Tag: Uber

| , February 21st, 2022
Interview by Diego Valdivieso https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31529 Diego Valdivieso: For those who have not had the opportunity to read your book and have a glimpse of the viciss…

Cheyne Anderson , May 29th, 2020
In Uberland: How algorithms are rewriting the future of work, technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat tackles the political realities of the Silicon Valley mythos through one of its most…
Book Review: Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy by Alexandrea Ravenelle
Rose Deller , May 11th, 2020
In Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy, Alexandrea Ravenelle offers a new ethnographic study that examines working life for people in the gig economy…
| , July 1st, 2019
Page 99 is home to one of the most linguistically precise segments of my dissertation, concerning the construction of a legal case against Uber in Buenos Aires, Argentina,…

Adam Fish , July 11th, 2018
Many libertarians in Silicon Valley are advocates for permissionless innovation. They eschew waiting around for permission from a nanny state. They are impatient and see themselves above the…

Grant , May 6th, 2016
Let’s say you are starting a startup and today you are standing in front of a venture capitalist. With impatience in his voice, the VC says, “Tell me again…

Grant , May 5th, 2016
I wrote this brief book in 2015 and promptly put it in a drawer and forgot about it. Then a couple of days ago (May 3, 2016), Virginia Postrel posted…