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Record W4391179348 · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-39101-9_10

Relational Spaces of Digital Labor

2024· book-chapter· en· W4391179348 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueKnowledge and space · 2024
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDigital Economy and Work Transformation
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSociologyBusinessComputer science

Abstract

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Abstract The distinction between everyday life and work is gradually diminishing, as productive capacities are increasingly hard-coded into quotidian activities bearing little resemblance to colloquial understandings of “work”. Digital labor research has made important contributions to our understanding of these processes and their attendant relations, inequalities, and implications. However, this body of research has insufficiently attended to the spaces through which this labor takes place. On the one hand, most research foregoes the spatial forms and relations through which the labor occurs. On the other hand, when the spaces of digital labor are considered, it is usually done through its “absolute” spaces that rely on Euclidean geometries. In this chapter, I argue that a relational spaces framework is needed to advance understanding of digital labor. A relational framework conceives of actors and practices as constituted through networks and connections, and space as produced for phenomena like digital labor. With relationality, digital labor is not confined by nation-state boundaries nor as occurring only at a simple location on the globe, but instead as constituted by intertwined positionalities that span the globe. A relational spatial framework also enables an analysis of digital labor as immaterial, cognitive, attentional, and symbolic labor, rather than as a discrete, remunerated act.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.849
Threshold uncertainty score0.606

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it