Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Graham, M., & Ferrari, F. (2025). Введение к книге «Цифровая работа на планетарном рынке». In ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ СОЦИОЛОГИЯ (2 ed., Vol. 26, pp. 82-101). (Ekonomicheskaya Sotsiologiya). [DOI]
Ferrari, F. (2025). The Governance of Generative AI: Three Conditions for Research and Policy. In J. van Dijck, K. van Es, A. Helmond, & F. van der Vlist (Eds.), Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values (pp. 129-148). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI] [Portal]
Ferrari, F., Dijck, J. V., & Bosch, A. V. D. (2025). Observe, inspect, modify: Three conditions for generative AI governance. New Media and Society, 27(5), 2788-2806. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Scholarly publications

López, T., Ustek-Spilda, F., Feuerstein, P., Ferrari, F., & Graham, M. (2024). The Fairwork Project: Promoting Good Labor Practices in the Digital Platform Economy through Action Research. In M. T. Schäfer, K. van Es , & T. P. Lauriault (Eds.), Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention (pp. 149-160). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI] [Portal]
Katta, S., Ferrari, F., Van doorn, N., & Graham, M. (2024). Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy. Environment and Planning A, 56(4), 1102-1112. [DOI] [Portal]
Ferrari, F., Bertolini, A., Borkert, M., & Graham, M. (2024). The German platform economy: Strict regulations but unfair standards? Digital Geography and Society, 6, Article 100084. [DOI] [Repository]
van der Vlist, F., Helmond, A., & Ferrari, F. (2024). Big AI: Cloud infrastructure dependence and the industrialisation of artificial intelligence. Big Data & Society, 11(1), 1-16. [DOI] [Repository]
Ferrari, F. (2024). State roles in platform governance: AI’s regulatory geographies. Competition and Change, 28(2), 340-358. [DOI] [Repository]

Professional publications

Ferrari, F., van Dijck, J., & van den Bosch, A. (2024). Conditional computing: A new paradigm for public-interest AI in the EU. In Time to build a European digital ecosystem: Recommendations for the EU's digital policy (pp. 52-29). FEPS / Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. [Portal]
Ferrari, F. (2024). A progressive vision for generative AI. In Progressive Yearbook 2024 (pp. 73-78). Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). https://feps-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/8.-The-age-of-digital-democracy.-A-progressive-vision-for-generative-AI.pdf [Repository]

2023

Scholarly publications

Van der Vlist, F. N., Helmond, A., & Ferrari, F. (2023). BIG AI: THE CLOUD AS MARKETPLACE AND INFRASTRUCTURE. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. [DOI]
Ferrari, F. (2023). Neural production networks: AI’s infrastructural geographies. Environment and Planning F, 2(4), 459–476. [DOI] [Repository]
Ferrari, F., Dijck, J. V., & Bosch, A. V. D. (2023). Foundation models and the privatization of public knowledge. Nature Machine Intelligence, 5(8), 818–820. [DOI] [Repository]
Howson, K., Johnston, H., Cole, M., Ferrari, F., Ustek-Spilda, F., & Graham, M. (2023). Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks. Global Networks, 23(4), 732-754. [DOI] [Repository]
van Doorn, N., Ferrari, F., & Graham, M. (2023). Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention. Work, Employment and Society, 37(4), 1099-1111. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

Ferrari, F., & McKelvey, F. (2022). Hyperproduction: a social theory of deep generative models. Distinktion, 24(2), 338-360. [DOI]
HOWSON, K., USTEK‐SPILDA, F., BERTOLINI, A., HEEKS, R., FERRARI, F., KATTA, S., COLE, M., AGUERA RENESES, P., SALEM, N., SUTCLIFFE, D., STEWARD, S., & GRAHAM, M. (2022). Sin máscara: las condiciones laborales en las plataformas digitales de trabajo durante la pandemia de COVID‐19. Revista Internacional del Trabajo, 141(3), 457-488. [DOI] [Repository]
HOWSON, K., USTEK‐SPILDA, F., BERTOLINI, A., HEEKS, R., FERRARI, F., KATTA, S., COLE, M., AGUERA RENESES, P., SALEM, N., SUTCLIFFE, D., STEWARD, S., & GRAHAM, M. (2022). Derrière le masque: les conditions de travail des travailleurs des plateformes numériques pendant la pandémie de COVID‐19. Revue internationale du Travail, 161(3), 465-496. [DOI] [Repository]
Graham, M., & Ferrari, F. (2022). Digital work in the planetary market. The MIT Press. [DOI]
Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., Bertolini, A., Heeks, R., Ferrari, F., Katta, S., Cole, M., Aguera Reneses, P., Salem, N., Sutcliffe, D., Steward, S., & Graham, M. (2022). Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Labour Review, 161(3), 413-440. [DOI] [Repository]
Howson, K., Ferrari, F., Ustek-Spilda, F., Salem, N., Johnston, H., Katta, S., Heeks, R., & Graham, M. (2022). Driving the digital value network: Economic geographies of global platform capitalism. Global Networks, 22(4), 631-648. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Scholarly publications

Bertolini, A., Borkert, M., Ferrari, F., & Graham, M. (2021). Towards decent work in the digital age: introducing the fairwork project in Germany. Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, 75(2), 187-192. [DOI]
Ferrari, F., & Graham, M. (2021). Fissuras no Poder Algorítmico: plataformas, códigos e contestação. Fronteiras - estudos midiáticos, 23(2), 207-219. [DOI]
Ferrari, F., & Graham, M. (2021). Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation. Cultural Studies, 35(4-5), 814-832. [DOI]