Book

Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age, 2022, Oxford University Press. [Order]

Peer-Reviewed & Book chapters

Ticona, Julia. 2022. “Red Flags, Sob Stories, and Scams: The Contested Meaning of Governance on Carework Labor Platforms.” New Media & Society.

Yang, Tian; Ticona, Julia; and Yphtach Lelkes. 2021. “Policing the Digital Divide: Institutional Gatekeeping and Criminalizing Digital Inclusion.” Journal of Communication.

Ticona, Julia; Mateescu, Alexandra. 2020. “Invisible Work, Visible Workers: Visibility Regimes in Online Platforms for Domestic Work.” In Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Regulating Gig Work, ed. Deepa Das Acevedo, Cambridge University Press.

Ticona, Julia; Mateescu, Alexandra. 2018. “Trusted Strangers: Cultural Entrepreneurship on Domestic Work Platforms in the On-Demand Economy.” New Media & Society.

Macekura, Stephen; McRorie, Christina; Cebul, Brent; Ticona, Julia; Maiers, Claire; Elias, Allison; O’Connor, Jonathan, and Ethan Schrum.  2016. “The Relationship of Morals and Markets Today: A Review of Recent Scholarship on the Culture of Economic Life.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 99(2):136–70.

Ticona, Julia. 2015. “Strategies of Control: Workers’ Use of ICTs to Shape Knowledge and Service Work.” Information, Communication & Society 18(5):509–23.

Other Publications

Ticona, Julia. 2021. “Smartphones are a New Tax on the Poor.” Wired Magazine.

Ticona, Julia. 2020. “Essential & Untrusted.” Dissent Magazine.

Ticona, Julia and Alexandra Mateescu. 2018. “How Domestic Workers Wager Safety In The Platform Economy.” Fast Company Magazine.

Ticona, Julia, Alexandra Mateescu, Alex Rosenblat. 2018. “Beyond Disruption: How Tech Shapes Labor Across Domestic Work & Ridehailing.” Report, Data & Society Research Institute.

Ticona, Julia and Andrew Selbst. 2017. “The Supreme Court Must Understand: Cell Phones Aren’t Optional”. Wired Magazine.

Ticona, Julia. 2016. “Phones but No Papers.” Points, Data & Society, Medium.

 Ticona, Julia. 2016. “New Apps like Jornalero Aim to Protect Low-Income Workers. Here’s How They Could Backfire,” Slate Magazine.

·      Republished, 2016, “We Need to Protect Low Wage Workers – and There May Not be an App for That,” New America Weekly, Edition 116.

Ticona, Julia. 2015. “The Future of Work: The Digital Hustle,” The Pacific Standard.

Ticona, Julia. 2015. Letter to the Editor Re: Sherry Turkle's Reclaiming Conversation. The New York Times.

Ticona, Julia and An Xiao Mina. 2015. “Thinking Past the Digital Divide.” The Civicist.

Ticona, Julia and Chad Wellmon. 2015. “Uneasy in Digital Zion.” The Hedgehog Review 17(1):58–71.