Notes from 03.31 meeting

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Prelminary objectives, RQs, and examples of research publications using platform company data: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCc8dQ3gx2fKrlJf5K8okqW9oyybze4d6c_kVt3q7AY/edit

Tracing policy impacts https://www.everycrsreport.com/

Uber movement: https://movement.uber.com/?lang=en-US

Areas of research

Economics
Industrial labor relations
Transportation
environmental impacts
public policy
safety - city, pedestrian,
studies are usually about trips, wages, environmental impact

PRISMA protocol checklist http://prisma-statement.org/documents/PRISMA_2020_checklist.pdf

Intermediate deadline Tues night (04.04.2023): Title, Introduction (rationale, objective, RQs)
We will use next week’s meeting to discuss our draft, develop and test search queries
Draft protocol is linked out on the Research protocol page

3 papers to read for next week (04.07.2023) :

Maffie, M. D. (2023). The mythology of ‘Big Data’ as a source of corporate power. British Journal of Industrial Relations, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12728
https://www.promarket.org/2019/12/05/ubers-academic-research-program-how-to-use-famous-economists-to-spread-corporate-narratives/
https://medium.com/@gigeconomyresearchersunited/open-letter-and-principles-for-ethical-research-on-the-gig-economy-3cd27924cc08

What to do with the readings…

How to motivate a study (as the one described above)
Questions to ask
Identify (from authors) what is unknown / valuable to fill in
Substantiate conjectures

Potential databases that are searched in a systematic review:

Web of Science
Scopus
PubMed
IEEE digital library (often redundant)
ACM digital library (often redundant)

A few examples of systematic reviews