id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
spir-11347	Ticona, Julia; Tsapatsaris, Ryan	PLATFORM COUNTERPUBLICS: GOSSIP & CONTESTED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ONLINE LABOR PLATFORMS	2020.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1263	91	51	Second, we point to the implications of platform counterpublics for the investigation of platform labor and algorithms. Extending counterpublics theories (Warner 2002; Fraser 1990), we examine over 3,000 online reviews of a labor platform, Care.com, finding that both workers and clients use gossip to create a platform counterpublic that constructs a counternarrative about platform business practices.1 While previous studies suggest that different platform stakeholders have conflicting interests, we find that platform counterpublics draw both workers and clients together to draw boundaries demarcating acceptable platform business practices.	cache/spir-11347.pdf	txt/spir-11347.txt