From the Editors

Authors

• Elena Esposito Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna; Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3075-292X

  Elena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University and the University of Bologna. Her current research on algorithmic prediction is supported by a five-year Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (https://tinyurl.com/ypxfsav6). Her latest book is Artificial Communication. How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (MIT Press, 2022; Egea, 2022; Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, 2023).

• Ivana Pais Department of Sociology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5125-8701

  Ivana Pais is Full Professor of Economic Sociology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She is the Director of TRAILab -- Transformative Actions Interdisciplinary Laboratory. She is the principal investigator of the ORIGAMI project -- Home Care Digital Platforms and Industrial Relations (2023-2025) funded by DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusions and the principal investigator of the WePlat project Welfare systems in the age of platforms: drivers of change for users, providers and policy makers (2021--2023), funded by Fondazione Cariplo.

• David Stark Department of Sociology, Columbia University (United States) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2435-9619

  David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. Columbia University Press will publish his new edited collection, Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge of the Sociological Craft. Recent publications include The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life (Oxford University Press, 2020), "Moments of Identity: The Dynamics of Artist, Persona, and Audience in Electronic Music" (Theory & Society, 2021), and "Racial Attention Deficit" (Science Advances, 2021).