BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Speaker: \; Steve SawyerBuilding from a multi-year panel st udy of online freelance\nworkers\, the focus of this talk is to discuss th e ways in which extensive data\ncollection enables online labor platforms to sustain their ‘market-making’\nroles. To do this we use Upwork.com\nas an example of a market-making platform. Working from four examples of the\ nways in which Upwork uses data from job seekers (freelancers) and job pos ters\n(clients)\, we highlight the importance of algorithms\, discuss issu es with the\nopacity of these algorithms\, and highlight how freelancers a re adapting to the\nrealities of these algorithmic arrangements.\n\n \ ;\n\nSteve Sawyer \;is on the faculty of Syracuse University’s\nSchool of \;Information Studies. His research focuses on the changing forms\ nof work and \;organizing enabled through uses of information and\ncom munication technologies. This \;is done through detailed field-based\n studies of scientific \;collaborators\, software \;developers\, re al estate\nagents\, police officers\, organizational technologists\, \ ;and other\ninformation-intensive work settings. \; \;He \;has also been active in\nadvancing sociotechnical approaches to \;studyin g computing collectively\nknown as social informatics and emphasizing the& nbsp\;sociotechnical basis of\ndigital technologies. Sawyer’s work is publ ished in a \;range of venues and\nsupported by funds from the National Science \;Foundation\, \;IBM\,\nCorning\, and a number of other p ublic and private sponsors. Prior\nto \;returning to Syracuse\, Steve was a founding faculty member of \;the\nPennsylvania \;State Unive rsity’s College of Information Sciences and\nTechnology. He earned \;h is Doctorate from Boston University in 1995.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \nZ oom link: https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/j/99791093967?pwd=OFJWVFBZTkR oZzltMnFOK1NtRXdTdz09Any questions\, please contact Lynnell Cabezas at&nbs p\;lncabeza@syr.edu DTEND:20211013T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260312T172159Z DTSTART:20211013T190000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Market-Making Algorithms: Insights from a Multi-Year Study of Onlin e Freelancing via Upwork.Com UID:RFCALITEM639089185197146763 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Speaker: \; Steve Sawyer


Building from a multi-year panel study of online freelance\nwork ers\, the focus of this talk is to discuss the ways in which extensive dat a\ncollection enables online labor platforms to sustain their ‘market-maki ng’\nroles. To do this we use Upwork.com\n as an example of a market-making platform. Working from four examples of t he\nways in which Upwork uses data from job seekers (freelancers) and job posters\n(clients)\, we highlight the importance of algorithms\, discuss i ssues with the\nopacity of these algorithms\, and highlight how freelancer s are adapting to the\nrealities of these algorithmic arrangements.\n\n&nb sp\;


\n\nSteve Sawyer \;is on the faculty of S yracuse University’s\nSchool of \;Information Studies. His research fo cuses on the changing forms\nof work and \;organizing enabled through uses of information and\ncommunication technologies. This \;is done th rough detailed field-based\nstudies of scientific \;collaborators\, so ftware \;developers\, real estate\nagents\, police officers\, organiza tional technologists\, \;and other\ninformation-intensive work setting s. \; \;He \;has also been active in\nadvancing sociotechnical approaches to \;studying computing collectively\nknown as social info rmatics and emphasizing the \;sociotechnical basis of\ndigital technol ogies. Sawyer’s work is published in a \;range of venues and\nsupporte d by funds from the National Science \;Foundation\, \;IBM\,\nCorni ng\, and a number of other public and private sponsors. Prior\nto \;re turning to Syracuse\, Steve was a founding faculty member of \;the\nPe nnsylvania \;State University’s College of Information Sciences and\nT echnology. He earned \;his Doctorate from Boston University in 1995.\n \n \;\n\n \;\n


\n \nZoom link: https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/j/99791093967?pwd=O FJWVFBZTkRoZzltMnFOK1NtRXdTdz09


Any questions\, pleas e contact Lynnell Cabezas at \;lncabeza@syr.edu

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