"The healthcare uberization is slipping under the radar"
Just like with platforms such as Uber or Glovo, nurses, healthcare professionals & daycare workers sign up to algorithmically managed apps that connect them to hospitals, medical centers and households in need of temporary staff. Such apps reproduce many of the structural problems that also affect other industries that rely on algorithms: unreliable schedules, ...
How commercial platforms fuel the climate crisis. Malte Rödl and I write on algorithmically embodied emissions: "By reinforcing high-carbon practices, algorithmic information systems contribute to climate change". Part 2 in Data & Society's series on algorithmic harm. https://points.datasociety.net/algorithmically-embodied-emissions-algorithmic-harm-and-climate-change-e2617eb4770d @datasociety #ClimateCrisis #sts #google #algorithmicharms #infrastructurestudies
Good morning :fediverse:! In today's #ConnectionList, I'd like to introduce you to:
@VirginiaEubanks, a #researcher and #writer of #technology and #SocialJustice. Her book "Automating Inequality" is a stunning treatise on #AlgorithmicHarms #AlgorithmicJustic and uses the concept of poorhouses to show how #algorithms can operate as "digital poorhouses". You should buy it, read it, and then encourage all your friends to read it.
@marnie is in #Aotearoa and is working with #water for healthy #land and #people #NZTwits #ecology 🇳🇿
@LauraLangdon is a #tech #writer and #DevRel at @suborbital. She likes #Python and #Go and #ResponsibleAI (me too Laura!) 🇺🇸 👋
@laurentlefort is a #KnowledgeGraph engineer, and former @w3c #Australia persson. He's based in #Canberra #CBR on #Ngunnawal and #Ngambri country 🇦🇺 👋
@OmidVEbrahimi is a #researcher and #PhD candidate working in #psychology and #AppliedStatistics, and works as a child #psychologist. Currently at COPE Lab in #Oslo, moving to #Oxford next year 👋
@MistressRemilia makes #doom and #quake maps, writes #music, programs in #Lisp and #Crystal. She uses Slackware #Linux 🐧 👋
@Paxxi is from 🇸🇪 (and I bet he loves #fika like @forslund!), and he got me on to #Mash, which is mobile bash / ssh. And wow it's changed my life! Thank you! 👋 tack så mycket!
That's all for today, don't forget to curate your own #ConnectionList ❤️
