DeepLab PhD researcher Wagner Guilherme Alves da Silva recently presented his research at the University of Oxford, exploring Instagram, aspiration, and platform labour among personal cleaners in Brazil and the Philippines.

@erc.europa.eu @ucddublin.bsky.social
#DeepLab #DigitalLabour

Modern digital platforms mirror old hierarchies: replaceable users generate value while control and ownership remain out of reach.
By Akif Ali Hayat

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/03-Feb-2026/...

#digitallabour #SocialMedia #inequality #attention #economy #algorithmic #online #surveillance

How Social Media Became The New Factory: Attention As Unpaid Digital Labour Social media exploits attention like labour, maintaining inequality through algorithms, surveillance, and digital replaceability

Social media extracts attention like labour, turning endless scrolling into unpaid work under constant algorithmic surveillance.
By Akif Ali Hayat

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/03-Feb-2026/...

#digitallabour #SocialMedia #inequality #attention #economy #algorithmic #online #surveillance

💭Stephanie Grasser (JUKUS) explores the ILO’s Global Policy Tracker, and why legislation alone doesn’t show whether workers are truly protected.

👉www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activ...

#PlatformWork #DigitalLabour #FutureOfWork #WorkerProtection

Book Review - How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy - Stratheia Durand’s techno-feudalism thesis, revealing how digital platforms create dependence, extract rents, and reshape modern capitalism.

Gig workers may appear “independent,” but algorithmic management dictates every aspect of their work. Autonomy is an illusion—dependency is engineered.
#GigEconomy #AlgorithmicControl #DigitalLabour
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#citizenscience reading club

What if citizen science isn’t always democratic?

Riley & Mason-Wilkes reveal “dark citizen science” — hidden, unpaid digital labour like Google’s reCAPTCHA.

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#Ethics #AI #DigitalLabour

This chapter, #Unionisation and #DigitalLabour, will be published in 2026 in the ‘Sage Handbook of Digital Labour’. @etui.bsky.social
It argues that #platformunionism has not yet crystallised into a dominant associational form
#PlatformEconomy #LabourStudies #FutureOfWork

Indonesia Fairwork report launches 25 Sept!
We’ll dive into what platform workers are facing and what decent work should look like.
Save the date
#Indonesia #Fairwork #GigWork #DigitalLabour

Conference Agenda Download the full conference agenda here: Commumication and Capital(ism)_Full Conference AgendaDownload

Back at the start. European Sociological Association's mid-term conference, research network 18. #Media #Communication #DigitalLabour I present on Academia as a public sphere. Hoping to get collective writing on a manifest going #AcademicSky #AcademicFreedom rn18esa.wordpress.com/conference-a...

Fairwork’s Tobias Kuttler joined cnbcafrica to unpack findings from our South Africa report—spotlighting fairness (or the lack of it) in the gig economy.

Watch here: www.cnbcafrica.com/media/gdPxmr...

#Fairwork #GigWork #DigitalLabour #SouthAfrica

Fairwork’s Mark Graham speaks to Globalnyt about the invisible labour powering today’s AI systems—and why tech firms must do better.
Read (in Danish): globalnyt.dk/professor-ka...

#AI #GigWork #Fairwork #DigitalLabour

Have you read our US report?

Fairwork scored 11 major platforms on worker fairness. Not one passed the halfway mark.
fair.work/en/fw/public...
#Fairwork #GigWork #DigitalLabour #US #WorkerRights

OnlyFans Business Studie: 6 Fakten zum echten Job dahinter Was steckt wirklich hinter dem OnlyFans Business? Neue Supercreator Studie zeigt: Erfolg kommt von Strategie und harter Arbeit, nicht nur von schönen Bildern.

OnlyFans ist kein Selfie-Spielplatz, sondern ein knallhartes Business.
Eine neue Studie zeigt: Der Großteil der Einnahmen kommt aus Chats, nicht aus Bildern.

👉 german-adult-news.com/news/onlyfan...

#DigitalLabour #OnlyFans #DigitalEntrepreneur #CreatorWork

Postdoctoral Researcher Position – Department of Sociology – Working at Bishop's The postdoctoral researcher will develop a research program aligned with the objectives of the project. They will contribute to both qualitative and quantitative data collection, assist with data coding and analysis, and support knowledge mobilization activities.

The postdoctoral researcher will join the Worker Experiences in the Age of Generative AI: A Study of Cognitive Labour in Canada project.

