Strip away the sexy marketing and what you have is just another digital platform shifting legal responsibilities and risks.
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The Fair Work Commission’s ruling that delivery rider Diego Franco was an employee of Deliveroo is a major legal win for Australia’s gig workers.
It has happened with software, computing and entertainment, but we’re still waiting for the platform needed for mobility as a service to reach its full potential.
It would be useful for China’s big tech firms to toe the party line. But the once mutually-beneficial relationship between these companies and the government is becoming increasingly strained.
Food-ordering platform Menulog has declared it will break with the standard contractor business model. But let’s not get too excited yet.
Uber has been forced by the UK courts to treat its British drivers as workers. It will probably require legislative change for Uber’s Australian drivers to be treated as employees.
Google, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter have all agreed to a voluntary code of conduct targeting misinformation. But the only real commitment is to appear as though they’re taking action.
It enjoys huge network effects that lock users in. Google does not.
Our relationship with Facebook, Google and news is a classic case of the prisoner’s dilemma. Cooperation may be the only way to get the best outcome.
The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that drivers are entitled to workers’ rights.
Facebook pulling the plug on Australian news will cause short-term disruption, but readers and media will recover.
What made Facebook grow big wasn’t what its targets would have been without it, it was what they were able to do with it.
It may have seemed the platforms were taking a confident stance by appealing to Australian users directly. But really, it was a delayed and panic-based reaction.
If this is just one experiment among of tens of thousands, as Google has admitted, in what other ways might users have been manipulated in the past?
Fast fashion is far from green. But the rapid expansion of online clothing resale platforms could help shrink the garment industry’s negative impact on the environment.
Under municipal control, or through public-private partnerships, platforms technology could transform service delivery to citizens.
Over the past decade, news media companies have been at the mercy of big tech platforms’ algorithms in delivering them readers. But with no guarantee of sustained revenue, media firms are looking elsewhere.
Handing management to algorithms creates ‘black-box bosses" whose decision-making is hard to understand or question.
As news media revenues tumble still further amid the COVID-19 recession, the government has pledged mandatory rules to force tech giants to pay for using news content.
COVID-19 is dragging some arts institutions into the 21st century. Others are already well down this path. What we win and lose when culture goes online and a bunch of links you can enjoy today.
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Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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