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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Excited to share that next Thursday (Dec 4) I’ll be giving a masterclass on #AlgorithmicManagement and Workplace Power Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam for the Global Digital Cultures group. If you’re curious to learn more, check out the link below or simply drop me a line.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Curious how #algorithmicmanagement changes the role of managers and workplace power dynamics beyond the gig economy? Me and Sander have something for you! Hope you enjoy it - all feedback is welcome! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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International Labour Review @ilr-rit.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Felicidades, Tiago! 🎉 Forthcoming in our final issue of 2025, this study conducted @eui-eu.bsky.social, helps understand 🇪🇸's efforts to re-embed platform couriers within standard employment relationships. 🌟 Supporting early-career scholarship remains central to our mission. 📚 Read: bit.ly/4nYk4kf

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An incomplete <em>double movement</em>: Spain’s legislative strategy for platform courier reclassification

Digital labour platforms, which have long operated outside conventional employment frameworks, are now facing a regulatory drive. Spain seems to be at the forefront of this international effort, notab...

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Happy to share the first empirical chapter of my PhD thesis accepted for publication - now in the proofs stage at the International Labour Review, the International Labour Organization’s flagship journal!

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

As you may have noticed, earlier this month I defended my PhD. But what was it about? My topic was algorithmic management. Specifically, I tried to answer the question: How does algorithmic management reshape the employment relationship? (TL;DR – see the picture at the end)

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

From yours truly and Pedro Mendonça: an interesting case on its own, but also important in light of EU and ILO recent decisions/recommendations regarding platform work. Hope you enjoy.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Et voila, for years after joining the EUI @eui-eu.bsky.social i went from #PhDoing to #PhDone! 🥳🤓😎

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

#PhDdefense update: it still sounds a bit unreal, but it seems this is really happening! It'll be on June 11, 16:30, in EUI's Teatro. Sadly, there will be no online transmission, but if you're in Florence, you are most welcome to join. For more details 👇 www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

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Quo vadis employment relationship?

PhD thesis defence by Tiago Vieira

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

In an unexpected piece of news, I was surprised by an e-mail from @wiley.com informing me that my article "Platform couriers' self-exploitation: The case study of Glovo" was among top-10 most cited articles published in 2023 in New Technology Work and Employment (@ntwejournal.bsky.social).

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Et voilà, 1281 days after I began this journey called #PhD in the @eui-sps.bsky.social, the moment to submit the dissertation has come! Thanks to all those who, in way or another, made this possible 🫶 Time to get some of it published and look for a job (wink wink, recruiters).

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Some things seem to insist on not changing

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Prakriti Dasgupta @prakritidasgupta.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Excellent presentation by @t-vieira.bsky.social at CERIC Leeds! Watch out for all the amazing work he does 👏🏼🌟

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Interested in algorithmic management and occupational health? Next Wednesday, I’ll be in Leeds presenting my latest work - precisely on that topic - to members of CERIC. If you are interested to know more, you can join online. Details below.

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CERIC @ceric-lubs.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

On the 26th February, Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social will be delivering a hybrid CERIC Seminar on "Empirical insights into the contested relation between Occupational Safety and Health and Algorithmic Management". For more info and (free!) tickets see www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ceric-semi...

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CERIC Seminar - Tiago Vieira, "A kind of magic?"

Empirical insights into the contested relation between Occupational Safety and Health and Algorithmic Management

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Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

While i think that things can get worse if AfD gets to power it’s noteworthy that in Germany (as in several other countries where the far right is NOT in power) key defining democratic elements have been only selectively upheld. A university banning a UN rapporteur is just the most recent example.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Immeasurable, indeed. May Michael’s many talents and legacy pass on to present and future generations of sociologists.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Interesting example of people at once being anti-Trump for reconfiguring the American imperial interference, neocolonial machine and buying and amplifying the discourse of China as main threat to American security. The road to the much need true alternative to authoritarian neoliberalism is long!

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Besides what really matters in all this, someone has to study the sudden and unexpected rise of a *what-goes-around-comes-around-baby morality of copyright* so cristal clear in the debates on DeepSeek!

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Oh, now AI is bad, after all? Interesting times to be alive.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Imagine a world where you lost the possibility to change, to know and to be new things, to deviate from the mean of data points similar to you (including your past self) while having your every move and choice recorded to feed some weird entity’s database. Can’t wait not to get there.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Delighted to have presented and discussed my thesis on #algorithmicmanagement beyond platform work with the team of ⁦‪CoLABOR (colabor.pt) this morning in the sunny Lisbon. Plenty of thought-provoking questions and comments to keep improving and develop new ideas for once the PhD is PhDone!

