Although studies on digital labour platforms demonstrated how the internet has opened up access to income opportunities in the developing world, an exploration of how informal workers use the internet to access work without an intermediary is missing. Using data from digital ethnography and interviews with workers in Indonesia, this article examines how platform-based motorcycle taxi drivers and domestic workers accessed work through social media in the time of COVID-19 when the platforms were not allowed to operate. The evidence suggests that while social media can offer increased opportunities for workers, their success was largely dependent on their social networks and bounded by the algorithms designed by platform owners.
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Lifespan Cancer Institute and Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
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Commun Psychol
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School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
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Department of Health Management, Selcuk University Faculty of Health Sciences, Konya, Turkey.
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