has become an important player in the scholarly economy. Whereas typical academic publishers sell bibliometrics, analytics and ranking products, Alphabet, through Google Scholar, provides "free" tools for academic search and scholarly evaluation that have made it central to academic practice. Leveraging political imperatives for open access publishing, Google Scholar has managed to intermediate data flows between researchers, resea…
Design Choices: Mechanism Design and Platform Capitalism
Mechanism design is a form of optimization developed in economic theory. It casts economists as institutional engineers, choosing a outcome and then arranging a set of market rules and conditions to achieve it. The toolkit from mechanism design is widely used in economics, policymaking, and now in building and managing online environments. Mechanism design has become one of the most pervasive yet inconspicuous influences on the digital mediation …
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W
Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism
Mechanism design is a form of optimization developed in economic theory. It casts economists as institutional engineers, choosing an outcome and then arranging a set of market rules and conditions to achieve it. The toolkit from mechanism design is widely used in economics, policymaking, and now in building and managing online environments. Mechanism design has become one of the most pervasive yet inconspicuous influences on the digital mediation…
Legal Engineering on the Blockchain: ‘Smart Contracts’ as Legal Conduct
Curating a Museum of Legal Accidents
This piece introduces the symposium issue ‘Law and Its Accidents’. The issue emerged from the Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory, which took place at the Melbourne Law School on 15–16 December 2011. The theme of the symposium responded to two provocations: first, the anxieties to do with accidents of technology such as that surrounding the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan in 2011; and second, Paul Virilio’s w…
Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism
Mechanism design is a form of optimization developed in economic theory. It casts economists as institutional engineers, choosing an outcome and then arranging a set of market rules and conditions to achieve it. The toolkit from mechanism design is widely used in economics, policymaking, and now in building and managing online environments. Mechanism design has become one of the most pervasive yet inconspicuous influences on the digital mediation…
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W
Legal Engineering on the Blockchain: ‘Smart Contracts’ as Legal Conduct
Curating a Museum of Legal Accidents
This piece introduces the symposium issue ‘Law and Its Accidents’. The issue emerged from the Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory, which took place at the Melbourne Law School on 15–16 December 2011. The theme of the symposium responded to two provocations: first, the anxieties to do with accidents of technology such as that surrounding the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan in 2011; and second, Paul Virilio’s w…
Legal Engineering on the Blockchain: ‘Smart Contracts’ as Legal Conduct
Design Choices: Mechanism Design and Platform Capitalism
Mechanism design is a form of optimization developed in economic theory. It casts economists as institutional engineers, choosing a outcome and then arranging a set of market rules and conditions to achieve it. The toolkit from mechanism design is widely used in economics, policymaking, and now in building and managing online environments. Mechanism design has become one of the most pervasive yet inconspicuous influences on the digital mediation …
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W
Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism
Mechanism design is a form of optimization developed in economic theory. It casts economists as institutional engineers, choosing an outcome and then arranging a set of market rules and conditions to achieve it. The toolkit from mechanism design is widely used in economics, policymaking, and now in building and managing online environments. Mechanism design has become one of the most pervasive yet inconspicuous influences on the digital mediation…
Google Scholar – Platforming the scholarly economy
Google Scholar has become an important player in the scholarly economy. Whereas typical academic publishers sell bibliometrics, analytics and ranking products, Alphabet, through Google Scholar, provides "free" tools for academic search and scholarly evaluation that have made it central to academic practice. Leveraging political imperatives for open access publishing, Google Scholar has managed to intermediate data flows between researchers, resea…
Managed Sovereigns: How Inconsistent Accounts of the Human Rationalize Platform Advertising
Platform business models rest on an uneven foundation. Online behavioral advertising drives revenue for companies like Meta, Google, and Amazon, with privacy self-management governing the flows of personal data that help platforms dominate advertising markets. We argue that this area of platform capitalism is reinforced through a process whereby seemingly incompatible conceptions of human subjects are codified and enacted in law and industrial ar…
Tech money in civil society: Whose interests do digital rights organisations represent
This article explores philanthropic interactions between ‘Big Tech’ and digital rights civil society organizations (DRCSOs) to enhance understanding of the alignment and misalignment of interests between these groups. ‘Big Tech’ wields political influence by distributing cash to research and policy organizations. Academic research supporting ‘Big Tech’ business practices is marshalled to support their political lobbying efforts, while civil socie…
The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State
In situations ranging from border control to policing and welfare, governments are using automated facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect taxes, prevent crime, police cities and control immigration. FRT involves the processing of a person's facial image, usually for identification, categorisation or counting. This ambitious handbook brings together a diverse group of legal, computer, communications, and social and political science schola…
Research Genai: Situating Generative Ai in the Scholarly Economy
This paper charts the emergence of a distinct category of research-dedicated GenAI platforms, which we term Research GenAI or RGAI. These platforms are explicitly marketed to a cross-disciplinary academic audience, promising to automate research discovery and writing tasks, such as identifying/summarising published research, writing literature reviews, conducting data analysis, and synthesising findings. RGAI platforms (e.g., Consensus, Elicit, R…
When algorithmic management was new: Engineered standards and the managerial prerogative in Australia
In this article we analyse the significance for critical logistics studies of a neglected chapter in industrial relations history, the introduction of so-called ‘Engineered Standards’ into the Australian food and groceries sector in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We argue that this episode was decisive in establishing the conditions which have allowed algorithmic management to flourish in Australia in more recent years. We argue for the signific…
Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (3 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works) · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance (3 works) · Law (3 works)