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Vili Lehdonvirta

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Vili Lehdonvirta's Degrees

PhD Economic Sociology University of Helsinki
Masters Economics University of Helsinki

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According to Wikipedia, Vili Lehdonvirta is Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He is also a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, an associate member of the Department of Sociology, Oxford and a former Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, London. Lehdonvirta is an economic sociologist, whose research draws on theories and approaches from economic sociology, new institutional economics, labour sociology, and science and technology studies. His research focuses on digital technologies—such as apps, platforms, and marketplaces—are governed, how they shape the organisation of economic activities, and the resulting implications for workers, consumers, businesses, and policy.

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Vili Lehdonvirta's Published Works

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Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy (2018) (588)
Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods (2017) (519)
Virtual item sales as a revenue model: identifying attributes that drive purchase decisions (2009) (336)
Game Design as Marketing: How Game Mechanics Create Demand for Virtual Goods (2010) (299)
Online Labour Index: Measuring the Online Gig Economy for Policy and Research (2018) (256)
Flexibility in the Gig Economy: Managing Time on Three Online Piecework Platforms (2018) (197)
Workers of the Internet Unite? Online Freelancer Organisation Among Remote Gig Economy Workers in Six Asian and African Countries (2018) (152)
Designing motivation using persuasive ambient mirrors (2011) (136)
The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders (2018) (133)
Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy (2019) (131)
Algorithms that Divide and Unite: Delocalisation, Identity and Collective Action in ‘Microwork’ (2016) (106)
Social Media, Web, and Panel Surveys: Using Non‐Probability Samples in Social and Policy Research (2020) (96)
Real-Money Trade of Virtual Assets: Ten Different User Perceptions (2005) (88)
Using individual, social and economic persuasion techniques to reduce CO2 emissions in a family setting (2009) (85)
Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis (2014) (78)
How do young people identify with online and offline peer groups? A comparison between UK, Spain and Japan (2011) (77)
Virtual Worlds Don't Exist: Questioning the Dichotomous Approach in MMO Studies (2010) (76)
Knowledge Map of the Virtual Economy: Converting the Virtual Economy into Development Potential (2011) (70)
Situated crowdsourcing using a market model (2014) (68)
Reflecting human behavior to motivate desirable lifestyle (2008) (67)
Knowledge Map of the Virtual Economy (2011) (67)
VIRTUAL CONSUMERISM (2009) (65)
A History of the Digitalization of Consumer Culture: From Amazon Through Pirate Bay to Farmville (2013) (60)
Real-Money Trade of Virtual Assets: New Strategies for Virtual World Operators (2008) (58)
Virtual Economics: Applying Economics to the Study of Game Worlds (2005) (52)
Distancing Bonus Or Downscaling Loss? The Changing Livelihood of Us Online Workers in Times of COVID‐19 (2020) (50)
Virtual Consumerism: Case Habbo Hotel (2009) (48)
Online spaces have material culture: goodbye to digital post-materialism and hello to virtual consumption (2010) (48)
Mine the gap: Bitcoin and the maintenance of trustlessness (2018) (41)
Drawing on mobile crowds via social media (2012) (40)
A New Frontier in Digital Content Policy: Case Studies in the Regulation of Virtual Goods and Artificial Scarcity (2010) (37)
The Stoic Male (2012) (36)
Applying pervasive technologies to create economic incentives that alter consumer behavior (2009) (34)
ECOISLAND: A System for Persuading Users to Reduce CO2 Emissions (2009) (34)
Crowdsourcing for Public Policy and Government (2015) (34)
Platform Labour and Structured Antagonism: Understanding the Origins of Protest in the Gig Economy (2019) (33)
A crowdsourcing based mobile image translation and knowledge sharing service (2010) (30)
Identification with Online and Offline Communities: Understanding ICT Disparities in Finland (2011) (25)
Virtual Consumption (2009) (24)
ICTs and the urban-rural divide: can online labour platforms bridge the gap? (2018) (22)
UbiPay: minimizing transaction costs with smart mobile payments (2009) (21)
New digital safety net or just more ‘friendfunding’? Institutional analysis of medical crowdfunding in the United States (2020) (20)
Public Policy in the Platform Society (2017) (18)
Virtuality in the Sphere of Economics (2014) (17)
How many online workers are there in the world? A data-driven assessment (2021) (16)
