{"id":3960,"date":"2015-11-05T15:38:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2015-11-05T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:38:01","slug":"mary-l-gray-on-re-assembling-the-assembly-line-digital-labor-economies-and-demands-for-an-ambient-workforce-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2015\/11\/05\/mary-l-gray-on-re-assembling-the-assembly-line-digital-labor-economies-and-demands-for-an-ambient-workforce-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary L. Gray on Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce [AUDIO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowdwork &#8212; \u201cthe process of taking tasks that would normally be delegated to an employee and distributing them to a large pool of online workers, the \u2018crowd,\u2019 in the form of an open call&#8221; &#8212; has become an entire category of global employment we could never have imagined existing a few short years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, Mary L. Gray &#8212; Senior Researcher at Microsoft Social Research &#8212; presents results of a two-year ethnographic and qualitative study of the cultural meaning, political implications, and ethical demands of crowdwork in India and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The study examines the emergence of an Ambient Workforce &#8212; a distributed, always-on, at-the-ready, expansive labor market, dependent on a mix of intense bursts of activity AND a \u201clong tail\u201d of idling &#8212; and how society might help shape this explosively growing sector.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/Internet%20and%20Society%202007\/tiny_thumbs\/45px-Sound-icon.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"45\" height=\"34\" \/> Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2015-11-03_gray\/2015-11-03_gray.mp3\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2015-11-03_gray\/2015-11-03_gray.ogg\">OGG audio format!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info on this event <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheon\/2015\/11\/Gray\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowdwork &#8212; \u201cthe process of taking tasks that would normally be delegated to an employee and distributing them to a large pool of online workers, the \u2018crowd,\u2019 in the form of an open call&#8221; &#8212; has become an entire category of global employment we could never have imagined existing a few short years ago. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}