https://allegralaboratory.net/review-uberland-how-algorithms-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-work-by-alex-rosenblat/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Mon, 16 May 2022 20:00:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/review-uberland-how-algorithms-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-work-by-alex-rosenblat/#comment-109434 Mon, 18 Oct 2021 05:46:55 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=33741#comment-109434 At the end of the day, she is the one with the capital and mobility to be a regular Uber passenger, and this gives her power over the drivers, whether this is a power of representation in her ethnography, or the power of a 5-star driver review.
Where does she say, that all her experiences as an ethnographer is complicit with giving 5-star reviews or that her drivers are inclined to understand her presence as part of a power relationship? At what point does she try to be deceptive in her intentions? How would you handle the research?

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