Abasteciendo con datos las apuestas deportivas online: data scouts y extractivismo ampliado

• Souto Salom, Julio ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal da Bahia

     Universidade Federal da Bahia

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Athenea Digital: revista de pensamiento e investigación social, ISSN-e 1578-8946, Vol. 24, Nº. 3, 2024
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/athenea.3483
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Supplying Data for Online Sports Betting: Data Scouts and Expanded Extractivism
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  • español

    Las plataformas de apuestas deportivas online ofrecen infinidad de partidos en vivo, de todo tipo de deportes, categorías y lugares del mundo, posibilitando apuestas recurrentes y simultáneas a los partidos. Para abastecer con datos este mercado, empresas especializadas producen en vivo bases de datos veloces, detalladas y confiables. Los data scouts son profesionales entrenados para generar feeds de datos desde los estadios con aplicaciones celulares específicas. Realizamos una etnografía con un grupo de data scouts en Brasil, en diálogo con estudios sociales sobre apuestas deportivas online y trabajo digital en el capitalismo de plataformas. Comparados a otros trabajadores de plataformas, los data scouts se consideran privilegiados por su alta remuneración (pagos en euro) y espacio afectivo valorizado (deporte, especialmente fútbol). Sin tensiones competitivas, encontramos dinámicas cooperativas entre ellos. Los data scouts son piezas fundamentales en cadenas de extractivismo ampliado con mejores condiciones que otros trabajadores del capitalismo de plataformas.

  • English

    Online sports betting platforms offer an infinite number of live matches, of all kinds of sports, categories, and places in the world, allowing recurring and simultaneous bets on the matches. To supply this market with data, specialized companies produce fast, detailed and reliable live databases. Data scouts are professionals trained to generate data feeds from stadiums with specific mobile applications. We carried out an ethnography with a group of data scouts in Brazil, in dialogue with social studies on online sports betting and digital work in platform capitalism. Compared to other platform workers, data scouts are considered privileged due to their high remuneration (payments in euros) and valued affective space (sports, especially soccer). Without competitive tensions, we find cooperative dynamics between them. Data scouts are fundamental pieces in chains of expanded extractivism with better conditions than other workers in platform capitalism.

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