Prosocial behaviour in avatar‐mediated interaction: the influence of character gender on material versus emotional help‐giving (2011) (15)
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market (2021) (14)
Platform Precarity: Surviving Algorithmic Insecurity in the Gig Economy (2021) (14)
Collecting conversations: three approaches to obtaining user-to-user communications data from virtual environments (2011) (14)
Identity and self-organization in unstructured work (2013) (13)
Antagonism Beyond Employment: How the ‘Subordinated Agency’ of Labour Platforms Generates Conflict in the Remote Gig Economy (2021) (13)
Do Digital Skill Certificates Help New Workers Enter the Market? Evidence from an Online Labour Platform (2019) (13)
Lifestyle Ubiquitous Gaming: Making Daily Lives More Plesurable (2007) (12)
Dynamics of Contention in the Gig Economy: Rage Against the Platform, Customer, or State? (2021) (11)
Social Media, Web, and Panel Surveys: Using Non- Probability Samples in Social and Policy Research (2020) (10)
Literature Review: Skills Formation and Skills Matching in Online Platform Work: Policies and Practices for Promoting Crowdworkers’ Continuous Learning (CrowdLearn) (2018) (9)
When Motivation Becomes Desperation: Online Freelancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) (9)
Pink and Blue Pixel$: Gender and Economic Disparity in Two Massive Online Games (2014) (9)
Using Aesthetic and Empathetic Expressions to Motivate Desirable Lifestyle (2008) (8)
Tracking behavior in persuasive apps: is sensor-based detection always better than user self-reporting? (2009) (8)
Activity-Based Micro-pricing: Realizing Sustainable Behavior Changes through Economic Incentives (2010) (8)
Ubipay: conducting everyday payments with minimum user involvement (2008) (7)
Cloud Empires (2022) (7)
Mobile Image Search via Local Crowd: A User Study (2011) (7)
Skills Formation and Skills Matching in Online Platform Work (2019) (6)
The Internet and public policy: Future directions (2021) (5)
Taxing Earnings from the Platform Economy: An EU Digital Single Window for Income Data? (2020) (5)
Freelancing Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) (4)
The Polarisation of Remote Work (2021) (4)
Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles In The Remote Gig Economy (2022) (2)
European Union Data Protection Directive: Adequacy of Data Protection in Singapore (2006) (2)
A Digital Media Approach to Islamic Marketing (2011) (2)
Drawing on mobile crowds via social media (2011) (2)
Do Microcredentials Help New Workers Enter the Market? Evidence from an Online Labor Platform (2018) (2)
Past and Emerging Themes in Policy and Internet Studies (2014) (2)
Razing the Virtual Glass Ceiling: Gendered Economic Disparity in Two Massive Online Games (Also Featured in Virtual Conference) (2012) (2)
The global polarisation of remote work (2021) (1)
The future of unpaid work: Estimating the effects of automation on time spent on housework and care work in Japan and the UK (2022) (1)
What is the Price of a Skill? Revealing the Complementary Value of Skills (2022) (1)
The future(s) of unpaid work: How susceptible do experts from different backgrounds think the domestic sphere is to automation? (2022) (1)
On the Creation of Standards for Interaction Between Robots and Virtual Worlds (2009) (1)
Gold Farming (2019) (1)
Changing Models of Work in the Digital Platform Economy (2019) (1)
Global Online Labour Markets: Theoretical Perspectives and Initial Findings (2016) (0)
Work Alerts and Personal Bests: Managing Time in the Online Gig Economy (2017) (0)
What is the Price of a Skill? The Value of Complementarity (2022) (0)
A system for information representation which reflects dailyactivities by using physical sensors in the information explosion era #2 (2008) (0)
Like it or not, digital empires are here to stay [regulars - columnist] (2022) (0)
IV Virtual Consumerism : Case Habbo Hotel (2013) (0)
Designing motivation using persuasive ambient mirrors (2011) (0)
Working Paper Series Number 1 Identity and Self-Organization in Unstructured Work (2013) (0)
Marketization and Agency: Freedom and Self-Control in Low-Status Online Contract Work (2014) (0)
Can Labour Market Digitalization Increase Social Mobility? Evidence from a European Survey of Online Platform Workers (2021) (0)
The Video Game Theory Reader 2 (2008) (0)
The uneven potential of online platform work for human development at the global margins (2021) (0)
After the gig: How the sharing economy got hijacked and how to win it backJulietSchorUniversity of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2020. (2022) (0)
5. Global earnings disparities in remote platform work: liabilities of origin?1 (2021) (0)
Algorithms T hat D ivide and Unite : Delocalization , I dentity , and C ollective A ction in ‘ M icrowork ’ (2015) (0)

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