This article explores the writing and reading requirements of the literacy practices, events, and texts characteristic of work mediated by the online labor platforms of the gig economy, such as Airtasker and Freelancer, which bring together people needing a job done with those willing to do it. These emerging platform-based discourse communities and their associated literacies are a new domain of social activity. Based on an examination of seven gig economy platforms, the present article examines the core literacy event in the gig economy, the posting and bidding for tasks, together with the texts that enhance and support this process. While some tasks require written texts as the outcome or product, all tasks involve the creation of some form of written text as part of doing the work. These texts are both interactional and interpersonal. As well as being a part of negotiating and then getting a task done, they relate to the complexities of building the identities, knowledge, and relationships required of those working in a virtual workspace rather than a traditional workplace. While most of these texts reflect familiar text types, the core text cycle is argued to be an “emergent” genre. Implications for education are presented.

本文探讨了由零工经济的在线劳动力平台（例如Airtasker和Freelancer）所中介的工作的读写实践、事件和文本的写作和阅读要求，这些平台将需要完成工作的人和愿意做的人聚集在一起。它。这些新兴的基于平台的话语社区及其相关的文学是一个新的社会活动领域。本文基于对七个零工经济平台的考察，考察了零工经济中的核心素养事件、任务的发布和竞标，以及加强和支持这一过程的文本。虽然有些任务需要书面文本作为结果或产品，但所有任务涉及创建某种形式的书面文本，作为工作的一部分。这些文本既是互动的，也是人际的。除了作为谈判和完成任务的一部分之外，它们还涉及建立在虚拟工作空间而不是传统工作场所工作的人员所需的身份、知识和关系的复杂性。虽然这些文本中的大多数都反映了熟悉的文本类型，但核心文本循环被认为是一种“新兴”类型。介绍了对教育的影响。