Waiting for robots
The Ever-Elusive Myth of Automation and the Global Exploitation of Digital Labor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4354828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonio A Casilli (0000-0003-2025-1627, Télécom Paris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 57 |
| Pages | 112-133 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologias (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1517-4522 • E-ISSN: 1807-0337 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/15174522-114092 |
| OpenAlex | W3200941017 |
| SCIELO_PID | S1517-45222021005700112 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 17 |
Discourses of robotic replacement and of the end of work have survived to the present day. But more and more voices now challenge the very idea that technological innovation is necessarily conducive to job loss. According to several studies, new high-tech jobs is accompanied by an even bigger low-tech job creation, and AI can be expected to be no exception. Based on new evidence about the role of human-annotated data in machine learning and algorithmic solutions, a new generation of scholars are now studying the germane phenomena of "heteromation", "automation last mile" or, more simply, platform-based digital labor needed to generate, train, verify, and sometimes modify in real-time huge quantities of examples that machines are supposed to learn from. Digital labor designates datified and taskified human activities. The first type of platform occupation ison-demand labor. The second type of platform-based digital labor ismicrowork. Finally, the third type of digital labor issocial networked labor
Automation · Business · Economics · Industrial organization · Labour economics · Robot · Work (physics · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Innovation, Technology, and Society · Artificial Intelligence
Remaking the landscape of scientific expertise
Theorising Digital Dispossession
The coopetition of human intelligence and artificial intelligence through the prism of irrationality
Click farm as platform labor
We” Think We Are Philip K. Dick
Microwork as a development project
Uberização e plataformização do trabalho no Brasil
Trabalho em plataformas digitais
Plataformas de fazendas de cliques
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction
Transparent Informality
A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings
Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism
Philosophy of Manufactures
Digital labour and development
On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
Why we should have seen that coming
Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries
The Brazilian Workers in Amazon Mechanical Turk
The trainer, the verifier, the imitator
On the Verges of Overconfidence
Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation
Free Labor
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |