Assistant Professor @sjtu1896/ PhD in @KingsCollegeLon Research in digital transformation of work and organization# Platform workers# Digital economy# Algorithm
New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.
Skills do not evolve as higher levels of a fixed set of abilities. New skills emerge with development, from James J. Heckman, Haihan Tian, Jin Zhou, and Zijian Zhang https://t.co/fTe1KPFS8z
The word, 草台班子( caotai banzi), originally describes an amateur, makeshift theater group performing on rudimentary countryside stages. Over the past few years, it has steadily risen in popularity to describe a wide range of unprofessional, ill-prepared, or poorly coordinated institutions — football clubs, workplaces, and even foreign governments.
On Chinese social media, 2025 gave rise to the phrase “the world is just a ragtag troupe.”
Read more: https://t.co/1aUsAoNJi9
📣 Submit your paper to the @BJSociology Conference!
The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.
Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.
https://t.co/dYAkwFaHIR
"This article identifies three dimensions of everyday algorithmic resistance forged and adopted by food-delivery drivers in response to strict algorithmic control and precarity, which include dodge-algorithm, leverage-algorithm and subvert-algorithm" https://t.co/Yz93VcZVpk
it provides a typology of algorithmic resistance(subvert, leverage and undermine algorithms/suggest everyday algorithmic resistance is a dynamic and interactive process/algorithmic resistance can reinforce existing power structure
My new work comes out: Weapons of the Riders: Everyday Algorithmic Resistance of Migrant Food-Delivery Workers in China’s Gig Economy https://t.co/zeXkWuZxaU
Next week I'll be in Oxford for this workshop on Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI studies. I'll talk about Platform Dependency, how platform studies are overlooking dependency theories and the importance of Latin American dependency theories
https://t.co/is6pbz3LgR
Just received my copy of Richard Hyman’s new book - ‘The author who revolutionised the study of industrial relations in the 1970s returns with this ….masterful introduction to the past, present and future of employment relations’ @BUIRAonline@WorkEqualities@EJIR_News@WESjnl
#CallforPapers: The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation Series
#UrbanStudies Journal invites contributions that explore #ArmedConflict and #violence in urban contexts.
Further details are available on our website:
https://t.co/DHaH3DkVdY
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💥 New book chapter! Free Labor and Data Labor in the Digital Economy, in the amazing SAGE Handbook of Data and Society, edited by Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, and Tone Walford
https://t.co/y8qtJeE57d
‘@tbonini and @EmilianoTrere's book is a highly readable intervention: seldom polemical, it nonetheless forcefully reasserts an investment in humanity in the face of the algorithm.’
Craig Gent reviews Algorithms of Resistance below.
https://t.co/IkQTNcn8cw
The exploitative conditions faced by China's delivery drivers expose deep inequalities in the gig economy, urging a re-examination of worker protections and social equity in a rapidly evolving labour market.
https://t.co/1txwlFFSRg