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- Publications
- Influence
Algorithmic Labor and Information Asymmetries: A Case Study of Uber’s Drivers
- Alex Rosenblat, Luke Stark
- Economics
- 30 July 2016
Uber manages a large, disaggregated workforce through its ridehail platform, one that delivers a relatively standardized experience to passengers while simultaneously promoting its drivers as… Expand
The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, and Power
- R. Calo, Alex Rosenblat
- Economics
- 9 March 2017
Sharing economy firms such as Uber and Airbnb facilitate trusted transactions between strangers on digital platforms. This creates economic and other value and raises a set of concerns around racial… Expand
Discriminating Tastes: Uber's Customer Ratings as Vehicles for Workplace Discrimination
- Alex Rosenblat, Karen Levy, Solon Barocas, T. Hwang
- Business
- 28 June 2017
Consumer-sourced rating systems are a dominant method of worker evaluation in platform-based work. These systems facilitate the semi-automated management of large, disaggregated workforces, and the… Expand
Discriminating Tastes: Customer Ratings as Vehicles for Bias
- Alex Rosenblat, Karen Levy, Solon Barocas, T. Hwang
- Engineering
- 19 October 2016
Consumer-sourced rating systems are a dominant method of worker evaluation in platformbased work. These systems facilitate the semi-automated management of large, disaggregated workforces, and the… Expand
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Predictive Policing
Predictive policing refers to the use of analytical techniques by law enforcement to make statistical predictions about potential criminal activity.2 Predictive policing can involve either predicting… Expand
Dreams of Accountability, Guaranteed Surveillance: The Promises and Costs of Body-Worn Cameras
- Alexandra Mateescu, Alex Rosenblat, Danah Boyd
- Computer Science
- 9 May 2016
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Data & Civil Rights: Health Primer
- Alex Rosenblat, Kate Wikelius, Danah Boyd, S. Gangadharan, Corrine Yu
- Political Science
- 30 October 2014
Data plays a central role in both medicine and insurance, enabling advances and creating new challenges. Although legislative efforts have attempted to protect the privacy of people’s health data,… Expand
Police Body-Worn Cameras
- Alexandra Mateescu, Alex Rosenblat, D. Boyd
- Political Science
- 24 February 2015
Police Body-Worn Cameras breaks down what’s known – and not known – about the promises, perils, and potential best practices around police body-worn cameras. Both law enforcement and civil rights… Expand
Networked Employment Discrimination
- Alex Rosenblat, Tamara Kneese, D. Boyd
- Engineering
- 8 October 2014
Employers often struggle to assess qualified applicants, particularly in contexts where they receive hundreds of applications for job openings. In an effort to increase efficiency and improve the… Expand