The freelance translation machine: Algorithmic culture and the invisible industry

By Scott Kushner. 2013

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The Challenges of Algorithm-Based HR Decision-Making for Personal Integrity (2019, methodology): “Furthermore, critical algorithm studies have examined algorithms directed toward constituents outside the organization, such as platform users (Bucher 2012, 2017; Mager 2012; Willson 2017), customers (Crawford 2015), consumers (Carah 2015), or freelance workers (Kushner 2013) but less on algorithms ”
The Future of Work in the ‘Sharing Economy’. Market Efficiency and Equitable Opportunities or Unfair Precarisation? (2016, unknown): “(Kushner, 2013) online freelance translation marketplaces; Media and communication Theoretical essay Online translation and algorithms in general 49.”
What are algorithmic cultures (2016, unknown): “Of late, it is mostly Ted Striphas who has led what he calls "historico-definitional" efforts in deter mining what could more fully constitute such an algorithmic culture (20 15, 2009; Hallinan and Striphas 2014; see also Roberge and Melan~on forthcoming; and to a Jesser extent, Kushner 2013).”
Labour process theory and the gig economy (2018, background): “…context whereby the fixed employeremployee relationship has been replaced with a new kind of flexible structure, in which platforms ‘cut into the chain’ (Kushner, 2013: 1249) of supply and demand of work and remediate the social relations that determine the distribution and appropriation of labour.”
Seeing without knowing: Limitations of the transparency ideal and its application to algorithmic accountability (2018, background): “…as emergent sociality (Mackenzie, 2015; Striphas, 2015), automated media circulation (Hallinan and Striphas, 2014; Napoli, 2014), optimized labor (Kushner, 2013) and financial markets (Arnoldi, 2015), bracketed research methods (Driscoll and Walker, 2014), and rationalized expertise (Anderson,…”
Thinking critically about and researching algorithms (2014, background): “Far from being neutral in nature, algorithms construct and implement regimes of power and knowledge (Kushner, 2013) and their use has normative implications (Anderson, 2011).”