Fırat, Gökhan (2021) ‘Uberization of translation: Impacts on working conditions’, The Journal of Internationalization and Localization, 8(1): 48-75.

Bio: Gökhan Fırat is a PhD Student and Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Surrey, Centre for Translation Studies and his current research focuses on the collaborative and cooperative forms of human translation (translaboration and transcooperation) within and across digital platforms by exploring their challenges and opportunities and assessing their impacts on translation workers. Before joining the University of Surrey, he worked in the publishing and translation industries for more than ten years as a book translator, editor, copy-editor, project coordinator, operations manager, business development manager, technology consultant and trainer. Gökhan holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting and completed his MA in Translation Studies with a research focusing on the impacts of the current techno-political transformation of the language industry on translation workers. He translated and edited many books into the Turkish language from authors such as Noam Chomsky, Charles Dickens and Arthur Canon Doyle.

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