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I can already see how in a few years news headlines of “sucess stories” will be like “until the algorithm do us part” or “the children of the algorithm”. But i’m more convinced that a more realistic angle will probably be “the algorithm will tear us apart” 🙃

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

In 2025, I will - for the first time - (co-)teach a course at the University of Porto. The sessions under my direct responsibility will explore what AI is and how it is impacting contemporary societies. Centered on work relations, we will touch upon credit, welfare, police, justice and warfare, too.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I know it's not a *proper* landmark, but bear with me as I self-congratulate for finishing the first draft of my PhD thesis! 🥳 73626 words 7 chapters (5 of which empirical) 239 pages 397 works cited Time to touch the grass and dream of a world with only minor revisions.

Ewan McGregor getting exiting a toilet in Trainspotting

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The #PlatformWorkDirective is here and the clock is ticking for states to implement it. But will everything go smoothly? In this commentary, Pedro Mendonça and I offer our view. www.socialeurope.eu/eu-pushes-to...

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EU pushes to reclassify platform workers, but how will platforms react?

The EU’s Platform Work Directive aims to end worker misclassification, but its success depends on platform compliance.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Major victory for Spanish Government as Glovo says it will (finally) comply with the law and classify couriers as employees. A major worry now is what will happen to the undocumented workers that for years were the backbone of the company’s operation. Action needed! abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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Drivers for Spanish food delivery app Glovo will become full-time employees

Thousands of delivery drivers in Spain working for the food delivery app Glovo will soon be full employees after the company announced that it was moving to an employment-based model

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Post-doc job market ads be like We expect: Expertise in Quali & Quanti methods Teaching experience Availability for large fieldwork periods far away That you teach, supervise theses, write up grants, take admin roles and publish papers We offer: Part-time contract for 1.5 years (not renewable)

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

AI-powered Jesus just dropped. Haters will say claims of turning water into wine are part of the hallucinations of LLMs. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus

Peter’s chapel in Lucerne swaps out its priest to set up a computer and cables in confessional booth

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

So, Uber wants to “uberize” some of its data work. Besides the obvious attempt to move further away from workers’ rights a la Amazon, I hope this backfires by creating spaces and incentives for coalitions across different occupations working for the company.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Here we go again. Adapting to survive. Interested to see how Uber will offload costs onto the burdens of others (mainly workers, of course) to keep itself alive in the Dutch market.

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New Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We've migrated on to Bluesky, so please follow us to hear the lastest from "New Technology, Work and Employment". Please repost so that people can find us and hear about the latest articles and news from the journal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468...

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Please print this and post everywhere: real life complexity cannot be reduced to data points on a statistic model no matter how complex it is. Even if AI can help us shed light on trends and patterns they are not god-like answers to everything - probably to nothing in relation to human behavior.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Very soon we’ll see a chatbot interviewer interviewing a chatbot interviewee and whatever “data” comes out of that analyzed and written up in form of a publishable manuscript by an LLM. This will be called AI social fiction or algorithmic magic realism, but surely not science.

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is a great opportunity for feedback and for attending the broader conference without straining your already scarce budget. As someone who attended last year, I say: if you are eligible, go for it!

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

📣New paper out! How do digital platforms change when mandated to reclassify workers as employees? In our new research published in Socio-Economic Review, Pedro Mendonça and I examine how #Glovo, #UberEats, and #JustEat responded during the first year of the Spanish #LeyRider. (link at the bottom)

Picture depicts a print screen of the article's first page. It includes the title "The times, are they changing? Examining platform companies' chameleonic labour process as a response to the Spanish Ley Rider"; the authors, Tiago Vieira and Pedro Mendonca; and the abstract: "This article investigates the effects of the Spanish initiative to deploy a universal presumption of employment relationship for all platform couriers (Ley Rider). Drawing from 36 semi-structured interviews and several non-participant observations in Spain, this article shows that the impact of this initiative has been positive but limited. The eradication of bogus self-employment is a positive development, as it allows workers to access safety nets such as social security and employment rights while preserving valued aspects of their employment model like flexible scheduling. However, this progress is undermined by the platforms' efforts to circumvent regulations through what we term a ‘chameleonic labour process’. Such chameleonic behaviour on the part of the platforms includes: outsourcing labour operations to other companies; maintaining the independent contractor model; and, condoning undocumented work. Despite some progress, workers continue to face insecurity and low wages across all platforms, albeit in varying degrees and in different forms."

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