Presenters: Use the link provided to all presenters if you want to read the full paper associated with each presentation.
8:30–10:05 AM
Welcome Remarks and Panel 1: Comparative Perspectives on Control and Autonomy in Platform Work
(last 10 minutes will be devoted to the two speed presentations)
10:05–10:30 AM
Coffee Break and Networking
10:30 AM–Noon
Panel 2: Factors Pushing and Pulling Workers into (and out of) the Gig Economy
(last 10 minutes will be devoted to the two speed presentations)
Noon–1:00 PM
Lunch Break and Networking
(please try to speak to at least one person you don't know!)
1:00–2:30 PM
Panel 3: Evaluation and Devaluation: Subjective Appraisals on Platforms
(last 10 minutes will be devoted to the two speed presentations)
2:30–2:45 PM
Coffee Break
2:45–3:45 PM
Keynote: Platform Economies as Moral Economies: The Case of Social Media Influencers
Angèle Christin
3:45–4:00 PM
Coffee Break
4:00–5:30 PM
Panel 4: Vulnerabilities and Opportunities: Intersectional Divides in the Experience of Platform Work
5:30–7:30 PM
Dinner and Closing Mixer
(please try to speak to at least one person you don't know!)
The workshop’s attendees will meet in person in Philadelphia on Thursday, August 17, 2023, the first day of the 2023 ASA annual meeting. The event will be held at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication:
Annenberg School for Communication, Room 109
3620 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please enter through the building's Walnut Street entrance, or you may enter on a different floor of the building.
The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., followed by a dinner and closing mixer.
This workshop is open to the public. Given limited resources, we cannot allow for virtual attendance at the workshop. We kindly require everyone to RSVP by July 17, 2023.
Presenters: Use the link provided to all presenters if you want to read the full paper associated with each presentation.
8:30–10:05 AM
Tim Bartley, ASA OOW Chair
Benjamin Shestakofsky, Moderator
When the Service Triangle Becomes the Service Ecosystem: Exploring How Platform Labor Shifts across Borders through a Multi-National Comparative Ethnography of the Ride-Hailing Industry
Lindsey Cameron, Bobbi Thomason, and Nick Occhiuto
Between Computing and Manipulating: The Role of Complementary Organization in China’s AI Data-Labeling Industry
Tongyu Wu and Bingqing Xia
The Temporal Logic of Platform Capitalism: Future-Driven Management of Precarity among Gig Workers in Tokyo, Japan
See Pok Loa
Digital Taylorism? Understanding the Design Logic behind Algorithmic Management in the Gig Economy
Angela Ke Li
Note: The last 10 minutes of the panel will be devoted to the two speed presentations.
You Really Like Me: How Audiences Shape Creativity Online
Matthew H. Rafalow
The Commodification of Feminist Ethics in the Indie Porn Market
Thao Nguyen
10:05–10:30 AM
Note: Speed presenters will be available during the break if you have questions or comments about their presentations.
10:30 AM–Noon
Steven Vallas, Moderator
Not All Platform Work Is Equal: Migrants’ Experience of Self-Determination between “Relational” and “Non-relational” Platform Work
Laura Lam and Anna Triandafyllidou
The Addiction of a Viral High: How Platforms Propel Commitment to the Creator Economy
Taylor Beauvais and Ashley Mears
Entering and Exiting: Rethinking the “De-skilling” Narrative in the Contemporary Platform Economy
Mishal Khan and Funda Ustek-Spilda
New Gig, Old Service: Understanding Class and Gender Motivations for Platform-Based Gig Work
Brandon A. Jackson
Note: The last 10 minutes of the panel will be devoted to the two speed presentations.
The Embedded Gig Economy: Labor Markets, Urban Infrastructure, and Gig Workers’ Experiences—A Case Study of Food Delivery Platform Workers in Seoul and New York City
Eunji Kim
Risk, Reward, and Entrepreneurship in the Health Sharing Economy
Guillermina Altomonte
Noon–1:00 PM
Note: Please try to speak to at least one person you don't know! Also, speed presenters will be available during the break if you have questions or comments about their presentations.
1:00–2:30 PM
Victor Tan Chen, Moderator
The Reselling Eye: Embodied Valuation Practices in the Digital Marketplace Economy
Ryan Fajardo
Selling Your Soul for a Dollar: The Authenticity Mandate and the Self-Enterprise
Farnaz Ghaedipour and Arvind Karunakaran
The Customer Cancellation Gap: The Drivers of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in On-Demand Work
Tristan Botelho and Katherine DeCelles
Consumer-Labor Solidarity in the Gig Economy
Adam Reich, Ruth Milkman, Kathleen Griesbach, Luke Elliott-Negri
Note: The last 10 minutes of the panel will be devoted to the two speed presentations.
Two Perspectives on Short-Term Rental (STR) Professionalization
Quinn O'Dowd
A Comparative Study of Food Delivery Platforms in China and the U.S.: The Subcontracting System and Conventional Trade Union Intervention
Jingting Liang
2:30–2:45 PM
Note: Speed presenters will be available during the break if you have questions or comments about their presentations.
2:45–3:45 PM
Introduction by Zoe Zhao
3:45–4:00 PM
4:00–5:30 PM
Ashley Mears, Moderator
“It’s Always Been Women's Work”—Gender, Precarity and Resistance in Platform Work in Mumbai, India
Isha Bhallamudi
Bringing Debt to Work: Debt and Governance in Food Delivery Gig Work—Lessons from Mexico City
Mariana Manriquez Ruiz
Work Trajectories: Evidence from an Online Freelance Labor Market
Steve Sawyer, Isabel Munoz, Michael Dunn, and Pyeonghwa Kim
Immigrant Workers in New Economies: The Hows, Whys, and Consequences of Participating in the Sharing Economy
Laura Lopez-Sanders and Anairis Hernandez Jabalera
5:30–7:30 PM
Note: Please try to speak to at least one person you don't know!