Crowdwork, digital liminality and the enactment of culturally recognised alternatives to Western precarity: beyond epistemological terra nullius

Research on crowdwork in developing countries often treats it through Western theories of precarity. This study examines Nigerian crowdworkers through their lived experience and shows how workers can transition and transform crowdwork into longer-term employment by drawing on cultural heritage, social norms and traditions.

Crowdworkers in Nigeria can transform crowdwork into longer-term employment and draw on cultural resources and social norms. The study conceptualises this as liminal digital work and identifies three phases in the transformation process.