Vili Lehdonvirta
Vili Lehdonvirta is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford[1]. He is also Hugh Price Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, an associate member of the Department of Sociology, Oxford and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, London.
Lehdonvirta is an economic sociologist, whose research draws on theories and approaches from economic sociology, new institutional economics, labour sociology, and science and technology studies. His research focuses on digital technologies - such as apps, platforms, and marketplaces - are governed, how they shape the organisation of economic activities, and the resulting implications for workers, consumers, businesses, and policy.
Research
Lehonvirta is the principal investigator of iLabour[2], a major research project on online freelancing and the gig economy, funded by the European Research Council. He also leads research projects on online labour markets' effects in rural areas[3] and crowdworkers'[4]skill development.
Trivia
In a 2011, Joshua Davis, a New Yorker journalist, had claimed that Lehdonvirta might be the true identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous responsible for the development of bitcoin.[5] Lehdonvirta denied this association in the same article.
References
- ^ "Professor Vili Lehdonvirta — Oxford Internet Institute". www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
- ^ "iLabour project".
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Davis, Joshua (2011-10-03). "The Crypto-Currency". ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
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