This chapter shifts the focus to everyday individual resistance and the micro-politics of negotiation and survival under algorithmic domination. Drawing on my two-stage ethnographic research, I identify three modes of individualised resistance—dodging algorithms, leveraging algorithmic loopholes, and subverting platform expectations—which workers employ to tactically reclaim autonomy. These fragmented and often invisible forms of resistance constitute what I term a ‘tug-of-war’ dynamic, in which platforms continuously update algorithmic systems to suppress worker strategies, prompting further adaptations by workers. This co-evolution reveals resistance not as a static act but as an ongoing dialectic within the contested terrain of the digital workplace.

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Everyday Algorithmic Resistance

  • Hui Huang

摘要

This chapter shifts the focus to everyday individual resistance and the micro-politics of negotiation and survival under algorithmic domination. Drawing on my two-stage ethnographic research, I identify three modes of individualised resistance—dodging algorithms, leveraging algorithmic loopholes, and subverting platform expectations—which workers employ to tactically reclaim autonomy. These fragmented and often invisible forms of resistance constitute what I term a ‘tug-of-war’ dynamic, in which platforms continuously update algorithmic systems to suppress worker strategies, prompting further adaptations by workers. This co-evolution reveals resistance not as a static act but as an ongoing dialectic within the contested terrain of the digital workplace.