Deadline: 5:00 p.m. EST, August 5th

Please share!
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#Postdoc #AIandWork #DigitalLabour #SSHRC #FRQ #GenerativeAI

Fairwork is featured in the UN’s latest report on AI and human rights!

Our research highlights how AI supply chains affect vulnerable workers—and why fair AI must start with fair work.

Read the report: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

#Fairwork #AI #HumanRights #PlatformWork #DigitalLabour #UN

Now it's all official, I can let people know that I have been awarded an #ERCAdG ERC Advanced Grant for my LivePlatforms project to critically examine the actors involved in determining how - or whether - people make livelihoods in the platform economy.
#PlatformWork #DigitalLabour

Read the full paper here: www.tinyurl.com/disinformationthinkpiece

@fesonline.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @manchester.ac.uk

#Disinformation
#FeministResearch #PolicyReform #DigitalLabour
#GenderJustice #GlobalSouthVoices #TechandSociety#MediaLiteracy

Up to 435M people work on cloud platforms without basic labour protections.
This month, the ILO considers a global convention on platform work.
Fairwork’s new report shows why that matters.

Read the Cloudwork Ratings 2025:
fair.work/en/fw/public...
#Cloudwork #DigitalLabour #ILO2024 #Fairwork

🎤 Hear directly from data workers
⚖️ See what justice could look like
🗣️ Speakers include Luc Triangle (ITUC), Mustafa_Qadri (Equidem) — more to be announced

#DigitalLabour #HumanRights #Webinar #AI #ILC2025 #PlatformWork #LabourRights

AI is Rendering The Way We Measure Productivity Obsolete AI, capable of scaling, learning, and producing economic value, should be recognised as a distinct factor of production, digital labour.

A new study posits that AI systems, capable of scaling, learning, and producing economic value, should be recognised as a distinct factor of production - “digital labour.”

Find out what it means here ⬇️
www.digit.fyi/ai-digital-l...
#tech #digitallabour #AILabour

📄 Read the paper: itforchange.net/unbearable-l...

#GigEconomy #PlatformCapitalism #DigitalLabour #ReproductiveLabour #DataExtraction #FeministEconomics

“The CLT worker can’t catch a break!”
New DeepLab takeaway unpacks memes, labour precarity & the digital hustle dream. Read here labdeep.com/takeaways/
Image source - © Brenda Rocha Blossom via Canva.com #DigitalLabour #CLT #DeepLab @erc.europa.eu @ucddublin.bsky.social @jessicamatheus.bsky.social

“I’d love a union.”
“They don’t care about us—just profit.”
“You just hope someone logs on and pays.”

We’re launching our new report on online sex work May 15, 2PM BST.
Join us: wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #SexWorkIsWork #WorkerRights #DigitalLabour

We’ve just dropped the speaker list for our upcoming launch of Platform Sex Work.

These voices are pushing for justice in digital labour—don’t miss the conversation.

📅 15 May
🔗 Register here: wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SexWorkIsWork #PlatformSexWork #FairWork #DigitalLabour

In our latest article, Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan reveals how AI systems are built on the hidden labor of African data workers who endure trauma and exploitation—while Big Tech profits and looks away.

#DigitalLabour #AIExploitation #ContentModeration #PlatformWork #ResponsibleAI #GhostWorkers

📢 On May 20 at 2PM BST, @towardsfairwork.bsky.social will launch the Cloudwork Ratings 2025 — a new report assessing fairness across 16 digital labour platforms.
🔗 Register for the launch event: wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #DigitalLabour #PlatformWork #AIWorkforce #OIIEvents

Say hi to Shilpa
She’s joining the Fairwork team to support interviews, research, data, and project work. We’re so excited to have her with us!
#Fairwork #WelcomeShilpa #DigitalLabour

Fairwork ...

Fairwork is inviting tenders for a Fundraising Consultant to support the financial sustainability of our global research network.

Deadline: 12 May 2025
Details: fair.work/wp-admin/pos...

#Fairwork #Fundraising #Consultancy #DigitalLabour #SocialImpact

Excited to welcome Simone Kadurira as Fairwork’s new Comms Manager!
She’s bringing deep experience in feminist comms + global advocacy—and big energy to our work.

Meet her in this short video and hear what she’s excited to build with us.
#Fairwork #WorkerRights #DigitalLabour #WelcomeSimone

OnlineFirst - "Pressure and praise as an action research methodology: The case of Fairwork" by Mark Graham, Oğuz Alyanak, Alessio Bertolini, Patrick Feuerstein, Tobias Kuttler, Funda Ustek Spilda, and Jonas Valente:

#platformwork #platformeconomy #digitallabour

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