Nordic Centre for Internet and Society

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Denne artikkelen av Gemma Newlands og Christoph Lutz undersøker krav til digitale enheter og differensiell tilgang til digital infrastruktur, som begge fungerer som potensielle barrierer for ikke bare grunnleggende deltakelse, men også for økonomisk suksess på nettet. Studien bruker både kvantitative og kvalitative data og er basert på en undersøkelse blant 606 crowdwork-arbeidere fra USA og India. Les mer her: https://lnkd.in/deb8ETut

//This article by Gemma Newlands and Christoph Lutz examines device requirements and differential access to digital infrastructure, both of which act as potential barriers to not only basic participation but also to economic success online. The study uses both quantitative and qualitive data and is based on a survey of 606 crowd workers across the United States and India. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/deb8ETut

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Plattformer for delingsøkonomi krever emosjonell arbeidspraksis blant uavhengige aktører, for eksempel gjester, verter, sjåfører eller passasjerer. I artikkelen “Shaping emotional labour practices in the sharing economy” av Eliane Bucher, Christian Fieseler, Christoph Lutz og Gemma Newlands, blir disse emosjonelle arbeidspraksisene studert ved å kombinere forskning via undersøkelsesskjemaer blant Airbnb og Uber-brukere med innholdsanalyse av syv ledende plattformer for delingsøkonomi . Les mer her: https://lnkd.in/dpeSnjwd

//Sharing economy platforms enforce emotional labor practices among independent actors, such as guests, hosts, drivers or passengers. In the article “Shaping emotional labor practices in the sharing economy” by Eliane Bucher, Christian Fieseler, Christoph Lutz and Gemma Newlands, these emotional labor practices are studied by combining survey research among Airbnb and Uber users with content analysis of seven leading sharing economy platforms. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dpeSnjwd

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I de siste årene har personvern begynt å tiltrekke seg betydelig oppmerksomhet i konkurransediskusjoner, spesielt i fusjoner som involverer datarike næringer som Google/DoubleClick, Facebook/WhatsApp og det nylige oppkjøpet av LinkedIn av Microsoft. I sine fusjonsbeslutninger som involverte Facebook/WhatsApp og senere Microsoft/LinkedIn, mente Europakommisjonen at personvern er et sentralt parameter for ikke-priskonkurranse i markedet for forbrukerkommunikasjon og for profesjonelle sosiale nettverk. Les en kritisk analyse av disse avgjørelsene av Samson Esayas her: https://lnkd.in/dug_NKUA

//In recent years, privacy has started to attract considerable attention in competition discussions, particularly in mergers involving data-rich industries such as Google/DoubleClick, Facebook/WhatsApp and the resent acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft. In its merger decisions involving Facebook/WhatsApp and subsequently Microsoft/LinkedIn, the European Commission held that data privacy constitutes a key parameter of non-price competition in the market for consumer communications and for professional social networks. Read a critical analysis of these decisions made by Samson Esayas here: https://lnkd.in/dug_NKUA

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Organisasjoner introduserer i økende grad bærbare enheter i håp om å forbedre organisasjonsytelsen. Til tross for de overbevisende fordelene enhetene medfører, kan de imidlertid vise seg å være skadelige for organisatoriske prestasjoner med mindre en rekke etiske spørsmål blir adressert. Denne artikkelen av Kateryna Maltseva, PhD gir en oversikt over fordelene visse bærbare teknologier kan gi ansatte og ledere, samt utfordringene de kan skape for organisasjoner. Les mer her: https://lnkd.in/dtwdVeKA

//Organizations increasingly introduce wearable devices, hoping to improve organizational performance. However, despite the compelling benefits of wearables, they may prove to be detrimental to organizational performance unless a number of ethical issues are addressed. This article by Kateryna Maltseva, PhD provides an overview of the benefits that certain wearable technologies can provide employees and managers, as well as the challenges they may create for organizations. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dtwdVeKA

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Et økende antall arbeidere vender seg til digitale plattformer som et alternativ til tradisjonelle arbeidsordninger. I denne artikkelen av Matthias Waldkirch, Eliane Bucher, Peter Schou og Eduard Grünwald blir det undersøkt hvordan menneskelige personalforvaltningsaktiviteter tar form på digitale arbeidsplattformer i gig-økonomien. Dette gjøres ved å studere oppfatninger fra arbeidere i en kombinasjon av overvåket tekstanalyse og en grundig kvalitativ innholdsanalyse basert på 12924 kommentarer fra et online forum for arbeidere i Upwork. Les mer her: https://lnkd.in/d898eR8i

//An increasing number of workers turn to digital platforms as an alternative to traditional work arrangements. In this article by Matthias Waldkirch, Eliane Bucher, Peter Schou and Eduard Grünwald it is examined how human resource management activities take shape on digital work platforms in the gig economy. This is done by studying worker perceptions in a combination of supervised text analysis and an in-depth qualitative content analysis relying on 12924 scraped comments from an online forum of workers on Upwork. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/d898eR8i

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Påvirker bekymringer for personvern bruksintensjoner av sosiale roboter?
Denne artikkelen av Christoph Lutz og Aurelia Tamò Larrieux presenterer resultatene av en eksperimentell vignettundersøkelse som vurderer ikke-eksperters personvernhensyn angående sosiale roboter og hvordan disse hensynene påvirker bruksintensjoner. Personvernhensyn viser seg å påvirke bruksintensjoner betydelig og negativt.
Les mer her: https://lnkd.in/dD5KS22a

//Do privacy concerns about social robots affect use intentions?
This article by Christoph Lutz and Aurelia Tamò Larrieux presents the results of an experimental vignette survey that assesses non-experts’ privacy concerns about social robots and how these concerns affect use intentions. It is shown that privacy concerns affect use intention significantly and negatively.
Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dD5KS22a

ONE WORKSHOP AND SEVEN PRESENTATIONS AT THE 2021 AOM ANNUAL MEETING

Nordic Centre for Internet and Society contributed at this year's Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting. The conference took place on a virtual event platform from the 29th of July to the 4th of August and gathered more than 9500 Academy members, exploring the theme "Bringing the Manager Back in Management".

