Work of the ‘Unemployed’: A Design Fiction
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This paper presents a design fiction: a research prototype of a platform for unemployed individuals trading their personal data. The design fiction questions the ramifications of an understanding of data as individual property by showing a near-future speculative scenario of what government-driven job placement could look like. Which are the kinds of accountability and agency that could be leveraged in the context of job placement if data of unemployed individuals are considered property that can be traded with the public sector in return for support? An algorithm classifies the performance of unemployed individuals based on the data they upload. This way the algorithm becomes the central mechanism for accountability and control instead of the caseworker, who acts as an arbitrator between the individual citizen and algorithm. Our purpose with this paper, and the speculative research prototype, is to create a space for reflection on dilemmas in relation to data property, accountability, and agency in public services.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work |
Number of pages | 4 |
Publisher | EUSSET |
Publication date | 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - ECSCW 2020 - Siegen, Germany Duration: 13 Jun 2020 → 17 Jun 2020 |
Conference
Conference | 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - ECSCW 2020 |
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Land | Germany |
By | Siegen |
Periode | 13/06/2020 → 17/06/2020 |
Series | Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies |
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Number | 2 |
Volume | 4 |
ISSN | 2510-2591 |
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