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What is AI Doing to Job Quality? Platformization, Fissured Workplaces and Dispersion
Debates about AI and labour are focused on job losses, yet give little consideration to how this technology affects actual working experiences. This chapter examines the impact of AI on job quality th ...
Job Quality in a Turbulent Era, 2026
Los micro-trabajadores detrás de la inteligencia artificial: Explorando nuevos sujetos digitales y sus precariedades en el mundo laboral
En los entornos digitales, la producción de valor no solo involucra a desarrolladores e ingenieros informáticos, sino a una gama más amplia de sujetos digitales —desde usuarios hasta trabajadores ...
¿Somos Sujetos Digitales? Tecnopromesas, Saberes Psi y Digitalizaci{ó}n de la Vida Cotidiana, 2026
Guidelines for reporting social and personal network data: the case of the journal REDES
This study aims to describe the guidelines used in articles published in the journal REDES to report relational data. A total of 363 articles published between 2002 and 2023 were analyzed. To do this, ...
Redes. Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales, 2026
Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America
This article examines the organisational and geographical forces that shape the supply chains of artificial intelligence (AI) through outsourced and offshored data work. Bridging sociological theories ...
New Political Economy, 2025
The role of digital platforms in market coordination through quality valuations. The case of restaurants
How do digital platforms affect coordination in the restaurant market? In particular, how do they reshape firms’ positions in the quality space and their dependence on both consumers’ valuations a ...
European Journal of Sociology, 2025
Uninvited Protagonists: The Networked Agency of Venezuelan Platform Data Workers
Data workers use digital platforms to perform on-demand online tasks for technology industries, in a competitive landscape that extends beyond national borders and drives down remunerations. Using a m ...
New Technology, Work and Employment, 2025
The dual footprint of artificial intelligence: environmental and social impacts across the globe
This article introduces the concept of the ‘dual footprint’ as a heuristic device to capture the commonalities and interdependencies between the different impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) o ...
Globalizations, 2025
Globalization in water infrastructure: a network of public–private strategic alliances
Purpose Water is a key sector with major repercussions on health, the natural environment and the economy. Public ownership and control of water infrastructures are the norm in most countries. Yet so ...
Critical Perspectives on International Business, 2025
Global Inequalities in the Production of Artificial Intelligence
The recent emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a transformative force across industries has directed attention toward potential job losses, as machines may assume tasks currently performed by ...
The Handbook of Digital Labor, 2025
The digital labour of artificial intelligence in Latin America: a comparison of Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela
The current hype around artificial intelligence (AI) conceals the substantial human intervention underlying its development. This article lifts the veil on the precarious and low-paid ‘data workersâ ...
Globalizations, 2025