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Platform workers as infrastructures of global technologies

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            Interactions  Volume 28, Issue 4
            July - August 2021
            74 pages
            ISSN:1072-5520
            EISSN:1558-3449
            DOI:10.1145/3473368
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            • Mikael Wiberg,
            • Alex Taylor,
            • Daniela Rosner
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