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Pacific StandardD&S researcher Alex Rosenblat published an essay on remote management in Pacific Standard’s The Future of Work and Workers series: Rather than having managers who listen to them and deliver feedback, drivers are managed th... Read on Pacific StandardSeptember 2015 -
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Motherboard"Uber’s access to real-time information about where passengers and drivers are has helped make it one of the most efficient and useful apps produced by Silicon Valley in recent years. But if you open the app assuming you’ll get... Read on MotherboardJuly 2015 -
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Slate"Increasingly, what underlies the debate over the so-called sharing economy is a nascent, bigger battle about how society wants machines coordinating and governing human activity. These apps don't match and route people by hand... Read on SlateJuly 2015 -
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The Los Angeles TimesIn this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Karen Levy discusses mandating electronic monitoring of truck drivers as a way to address unsafe practices in trucking. She argues that "electronic monitoring is an incomplete solution t... Read on The Los Angeles TimesJuly 2014 -
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The Los Angeles TimesD&S fellow Karen Levy writes about the nation's trucking system and the need for reform. Based on her three years of research around trucker's compliance with federal regulations, she argues the changes must address root ec... Read on The Los Angeles TimesJuly 2014