Julian Posada

Julian Posada

Assistant Professor

Yale University

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University and a Just Tech Fellow at the Social Science Research Council. My research centers on the social and cultural dimensions of information, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between labor and the development of artificial intelligence.

My book, under contract with the University of California Press, investigates the interplay between human labor and data production in the AI industry with a focus on Latin American data work and the emergence of digital platforms as infrastructures that facilitate extractivism in the region.

My academic articles have been published in journals including Big Data & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, and the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. My research and commentary have appeared in media outlets including The Economist, Fortune, WIRED, the MIT Tech Review, and NBC. My research has been supported by the International Development Research Centre and the Social Science Research Council, with funding from the McArthur, Ford, and Surdna foundations.

I hold a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Toronto and have held visiting appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Weizenbaum Institute.

Interests
  • Platform Labor
  • Data Studies
  • Social Computing
  • Digital Ethics
  • Information Policy
Education
  • Ph.D. in Information Science, 2022

    University of Toronto

  • Master's degree in Sociology, 2018

    School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

  • Maîtrise degree in the Humanities, 2016

    Sorbonne University

Publications

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(2025). Remote Robotics, or the Digital Re-embodiment of Labour. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation.

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(2024). Factors Influencing Trust in Algorithmic Decision-Making. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.

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(2024). Deeply Embedded Wages. Big Data & Society.

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(2023). Labor, Automation, and Human-Machine Communication. The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication.

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(2023). Platform Authority and Data Quality. Decoding Digital Authoritarianism.

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(2022). Documenting Data Production Processes. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2).

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(2022). The Data-Production Dispositif. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2).

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(2022). Embedded Reproduction in Platform Data Work. Information, Communication & Society, 25(6).

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(2022). Studying Up Machine Learning Data. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6 (GROUP).

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(2021). We Haven’t Gone Paperless Yet. AIES ‘21: Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.

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(2021). Why AI Needs Ethics From Below. AI Now Institute.

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(2020). The Future of Work Is Here. Ethics in Context, 56.

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(2020). Platform Labour Discourse. Democratic Communiqué, 29(1).

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(2019). The Platformization of Labor and Society. Society and the Internet, Vol. 2.

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