Drivers of Disruption: How Jakarta's Mobility Platform Drivers Understand, Transform and Resist the Algorithms that Manage Them

Leveraging embedded fieldwork with mobility platform drivers in Jakarta this dissertation shows how dreams of technologically-enabled disruption fall apart on the streets of Global South cities. Through the case of platform companies Grab and Gojek, the three essays narrate the domestication of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Qadri, Rida
Other Authors: Ferreira Jr., Joseph
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146296