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Designing and Using Platforms: Digital Skills, Creative Work and Platform Builders: Designing and Using Platforms: Digital Skills, Creative Work and Platform Builders
- Zsolt Ződi (Senior Researcher, Institute of the Information Society, University of Public Service, Hungary)
Digitalization affects the work of different employees in different ways. Drawing on research that has previously been received when analysing digital divides among citizens, this paper examines what of digital media user groups can be distinguished among Finnish employees, how they differ from each other according to background factors and how differences in use are reflected in different...
While working life studies have mostly focused on the precarious aspects of work mediated via online labor platforms, this presentation follows a different approach and examines the potential of such work to benefit professionals by enhancing their job quality and learning. The qualitative, practice-based study applies the concept ‘co-creation’ to examine how a social form of creating value...
This presentation draws attention to the increasing concerns related to ICT-enabled surveillance during telework[1], which skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. New monitoring tools were often diving deep into workers home settings, in this way jeopardizing their privacy and labour rights. The topic of staff surveillance is not likely to disappear even if the majority of employees return...
In order to better understand how digital platforms are reshaping the nature of future work and employment, it is worth calling the attentions to the relative shortage of research on the social-cultural characteristics of the digital platform builders. The mainstream organizational and labor process literature is focusing on measuring the effects of digital platforms on the work itself, on the...