Caitlin Petre

Caitlin Petre is a postdoctoral fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Her work examines the shifting nature of professional autonomy and managerial authority in the networked digital age. She is currently writing a book about how data analytics are reshaping the practice of journalism. She can be contacted at caitlin.petre@yale.edu.


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Gamifying the Workplace

Anyone who has read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer no doubt remembers the fence-painting scene. Consigned as a punishment by his Aunt Polly to spend a Saturday whitewashing 30 yards of wooden fence, Tom instead recruits neighborhood boys to do the chore for him. He convinces his marks that fence painting—far from being drudgery—is an […]