Vidminas Vizgirda

"You are you and the app. There's nobody else.": Building Worker-Designed Data Institutions within Platform Hegemony

Information asymmetries create extractive, often harmful relationships between platform workers (e.g., Uber or Deliveroo drivers) and their algorithmic managers. Recent HCI studies have put forward more equitable platform designs but leave open questions about the social and technical infrastructures required to suppo…