Article: The "Not so Hidden" Work of Food Delivery
| dc.contributor.editor | Bareikytė, Miglė | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Bee, Julia | |
| dc.creator | Denecke, Mathias | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-05T09:06:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-05T09:06:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Delivery workers cannot be overlooked. While they shape our cityscapes, this work is often depicted as invisible. Before the backdrop of the discussion about hidden work, the question is: what does invisibility mean in case of food delivery? To explore this, I refer to the perspective of workers writing about their experi- ences in the Workers’ Inquiries. I show that delivery work is characterized by various forms of visibility and invisibility, knowing and not-knowing, as well as awareness and unawareness. Companies like Uber Eats, Foodora or Deliveroo promote the idea of delivery without human workers. For courier drivers them- selves, the algorithmic organization of their work proves to be opaque; at the same time, they are dependent on the app interface. For delivery services, work- ers whose location and delivery times are captured are transparent. And custom- ers may take the convenience of delivery for granted. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23314 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/25099 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | universi – Universitätsverlag Siegen | |
| dc.publisher.place | Siegen | |
| dc.relation.isPartOf | issn:1619-1641 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 | |
| dc.subject | Work | en |
| dc.subject | Food Delivery | en |
| dc.subject.ddc | ddc:302.23 | |
| dc.title | The "Not so Hidden" Work of Food Delivery | en |
| dc.type | article | |
| dc.type.status | publishedVersion | |
| dspace.entity.type | Article | |
| local.coverpage | 2024-12-06T02:38:45 | |
| local.source.epage | 148 | |
| local.source.issue | 2 | |
| local.source.spage | 135 | |
| local.source.volume | 24 | |
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