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#4969. Crowdwork, digital liminality and the enactment of culturally recognised alternatives to Western precarity: beyond epistemological terra nullius
| July 2026 | publication date |
| Proposal available till | 17-05-2025 |
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| Library and Information Sciences; Information Systems; Management Information Systems; Information Systems and Management; |
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Abstract:
Research on crowdwork in developing countries considers it precarious. This reproduces its Western conceptualisation assuming that crowdworkers in developing countries imitate their Western counterparts, without close examination of their experiences and responses to work conditions. It questions how crowdworkers experience and respond to crowdwork and adopts an inductive approach in examining crowdworkers. Unlike the work precarity thesis, we find that crowdworkers transition and transform crowdwork into long-term employment, drawing on their own cultural heritage, social norms and traditions. We conceptualise crowdwork as liminal digital work and uncover three phases in this transformation process. The study concludes that the agency of workers, their culture and their own context play important roles in their experience of crowdwork. This demonstrates that the in-depth examination of the phenomenon in developing countries could destabilise the dominant knowledge, decoupling it from its origin of production and exposing and examining its implicit and explicit assumptions, and hence advance theorisation.
Keywords:
crowdsourcing; crowdwork; decolonisation; digital labour; digital platforms; future of work; platform employment; precarious work; precarity
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Abstract:
Research on crowdwork in developing countries considers it precarious. This reproduces its Western conceptualisation assuming that crowdworkers in developing countries imitate their Western counterparts, without close examination of their experiences and responses to work conditions. It questions how crowdworkers experience and respond to crowdwork and adopts an inductive approach in examining crowdworkers. Unlike the work precarity thesis, we find that crowdworkers transition and transform crowdwork into long-term employment, drawing on their own cultural heritage, social norms and traditions. We conceptualise crowdwork as liminal digital work and uncover three phases in this transformation process. The study concludes that the agency of workers, their culture and their own context play important roles in their experience of crowdwork. This demonstrates that the in-depth examination of the phenomenon in developing countries could destabilise the dominant knowledge, decoupling it from its origin of production and exposing and examining its implicit and explicit assumptions, and hence advance theorisation.
Keywords:
crowdsourcing; crowdwork; decolonisation; digital labour; digital platforms; future of work; platform employment; precarious work; precarity
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