Crafting Visibility and Solidarity

Myriam Raymond () and Paola Tubaro ()
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Myriam Raymond: GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - AGROCAMPUS OUEST - Institut National de l'Horticulture et du Paysage, LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université
Paola Tubaro: CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENSAE Paris - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique - GENES - Groupe des Écoles Nationales d'Économie et Statistique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CREST - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique - ENSAI - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information [Bruz] - GENES - Groupe des Écoles Nationales d'Économie et Statistique - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - ENSAE Paris - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique - GENES - Groupe des Écoles Nationales d'Économie et Statistique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper investigates how micro-task platform workers construct and mobilize their professional digital identity to influence sourcing decisions, navigate platform control, and foster forms of solidarity. In contexts where workers are largely invisible to clients and algorithmic decision-making prevails, we explore how identity work operates as a subtle but meaningful form of resistance. We specifically ask: How do workers portray themselves in ways that shape visibility, signal credibility, and build collective ties under conditions of isolation and precarity? Collective digital identity is the shared identity that emerges from the interactions and collaborations of groups within digital spaces. We draw on professional identity theory and collective identity literature to theorize digital identity as a contested space where visibility, legitimacy, and solidarity are co-produced.

Keywords: Digital; Platforms; -; Professional; Identity; -; Visibity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-09-10
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Published in International Network f Digital Labor 8, INDL, Sep 2025, Bologna (ITALY), Italy

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