Christian Fieseler held two presentations, one presenting a paper with Santiago Uribe named "Moral Legitimization in Science, Technology and Innovation policies", and one presentation with Eliane Bucher named "A Paranoid Reading of the Gig Economy" in a session on the gig work phenomenon. Eliane Bucher additionally presented the paper "Entrepreneurial support seeking and affordances in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic" in a session on ecosystems, and the paper "Vox Populi et Vox Regni: Investigating Digital Voice Channels in the Gig economy" in a session on managing new technologies.

Other contributions were the presentation of the paper "Employee Mindset, HRM Misalignment, and Helplessness in Virtual Teams" by Sut I Wong and the presentation of the paper "Player of Platform? How Metaphors Affect the Attribution of Actorhood to New Forms of Organizing" by Alexander Buhmann, PhD and Kateryna Maltseva, PhD.

Finally, a personal development workshop (PDW) was hosted by Christoph Lutz together with Jeroen Meijerink and Ulrich Leicht-Deobald called "Algorithmic Management: Toward a Cross-disciplinary Research Agenda". During the workshop, Gemma Newlands presented her recent work on the topic by presenting the paper "Algorithmic management in a work context".

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Covid-19-pandemien har gjort at fagfolk må jobbe i distribuerte team. Dermed blir behovet for å forstå forholdene som støtter teamkoordinering stadig viktigere. Artikkelen ‘Autonomous but Interdependent: The Roles of Initiated and Received Task Interdependence in Distributed Team Coordination’ av Marthe Berntzen og Sut I Wong er basert på en undersøkelse av 101 fagpersoner som jobber i distribuerte team. Artikkelen ser på hva slags modererende rolle initiert og mottatt oppgaveavhengighet har på forholdet mellom oppfatningen av selvledelse og koordinering i distribuerte team. Les mer her: https://lnkd.in/dPxPQHsH

//The Covid-19 pandemic has forced professionals to work in distributed teams. Hence, the need to understand the conditions supporting team coordination is becoming increasingly prevalent. The paper ‘Autonomous but Interdependent: The Roles of Initiated and Received Task Interdependence in Distributed Team Coordination’ by Marthe Berntzen and Sut I Wong is based on a survey of 101 professionals working in distributed teams. The paper examines the moderating roles of initiated and received task interdependence on the relationship between perceptions of self-management and coordination in distributed teams. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dPxPQHsH

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Artikkelen "'Thriving instead of surviving': A capability approach to geographical career transitions in the creative industries” av Ana Alacovska, Christian Fieseler og Sut I Wong utforsker karriereoverganger i kreative næringer som involverer geografisk flytting fra store kreative storbyer til små, fjerne og marginale urbaniteter. Måtene kreative arbeidstakere gir mening av og rettferdiggjør karriereovergangene sine blir utforsket i henhold til hvordan de refleksivt vurderer hvordan de underveis i livet har skiftet betydningen de legger i deres karrieresuksess. Les mer her: https://lnkd.in/gjRT3vV

//The paper “’Thriving instead of surviving’: A capability approach to geographical career transitions in the creative industries” by Ana Alacovska, Christian Fieseler and Sut I Wong examines career transitions in creative industries that involve geographical relocation from large metropolitan creative cities to small, remote and marginal urbanities. The ways in which creative workers make sense of and justify their career transitions are explored in terms of how they reassess reflexively over their lifespan the shifting meaning of their career success. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gjRT3vV

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I artikkelen «From crafting what you do to building resilience for career commitment in the gig economy» har Sut I Wong, Dominique Kost, PhD og Christian Fieseler funnet svar basert på en tidsutsatt undersøkelse av 334 digitale arbeidere for å undersøke hvordan individuell og samarbeidende jobbutforming kan hjelpe digitale arbeidere til å bygge motstandsdyktighet og karriereengasjement i gig-økonomien. De fant ut at de som i høy grad drev med individuell jobbutforming rapporterte høyere motstandsdyktighet i begynnelsen. Videre kompenserte høy grad av samarbeidende jobbutforming for lav individuell innsats for å oppnå høyere motstandskraft og dermed høyere karriereengasjement. Les mer her: https://lnkd.in/gEMrFpz

//In order to investigate how individual and collaborative job crafting may help digital labourers to build resilience and career commitment in the gig economy, Sut I Wong, Dominique Kost, PhD and Christian Fieseler have found answers based on a time-lagged survey from 334 digital labourers in the paper “From crafting what you do to building resilience for career commitment in the gig economy». They found that those who engaged in higher individual job crafting reported subsequently higher resilience on the outset. Moreover, high collaborative job crating compensated for low individual crating efforts in reaching higher resilience and subsequently higher career commitment. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gEMrFpz