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Invisible Workers, Visible Harms: Perils and Precarities of AI Labour
Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2026), 40 pp.
"Across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, data workers operate within fragmented and opaque supply chains characterised by informal employment arrangements, limited social protections, and a profound imbalance of power between workers, vendors, and the global technology firms that
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Global South Creator Cultures
New Delhi: Routledge India (2026), x, 196 pp.
"Global South Creator Cultures situates creator labour within the geographic specificities of nation-states and examines the working conditions of social media creators and the geographical challenges of their work, offering a four-part conceptual framework for studying creator cultures. Rather than
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Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon’s digital humanitarian infrastructures
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 13 pp.
"This article draws upon a multi-sited ethnography of everyday labour in Lebanon’s digital cash assistance for Syrian refugees. The datafication of humanitarian infrastructures generates technological breakdown, gaps in data and incredibly strict and cumbersome rules. In response to impediments re
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"In this Toolkit, we offer introductory information and concrete recommendations on how to mitigate the risk of discrimination in algorithmic hiring systems on a governance level. This Toolkit addresses policymakers and people working in regulatory bodies, as well as civil society organisations inte
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Digitaler Kolonialismus: Wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen
Deep Insights
München: Beck (2025), 351 pp.
"Das Versprechen der Digitalen Revolution ist die Heilserzählung unsererZeit. Dieses Buch erzählt eine andere Geschichte: Die des digitalen Kolonialismus. Statt physisches Land einzunehmen, erobern die heutigen Kolonialherren den digitalen Raum. Statt nach Gold und Diamanten lassen sie unter mensc
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Atlas der KI: Die materielle Wahrheit hinter den neuen Datenimperien
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2025), 336 pp.
"Ist Künstliche Intelligenz nur eine weitere Entwicklung der Digitalisierung des Alltags, eine effiziente Software in einer „Cloud“? Die KI-Forscherin Kate Crawford entlarvt diese verharmlosende Vorstellung und beleuchtet die konkreten Auswirkungen der Technologie auf die physische Welt. Ihre R
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"In this Toolkit, we offer introductory information and concrete recommendations on how to mitigate the risk of discrimination in algorithmic hiring systems within organisations. This Toolkit addresses HR professionals and recruiting agencies and intends to help them gain a better understanding of w
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"In this Toolkit, we offer introductory information and technical recommendations on how to mitigate the risk of discrimination in software development of systems used for recruitment. This Toolkit addresses software developers and product managers working or interested in this field, and it intends
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Gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa: Findings from a multi-country analysis
Platforms & Society, volume 2 (2025), 16 pp.
"Hopes that the growth of platform work in Africa will provide new opportunities for women’s employment have not yet been matched by empirical research. Based on a five-country survey of workers on 18 platforms across four sectors (ride-hailing, delivery, professional, microtasks), the research re
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Patterns of Inclusion: How Gender Matters for Automation, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
Oxford; 9781032669892 (pbk): Routledge (2025), xiv, 169 pp.
"It is widely presumed that digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) shape the future of work. Yet gender is rarely considered in those debates. This path-breaking book, written by a leading thinker on gender, inclusion and organisations, Elisabeth Kelan, is based on in-depth rese
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Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's cybercrime compounds
London: Verso Books (2025), 215 pp.
"Running the gamut from the infamous ‘pig butchering’ romance con to sophisticated online extortion and investment fraud, Southeast Asia has emerged as the global hub for cybercrime. Based on years of field research, Scam takes an in-depth look at the history and inner dynamics of the region’s
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Intelligence artificielle et emploi en Afrique: Analyse des impacts de la digitalisation du travail
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 267 pp.
"Ce livre étudie les effets de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) et de la digitalisation sur l’emploi en Afrique, en usant d’une méthodologie à deux articulations. D’une part, l’analyse des effets directs de l’IA : destruction d’emplois traditionnels dans des secteurs-clés (agricult
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Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work
Big Data & Society, issue April-June (2024), 12 pp.
"Many workers worldwide rely on digital platforms for their income. In Venezuela, a nation grappling with extreme inflation and where most of the workforce is self-employed, data production platforms for machine learning have emerged as a viable opportunity for many to earn an income in US dollars.
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Mentorship toolkit: Creating sustainable business and funding models with open source AI
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); FAIR Forward - Artificial Intelligence for All (2024), 48 pp.
"This toolkit is designed to help you create and run a successful mentorship program that will support and empower opensource AI entrepreneurs to develop sustainable businesses and funding models for their projects. Open source AI is a rapidly growing field that offers many opportunities for innovat
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Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets
Big Data & Society (2024), 19 pp.
"Online labour markets (OLMs) are a vital source of income for globally diverse and dispersed freelancers. Despite their promise of neutrality, OLMs are known to perpetuate hiring discrimination, vested in how OLMs are designed and what kinds of interactions they enable between freelancers and hirer
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Performing Technocapitalism
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Hans Böckler Stiftung (2024), 298 pp.
"In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev
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Fairwork Chile Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy.
Santiago; Oxford: Fairwork (2024), 35 pp.
