Janna Shadduck-Hernández’s research while affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles and other places

... This research approach and methodology involves meaningful collaboration and active participation of the study participants and challenges the power imbalance in the research process with participants substantially involved in all steps of the research, in contrast to traditional research, which tends to be top-down, with the researchers making all the research planning decisions and the researched passively submitted to whatever those decisions entail (Jacobs 2016;McGrath 2022;Tanabe, Pearce, and Krause 2018;White, Suchowierska, and Campbell 2004). This important difference makes PAR research 'emancipatory' in itself (Mathias et al. 2020;Nind 2011) and a democratic research process where participants involved as co-researchers have a voice, a role, and a responsibility in the process (Ángeles et al. 2022;Hawkins 2015;Hemming et al. 2021;Jacobs 2016;Sample 1996). This also corresponds to the research justice framework that endorses the inclusion of the participants' voices and influences in the research process and the right to participate in knowledge production (Ángeles et al. 2022;Mathias et al. 2020). ...

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Participatory action research in partnership with young people with disability: a case from the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)

... Their daily life contacts and interactions with family members, relatives, neighbors, and friends-who usually have 9 a.m.-5 p.m. jobs or do not work the same hours as the platform workers-are severely minimized, leading to a somewhat "social death" (see Aneesh, 2006). The platform workers face an "impossible choice" (Alvarez et al., 2020) in navigating the precarious work arrangements through affective labor and getting higher ratings for their service as well as "time theft" (Sharma et al., 2022) working around the clock to fulfill quotas to be eligible for bonuses. Analyzing platform work holistically would reveal the paradox of the system; with new economic opportunities, there are new precarities. ...

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Working Without a Boss in Dhaka? Affective Labor, Ratings, And Temporalities in Digital Platforms

... Other scholars have noted the contradiction between the theory of entrepreneurship, which should be embodied in an individual who has 'a propensity for risk taking, needs for autonomy and achievement, self-efficacy and a locus of control' (Ravenelle 2019, 270), and the realities of platform workers subjected to algorithmic management. This is an umbrella term for a combination of digital, data-informed techniques that continues the misclassification of location-based platform workers as self-employed while subtly keeping them available at the times and places most profitable to the companies (Koonse et al. 2021;Gandini 2019). Algorithmic management includes both the carrot of gamified incentives, and the stick of coercion (Ravenelle 2019;van Doorn and Chen 2021). ...

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The algorithmic big Other: using Lacanian theory to rethink control and resistance in platform work