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How Uber disrupted Washington, D.C.
The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regulators and to win in the realm of local politics.
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PUP Speaks: Emily Hund on the rise of the influencer industry
The rising popularity of the social media influencer has significantly reshaped culture, the flow of information, and the way we relate to ourselves and each other.
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Uber’s view of urban life
For years, Diana, who has lived her whole life in the D.C. area, took jobs at fast-food restaurants even though she hated the work. When she started to drive for Uber in 2016, she told us she was enthusiastic about its potential to free her from a reliance on fast-food jobs. Diana was conflicted about Uber, however.
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Will social scientists’ disputes over words ever end?
Social scientists observe the social world. They measure and represent it. They advance and test truth claims about it. For these purposes, they classify things, they sort them into classes, they draw distinctions among them.
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The everyday surveillance of undocumented immigrants
Undocumented immigrants live within a tangled web of institutional surveillance that both threatens and maintains their societal presence as they deal with life’s ups and downs.