The labor of disruption and repair in healthcare. Read on Points

The best way to describe what automation means today might be: machines upfront, people in the back. Read on Slate

Chis Ramsaroop of Justicia for Migrant Workers writes about the impacts of automation and surveillance on farm workers. Read on Points

An academic workshop on data-driven technologies in organizational context. Read more

"AI in Context" shows how automated and AI technologies are reconfiguring work in small family-owned farms and grocery stores. Read more

Building off the research for her book Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work, Data & Society Researcher Alex Rosenblat explains algorithmic management in the gig-economy. "Data and algorithms are present... Read on The New York Times

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used across multiple sectors and people often refer to its function as "magic." In this blogpost, D&S researcher Madeleine Clare Elish points out how there's nothing magical abo... Read on Points

D&S advisor Anil Dash discusses Fake Markets that are dominated by few tech companies. Worse, we’ve lost the ability to discern that a short-term benefit for some users that’s subsidized by an unsustainable investment mode... Read on AnilDash.com

"Discriminating Tastes" examines how bias may creep into evaluations of Uber drivers through consumer-sourced rating systems. Read more

Over the summer of 2014, Tim Maughan joined the nomadic design studio Unknown Fields on a three week long journey. They followed a supply chain (in reverse) from South Korea to China to trace the source of our consumer goods. A... Read more