Publications
Reports and Policy Briefs
- Mateescu, Alexandra, Aiha Nguyen and Sanjay Pinto, “Last Place in the AI-First Economy: How the AI Industry Relies on Worker Disempowerment,” Data & Society, April 2026.
- 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
