The platform’s glitch: Workers, algorithms and resistance

“[T]his book evokes the possibility that algorithms may also be employed to resist the power of those who programmed them” (3), Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré invite readers to consider the individual and collective tactics against algorithmic power in the era of platform capitalism. Crowded on fieldwork across multiple countries, the authors examine how free laborers and digital workers – in particular, riders of online food delivery platforms – take actions to actively shape the outcome of algorithmic computation in their favor.

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Author(s): Kruskaya Hidalgo
Date Published: 2025
Author(s) Region of Origin: Latin America and the Caribbean

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