js @organizejs

member @tech_actions / ex-Microsoft / PhD at MIT studying the political economy of innovation valueadded.tech Joined May 2012

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Lizhi Liu @lizhiliu.bsky.social @LizhiLiu4

11 months ago

Thrilled to announce “From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China” is released! (amazon: tiny.cc/35zuzz or 30%off with code P327 at tiny.cc/2ouuzz via @PrincetonUPress) A decade in the making, my book presents how the world’s largest…

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js @organizejs

a year ago

Our new article draws from the recent history of tech worker organizing to argue that workers, if organized, can play an important role in shaping the future of the tech sector. Ty @seyramavle and @perhaxis for inviting us to contribute.

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Cecilia Rikap @CeciliaRikap

a year ago

Pleased to share (another) published piece w/ @JuanMGrana @sebiffranco Dependency in the Digital Age?Mercado Libre in Latin America onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de… (Digital) dependency as layers of economic power. Leading firms from the peripheries occupy intermediate positions 1/5

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Cecilia Rikap @CeciliaRikap

a year ago

New paper out at @RIPEJournal "Varieties of Corporate Innovation Systems & Their Interplay with Global and National Systems: #Amazon, #Facebook, #Google and #Microsoft’s Strategies to Produce & Appropriate #ArtificialIntelligence" 1/8 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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js @organizejs

a year ago

Excited to share this paper! The key takeaway is that the workplace is another arena in which AI reproduces existing inequalities: AI-related harms inflicted on gig/low-waged workers remain unresolved at a higher rate than those inflicted on professionals/high-waged workers.

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Collective Action in Tech @tech_actions

a year ago

We're at #FAccT2024 giving away this new zine: A Time Capsule of Workers Stories in the Age of Gen AI. This is a window into the complex relationship between workers and the AI we use (or are forced to use) and produce, but also resist and subvert… collectiveaction.tech/2024/bits-in-t…

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Amir Lebdioui @Amirlbd

a year ago

My book is now available to download for free! Just like in nature, where survival hinges on adaptation, this book analyses how nations exploit (or get pushed from) new dynamics of structural transformation induced by climate. Let me know what you think! cambridge.org/core/elements/…

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Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir

a year ago

Shame on @BrownUniversity. Solidarity with @BrownDivest. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

olivia ebertz @oliviaebertz

a year ago

Shame on @BrownUniversity. Solidarity with @BrownDivest. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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(Commentary) MIT Coalition for Palestine @m1t_caa

a year ago

In 1987, the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid protested against MIT's ties to apartheid South Africa by erecting a shantytown. Today, in the same location, students are protesting MIT's ties to genocide & apartheid in Palestine via the Scientists Against Genocide encampment. 🇵🇸

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js @organizejs

2 years ago

Awesome to see this work finally in print! Our chapter looks at the role of workers in keeping AI accountable. We draw from the @tech_actions database to develop our theoretical model.