Data Justice Lab
datajusticelab.bsky.social
Data Justice Lab
@datajusticelab.bsky.social
Researching the intersection of datafication and social justice.
Jess Brand & Lina Dencik have a new paper in Platforms & Society exploring changing worker identities amongst postal workers in response to increased platformisation of their work, arguing that Royal Mail is undergoing processes of 'Amazonification'

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The Amazonification of Royal Mail and postal worker identity - Jess Brand, Lina Dencik, 2025
Postal work has undergone significant transformations with the advent of platformisation that follows on from broader structural changes in the consumption and ...
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June 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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So pleased for newly titled Dr @isobelrorison.bsky.social who passed her PhD viva with no corrections! 🥳 Isobel’s brilliant thesis on AI & the NHS provides crucial insights that we can all learn from. Watch out for her future publications!!
#Jomecresearch @datajusticelab.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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⚠️ AI creates risks for all workers.

#AI can make work more insecure, less well paid and risk redundancies when used to manage people and automate tasks.

📊 @datajusticelab.bsky.social for TUC Cymru have researched how these risks impact workers based on:

Disability
Ethnicity
Gender
Age
Language
April 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM