⼈ ⇄ 幽灵：作为本地人，异乡人和游荡者的外卖员们 / HUMAN ⇄ GHOST: Food Delivery Drivers As Locals, Strangers, And Wanderers – PSA

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⼈ ⇄ 幽灵：作为本地人，异乡人和游荡者的外卖员们 /
HUMAN ⇄ GHOST: Food Delivery Drivers As Locals, Strangers, And Wanderers/

纪录片，2021，13:31 mins，语言：简中

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科技革新，产业转型和疫情让越来越多的人成为了零工。
Earlier industrial transformation and the epidemic have made more and more people become gig workers.

我先采访了多位在芝加哥工作的外卖员。他们在种族和移民状态的差别导致了他们对这份工作的两级感受。
I interviewed some food delivery drivers from the Ubereats,. Their differences in race and immigration status lead to their polarized feelings about the job.

对于在 The Ubereats 工作的芝加哥本地人来说，这是一份没有社交的“ *幽灵工作”：工作一整天，和真人接触的时间不到5分钟。社交与社群的缺失让人感到自己是一个机器，是一个在算法里不停跳动的渺小参数。
For local people of Chicago who work as Ubereats drivers, they consider this job as “*ghost work”, without social interaction: working all day and contacting real people for less than 5 minutes. The lack of social regularity and community makes people feel like a machine or a small parameter that keeps beating in the algorithm.

对于华人新移民来说，他们是“ *异乡人”，生活在语言和文化壁垒里，这样的幽灵工作为他们提供了一个庇护所，成为了在生活美国，却抽离于美国文化的一种方式。在一些非算法驱动的中餐外卖平台，已经构建出了有趣的熟人社会。
The new Chinese immigrants are “ *strangers”, living in language and cultural barriers. Such ghost work, a job not required of speaking English, provide them with shelter, becoming a strategy of living in the United States but away from American culture. On some non-algorithm-driven Chinese food delivery platforms, interesting acquaintance societies have been constructed.

最后，我遇到了一位在伦敦的保加利亚新移民外卖员，他把送外卖理解成一种地理上不受拘束的自由工作，允许他彻底成为一个流动的个体。他最近决定住进房车里，在不同的地方从事外卖员的工作，借此周游英国以至于世界。 (这一部分还在制作中)
Finally, I met a new immigrant from Bulgaria, he is now an Ubereats driver in London. He considers this as a job geographically unconstrained, allowing him to completely become a liquid individual, floating around the world. He recently decided to live in an RV and work as a delivery worker in different places, so as to travel around the UK and the world. （This part is still WIP）

我希望这个作品可以提供全球化视角的对于零工平台的多元解读，并且提问，算法孕育了以高度流动性为特征的幽灵工作，为我们的生活提供了何种新的可能性？
I hope that this work can provide multiple opinions of the gig platform from a global perspective, and I also ask, what kind of new possibilities now we have with the ghost work characterized by high mobility?

* 幽灵工作, 引自 Ghost Work, Book by Mary L. Gray
*Ghost work, from Ghost Work, Book by Mary L. Gray

*异乡人, 引自 The Stranger，an essay in sociology by Georg Simmel,
*Stranger, from The Stranger, Georg Simmel