Publications – Alexandra Claudia Mateescu

Alexandra Claudia Mateescu

Publications

Reports and Policy Briefs

Nguyen, Aiha and Alexandra Mateescu. “Generative AI and Labor: Power, Hype, and Value at Work,” Data & Society, 2024.
Mateescu, Alexandra. “Explainer: Challenging Worker Datafication,” Data & Society, 2023.
Mateescu, Alexandra. “Electronic Visit Verification: The Weight of Surveillance and the Fracturing of Care.” Data & Society, 2021.
Mateescu, Alexandra, Serena Oduro, and Brittany Smith. “Policy Brief: Electronic Visit Verification: A Guide to Intersecting Harms and Policy Consequences.” Data & Society, November 2021.
Mateescu, Alexandra, and Aiha Nguyen. “Explainer: Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance,” Data & Society, February 2019.
Mateescu, Alexandra, and Aiha Nguyen.”Explainer: Algorithmic Management in the Workplace,” Data & Society, February 2019.
Mateescu, Alexandra, and Madeleine Elish. “AI in Context: The Labor of Integrating New Technologies.” Data & Society, January 2019.
Julia Ticona, Alexandra Mateescu and Alex Rosenblat. “Beyond Disruption: How Tech Shapes Labor Across Domestic Work & Ridehailing.” Data & Society, June 2018.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

(Under Review) Mateescu, Alexandra, Sanjay Pinto and Zoe West. “From Fashion Model to AI Model: Frameworks for Envisioning Fashion Workers’ Rights over their Image,” Cornell ILR Review Special Issue.
Multiple authors, “Worker Data Collectives as a means to Improve Accountability, Combat Surveillance and Reduce Inequalities,” In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’24).
Mateescu, Alexandra. “Working against the clock: digital surveillance in US Medicaid homecare services.” Journal of Sociology (2024): 14407833231226097.
Ticona, Julia, and Alexandra Mateescu. “Trusted strangers: Carework platforms’ cultural entrepreneurship in the on-demand economy.” New Media & Society 20, no. 11 (2018): 4384-4404.
Mateescu, Alexandra and Julia Ticona.”Invisible work, visible workers.” in Beyond the algorithm: Qualitative insights for gig work regulation. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Alexandra Mateescu and Alex Rosenblat. “Dreams of accountability, guaranteed surveillance: The promises and costs of body-worn cameras,”Surveillance & society 14, no. 1 (2016): 122-127.

Public Writing

Mateescu, Alexandra, Zoe West, and Sanjay Pinto. “Fashion’s Data Doubles: How AI is Reshaping Modeling Work,” Points Blog, September 2025.
Mateescu, Alexandra. “New Technologies Require Thinking More Expansively About Protecting Workers,” Tech Policy Press, March 2024.
Multiple authors. “Thinking and Reading at the Intersection of Labor, Race, and Tech.” Data & Society, January 2023.
Eubanks, Virginia and Alexandra Mateescu. “We don’t deserve this’: new app places US caregivers under digital surveillance.” The Guardian, July 2021.
Mateescu, Alexandra and Virginia Eubanks. “‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers.” The Guardian, June 2021.
Qadri, Rida and Alexandra Mateescu. “Uber and Lyft: woo drivers with stable pay, not short-term honeypots.” The Guardian, June 2021.
Mateescu, Alexandra. “Carework under Crisis: COVID-19 is Exacerbating the Care Crisis in Society,” Points Blog, April 2020.
Ticona, Julia, and Alexandra Mateescu. “How Domestic Workers Wager Safety In The Platform Economy.” Fast Company, March 2018.
Mateescu, Alexandra. “Who Cares in the Gig Economy?,” Points Blog, July 2017.
Mateescu, Alexandra. “Hostile Architecture—Electronic Monitoring.”Public Seminar, February 2016.

Select Press

Monica Torres, “Experts Warn This Real-World Effect Is the Most Unsettling Thing about ‘AI Actor’ Tilly Norwood,” Huffington Post, October 2025.
Alyssa Hardy, “AI Could Have Terrifying Impacts on Fashion Models, New Research Shows,” Teen Vogue, September 2025.
Tonya Engst, “Models feel hemmed in by AI,” Cornell Chronicle, September 2025.
Hubert Guillaud, “How AI is making it easier to exploit workers,” Vox Europ, January 2025.
Miriam Shestack, “Electronic Visit Verification Surveils Homecare Workers and Clients,” OnLabor, June 2022.
Pelayo de las Heras, “Carebots, ¿la última frontera del cuidado?” Ethic Magazine, April 2022.

Policy Writing

Multiple authors, Response to the White House OSTP’s Request for Information on Automated Worker Surveillance and Management, June 2023.
Multiple authors, Response to the FTC’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security, November 2022
Serena Oduro, Brittany Smith, and Alexandra Mateescu, Policy Brief: Electronic Visit Verification: A Guide to Intersecting Harms and Policy Consequences, November 2021.