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Digit Debates: Is music streaming bad for musicians? Problems of evidence and argument

4 November 2020

Professor David Hesmondhalgh considers the claim that that music streaming has made it harder than before for musicians to make a living from music.

Digit Debates: The digital lives of black women in Britain: Between creativity, community and commodification

11 November 2020

Dr Francesca Sobande explores the tensions between digital culture’s communal, counter-cultural, and commercial qualities, focusing on how these matters are shaped by intersecting anti-blackness, sexism, and other forms of entangled oppression. 

Digit Debates: What do platforms do? Beyond the pro-con debate on gig labour

18 November 2020

Professor Juliet Schor discusses new research on platforms in the post-covid period to ask—what do platforms do? 

Digit Debates: A typlology of crowdwork platforms

25 November 2020

Professor Debra Howcroft provides a timely review and classification of crowdwork.

Digit Debates: Perspectives on the future in the sociology of work

2 December 2020

Professor Duncan Gallie considers what we can learn from past predictions about the future of work.

Digit Debates: How can online employee reviews help firms to innovate?

9 December 2020

Nachiappan Subramanian discusses how online employee reviews can help firms innovate as part of the Digit Debates series.

Digit Debates: Decoding employment status

3 February 2021

Simon Deakin discusses the classification of work relations.

Digit Debates: Why the world needs to worry about the ethics of AI

10 February 2021

Simon Greenman discusses the risks and challenges of AI and argues that it can only live up to its potential benefits if people can trust in its use.

Digit Debates: The geo-politics of artificial intelligence

24 February 2021

Alexandra Mousavizadeh discusses Tortoise’s Global AI Index, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence.

Digit Debates: Protecting workers in the digital age

3 March 2021

Janine Berg argues that debates on the future of work have focused far too much attention on possible job losses, ignoring the deterioration in job quality experienced by many of the world’s workers.

Digit Debates: What to do? Almost everything about us, is happening without us

10 March 2021

Dee Masters and Robin Allen QC discuss their recent work mapping the way current equality and employment laws apply to the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the workplace.

Digit Debates: Algorithmic workplace surveillance

17 March 2021

Aida Ponce Del Castillo discusses Algorithmic workplace surveillance.

Digit Debates: Technology & Transformations in US Retail

5 May 2021

Professor Chris Tilly and Professor Chris Benner consider the broader workplace implications of the growth of e-commerce, particularly the recent grocery and meal e-commerce surge.

Digit Debates: Platform firms and the restructuring of work

12 May 2021

Professor Anke Hassel discusses how platform firms are contributing to the restructuring of work.

Digit Debates: Automation and the End of Work?

19 May 2021

Dr Aaron Benanav considers the relationship between automation and demand for labour.

Digit Debates: Live from the farm: How Chinese video apps are changing the global development landscape

26 May 2021

Professor Xiaolan Fu explores how Thai durian growers and Rwandan coffee sellers are becoming microcelebrities in China and elsewhere using short form video apps.

Digit Debates: Pandemic, Performance and the Pace of Work

9 June 2021

Professor Abigail Marks discusses findings from her Working@Home research project following the experiences of 80 ‘new’ homeworkers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Digit Debates: How does labour market digitalization affect social mobility?

16 June 2021

Professor Vili Lehdonvirta discusses research examining whether labour market digitalization could be decoupling inherited occupation from job quality.

Digit Debates: The Gender Wage Gap in an Online Labour Market: The Cost of Interruptions

20 October 2021

Professor Abi Adams-Prassl presents her Digit Debate on the gender wage gap in an online labour market.

Digit Debates: Diversity and Digital Exclusion: developing an inclusive agenda for digital futures at work

3 November 2021

techUK’s Nimmi Patel presents her Digit Debate on developing an inclusive agenda for digital futures at work.

Digit Debates: Mind the gap: Digital platforms and the future of social and employment protections

10 November 2021

Digit’s Steve Rolf and Marc Meryon from Eversheds Sutherland present their Digit Debate on digital platforms and the future of social employment protections

Digit Debates: Connectivity – OECD perspectives and policies to expand network coverage and quality

17 November 2021

In this Digit Debate, Verena Weber, Head of the Communication Infrastructures and Policy Unit at the OECD, discusses current state of communications infrastructures and the policies that can help expand network coverage and quality.  

Digit Debates: Do workers need a legal right to disconnect?

24 November 2021

Our Digit Debates Right to Disconnect panel, comprised of experts from law, academia, trade unionism and journalism, discuss whether workers should have the right to disconnect.

Can HR adapt to artificial intelligence?

23 February 2022

How can the HR profession shape the future to put fairness and ethics at the heart of AI development and use?

Threat or opportunity? (Social) media perspectives on AI and the future of work

9 March 2022

What can online discussions about AI and the future of work tell us about how the impacts and possible futures are understood?

Is AI taking our jobs? Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders

16 March 2022

What can a survey of UK business leaders tell us about the impact of AI on jobs?

How fixing the digital divide will help the country level up

30 March 2022

What do you need to cross the divide as an individual and what would a digitally included nation really deliver us?

The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social

4 May 2022

How the ubiquitous language of ranking and scoring has changed profoundly our perception of value and status.

Authoritarianism, oligarchy, localism or democracy? Alternative Futures for the Digital Transformation

18 May 2022

How can four scenarios for the future trajectory of the digital transformation help us trace and understand the future trajectory of the digital transformation?

The covid pandemic and the resurgence of the shorter working week

25 May 2022

Early reflections on ongoing research investigating the rapidly-growing number of employer-led experiments with the ‘4 Day Week’, following the Covid pandemic.

Automating job interviews: Experiences and implications for job seekers

8 June 2022

How do asynchronous video interviews affect the behaviour of young job seekers during interviews, and their post-interview perceptions of self and work?

Skills for the Planetary Labour Market - Indian Workers in the Platform Economy

15 June 2022

How can governmental, private and third-sector skills training approaches be adapted to meet the needs of Indian cloudworkers?

Can we talk about strategic Human Resource Management in the gig economy?

12 October 2022

Professor Fang Lee Cooke provides an overview of research on digitally enabled gig employment and the implications for human resource management research and practice.

Digital Levelling Up in Sussex

2 November 2022

Dr Becky Faith asks who is being left behind by the digital transformation and how can we imagine a more inclusive digital future for Sussex? 

Restarting the future: how to fix the intangible economy

9 November 2022

Jonathan Haskel discusses how the vital institutions that underpin our economy remain geared to an outmoded way of doing business and presents new ideas to help us catch up with the intangible revolution.

Shaping the Future of Work: An Activist Research Agenda

16 November 2022

Professor Thomas Kochan asks how researchers can take an activist role in studying how to best design and use technology for the common good.

Working from home after COVID-19

23 November 2022

Pawel Adrjan asks how increasing and declining pandemic severity has influenced advertised telework from 2019 to today?