Living in the Digital World shift. With different languages we fight for Different Things thats fine let me all stick up for Freedom Freedom of speech and freedom of press. Giving freedom of Choice Global news that matters d. W. Made for minds. A job offer in an hour i bet a hari algorithms organize my work days and write my performance what does that mean for me digital control when apps tell you how to do your job i want topic today on shift. Our. Brave new digital workspace normal fixed i was working from the comfort of home and everything you need at your fingertips through your smartphone visualization and. Already greatly shape the workforce especially in the Service Industry nearly half of the employees worldwide work in this sector in germany they make up 3 quarters what is it like to receive assignments from a phone we asked a by career. Exercising our receiving job requests by meeting friends and getting paid for it all but the life of a by korea may not be quite as great as companies would like you to say only contract employees have a guaranteed income freelance careers get their assignments through enough and sure an algorithm decides how much they will. Let algorithms only consider performance criteria such as speed position and reliability they dont care about the human being behind the data selfemployed koori is working under these conditions of the socalled big economy they fight for any short commission. University lecture a team specializes in the working conditions of the digital age. People who work these gigs dont necessarily decide when and where they do it. Instead the platform assigns them certain jobs. That stick out often they find themselves at the mercy of the up of. As if they were waiting for bread crumbs that the sites algorithm tosses out for the. Constantly waiting for the next job is nerve wracking and emotionally exhausting and germany unions and politicians are raising the. New developments in Digital Technology were seeing new forms of exploitation and precarity by couriers for example theyve gone without any real social safety net for a long time. Doesnt sound easy but i dont want to be a by korea so thats not my problem right actually thats a bit shortsighted. Socalled digital capitalism has broad radical changes to our working lives and is affecting more and more people according to. And he should know hes been working in the sector for 20 years and has written 2 books on the subject. Digital capitalism is a historical phase of capitalism in which algorithms and data take on the role that machines and resources used to play. In this digital capitalism the data corporations that specialize in data extraction dominate the market. These businesses cloak themselves as platforms. In the future experts predict that fewer workers will receive contract positions googles already proving them right not even half of the employees are under contract and the gig economy many work in precarious circumstances in theory whenever and wherever they want but even if theyre independent on paper they may still be closely monitored one example amazons warehouse workers known as pick their work day is determined by digital. Warehouse workers in particular are monitored very very closely. The device they carry around with them watches every step they make and it gives them a clear instructions on where to go literal sense of the term which optimal paths to walk. Up to its reminiscent of the Assembly Line days. People were reduced to performing single simple ideal movements of. Digital technology to optimize workflows must be every employee is dream but they could also use these programs to identify optimal employees and these forms of digital control limited to koori years and where. Has workers algorithmic Management Systems as theyre called showing up in other sectors as well software that tells me when its time for a break to give my back a rest sounds great and if it helps if that not hierarchy is all the better on the other hand it would always a lot and i wrote performance in detail and how does that affect me mr dahl differences aside often the physical boss disappears and is replaced by Digital Technologies that are invisible to keep far closer watch. These mathematical theory to these mathematical see in these mathematical theorems about a group of. Imagine i had a computer counting how much expensive studio time my familys cost now thats total digital control. What algorithms concow and however a social skills to measure those you simply need to ask your employees Rating Systems in which work is evaluated one another becoming more commonplace they were inspired by the customer Rating Systems we used to from most major internet that phones. My producer brought me a cup of coffee today. Again. Online Fashion Retail is the land developed the zone no Rating System based on co worker feedback in order to digitally track the worst performance of the companys 5000 some employees Union Friendly foundation examines this system this study shows that the sensation of total surveillance it creates damage the working environment and yes more and more companies are favoring digital monitoring and workers with flexible availability under these circumstances can hardly defend their interests. But were dealing with a kind of digital early capitalism its as if new digital factories were popping up theres no regulation thats the kind of thing we need a process involving labor struggles and theyre already happening i. Think some google employees are trying to organize in unions they say the company has been blocking them and some even reports having been sacked. But the Company Denies this is the i actually recognise many developments in this digital platform economy that we know from the history of the Workers Movement as of course the over drivers today are organized very differently than i think facebook groups and they call wildcat strikes out there a kind of postmodern Union Movement and i think thats a positive development or definitely welcome it. So theres still hope but many of these checks and balances already part of labor law at least in germany the large into that corporations are not too happy about them before tech giants. Facebook and amazon or operate worldwide and set themselves above National Regulation in most countries they can avoid taxes and use the monopolies to their advantage National DataProtection Laws are just a nuisance that. And they dont like taking responsibility for what happens well besides they have a watertight defense is theyve insisted that just indeed media is all that this neutral market places of course thats not really the case says. Special about these platforms is that the ones who set them up are the rulers there they decide the rules and theyre also the ones active in these markets they themselves created software. So. For example amazon has provider on the marketplace that it has created worldwide. So its not just the referee it is the same time its also a player. There are 2 main reasons why the gaffa big 4 dominate the markets one is the Network Effect that is as services usefulness increases disproportionately with the number of but disciplines the more the merrier then theres the feedback effect the bigger the site the more data it can collect to optimize that system and that makes the site even more attractive to use it google and co hugely successful in securing their monopolies according to major Silicon Valley investopedia deal competition is full news this. Theres just no way around digital capitalists is there. In india Small Businesses are fighting back against amazon indias powerful Shopkeepers Union has been trying to block amazons entry into their 1000000000 euro markets with protests as well as legal and Political Action the battles yet to be decided. Meanwhile china simply luck to take china out with its enormous file will. Put its theyve been pursuing quite a radical protectionism and i have to say very successfully. In the Worlds Largest domestic market the chinese counterparts to Silicon Valleys digital corporations have been a huge success and have gathered an immense number of users. So they get this algorithmic feedback effect in a very pronounced way. The chinese model is pushing digital capitalism very hard in its vast market. Most. Of the other wellman power big multinational tech firms hold also challenges nation states western politicians are still looking for the right approach and the e. U. Has impose steep and he trusts penalties american politicians like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders is even calling for the internet tech giants to be broken up. Thats a lofty promise and by the way 7 of the 10 most highly valued corporations Worldwide Tech firms Apple Microsoft alphabet amazon facebook the chinese Ecommerce Group alibaba and tencent which owns. The market dominance seems unshakeable except for apple and microsoft all these companies have been around for less than 25 years in just a short time theyve become the biggest players in the world market and theyre made resources i intend to they include user data and algorithms. But we dream only change anything if you broke up logic operations well then wouldnt you players just take over the market and wed be back where we stop it is a platform isnt a lot only these platforms are markets but since theyre part of our Digital Infrastructure the classical Market Mechanisms no longer apply. These platforms should be treated as a Public Service and be a freely available infrastructure fossil to one because the india. Should facebook and google be nationalized and should Digital Infrastructure be freely available just like roads and rails without private corporations raking in all drage of profits would disappear capitalism have to make way for digital communism. Id say we are moving into a stormy transition radical social change has always had profound consequences for individuals the same went for the Industrial Revolution in time workers managed to fight for some of their rights with the digital revolution similar what do you think will be soon end up as the paid click workers or will the digital revolution have positive effects on most of our lives let us know what you think on you tube facebook on the w dot com and ill see you there. By. Gender based violence is an issue many are still unwilling to talk about today where you know good and were trying to find out how we social media in the fight against sexual and gender based violence. Talks to rights activists imagine people sound. The 77 percent. Better but is it bad for our health. Telecoms technology. How does it differ from earlier versions. And is there anything to the claim that its dangerous. 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