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algorithmic control

Description: A form of workplace management in which algorithms assign, monitor, evaluate, or direct workers, especially in platform and digitally mediated organizations.
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Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control
2019 · Katherine C. Kellogg, Melissa A. Valentine, et al. · Academy of Management Annals · 2,679
Dependence and precarity in the platform economy
2020 · Juliet B. Schor, William Attwood-Charles, et al. · Theory and Society · 542
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The black box society: the secret algorithms that control money and information
2015 · Choice Reviews Online · 533
Algorithmic Management of Work on Online Labor Platforms: When Matching Meets Control
2021 · Mareike Möhlmann, Lior Zalmanson, et al. · MIS Quarterly · 512
Governing Algorithms
2015 · Malte Ziewitz · Science Technology & Human Values · 391
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Predict and Surveil
2020 · Sarah Brayne · 320
The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, and Power
2017 · Ryan Calo, Alex Rosenblat · SSRN Electronic Journal · 297
Expanding the Locus of Resistance: Understanding the Co-constitution of Control and Resistance in the Gig Economy
2021 · Lindsey D. Cameron, Hatim Rahman · Organization Science · 268
Algorithmic control and gig workers: a legitimacy perspective of Uber drivers
2021 · Martin Wiener, W. Alec Cram, et al. · European Journal of Information Systems · 248
Examining the Impact of Algorithmic Control on Uber Drivers’ Technostress
2022 · W. Alec Cram, Martin Wiener, et al. · Journal of Management Information Systems · 241
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The Ethical Debate about the Gig Economy: A Review and Critical Analysis
2020 · Zhi Ming Tan, Nikita Aggarwal, et al. · Technology in Society · 223
The Black Box Society: the secret algorithms that control money and information
2016 · Kyle Kubler · Information Communication & Society · 175
The combine will tell the truth: On precision agriculture and algorithmic rationality
2019 · Christopher Miles · Big Data & Society · 173
We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
2017 · John Cheney-Lippold · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 166
Algorithmic HRM control in the gig economy: The app‐worker perspective
2023 · James Duggan, Ronan Carbery, et al. · Human Resource Management · 160
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Über-Alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig Economy
2021 · Paul Glavin, Alex Bierman, et al. · Work and Occupations · 156
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Brands and Instagram: Point, tap, swipe, glance
2015 · Nicholas Carah, Michelle Shaul · Mobile Media & Communication · 143
Tackling the Algorithmic Control Crisis -- the Technical, Legal, and Ethical Challenges of Research into Algorithmic Agents
2025 · Bodo, B., Helberger, N., et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 132
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Towards Algorithmic Experience
2018 · Oscar Alvarado, Annika Waern · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 128
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour
2022 · Lutfun Nahar Lata, Jasmine Burdon, et al. · Sociology Compass · 126
Resisting algorithmic control: Understanding the rise and variety of platform worker mobilisations
2022 · Lorenzo Cini · New Technology Work and Employment · 108
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Who is pulling the strings in the platform economy? Accounting for the dark and unexpected sides of algorithmic control
2021 · Edouard Pignot · Organization · 108
Open Data, Open Government und Online Partizipation in der Smart City. Vom Informationsobjekt über den deliberativen Turn zur Algorithmokratie?
2017 · Norbert Kersting · Springer eBooks · 105
Etappen algorithmischer Gouvernementalität: Zur rechnerischen Einhegung sozialer Flüchtigkeit
2017 · Nikolaus Lehner · Springer eBooks · 102
Recommendation Systems as Technologies of the Self: Algorithmic Control and the Formation of Music Taste
2017 · Nedim Karakayali, Burc Kostem, et al. · Theory Culture & Society · 94
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