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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?
Where Automated Interviews Fall Short
Jaser, Z., Petrakaki, D., Starr, R., Oyarbide-Magaña, E. (2022) Harvard Business Review
After-hours connectivity management strategies in academic work
Aljabr, N., Chamakiotis, P., Petrakaki, D., Newell, S. (in press), New technology, Work and Employment
Social value creation through digital health activism in an online health community
Chamakiotis, P. Petrakaki, D. & Panteli, N.(2021), Information Systems Journal