[Air-L] Registration Open - PhD Symposium The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work

Rafael Grohmann rafael-ng at uol.com.br
Mon Sep 27 12:07:37 PDT 2021


   PhD Symposium, The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work

   October 27-28, 2021

   Free and open event


   Hosts: DigiLabour Research Lab, Unisinos University, and Dimmons,IN3,
   Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

   REGISTRATION
   LINK: https://digilabour-br.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MX_10ZCdSfCXNBP
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   October 27

   08AM BRT/GMT-3 – 1 PM GMT+2 – Opening Session

   Rafael Grohmann, Unisinos University

   Melissa Renau Cano, Open University of Catalonia


   08:15AM BRT/GMT-3 – 1:15 PM GMT+2:  Content Creation: Evidence From
   China, Europe, the US and West Africa

   Yin Liang (Durham University) – A typology of content creative
   platforms: evidence from the UK, the US and China

   Jordan Duran (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) – Centering
   the platform in content creation: the role of monetization in creators’
   relational work and identity

   Tugce Bidav (Maynooth University) – Global platform, local labour:
   YouTube Creators in Ireland and Turkey

   Godwin Simon (Queensland University of Technology) – Adapting to
   platform logics: platform practices among YouTube-centric Nollywood
   filmmakers


   Discussants

   Taina Bucher (University of Oslo)

   Arturo Arriagada (Adolfo Ibáñez University)



   10:30AM BRT/GMT-3 – 3:30 PM GMT+2- Platform Work Across Different
   Sectors

   Konstantinos Floros (IT University of Copenhagen) – Danish
   housecleaning platforms: producing, governing and resisting flexibility
   in the platform economy

   Lan Li (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) – Online
   Freelancing for Data Scientists

   Julian Posada (University of Toronto) – Support Networks in Platform
   Work

   Pedro Veiga de Almeida (University of Massachusetts – Amherst) –
   Rethinking Digital Consumption

   Ruth Livier Nuñez (University of California, Los Angeles – UCLA) –
   Injustice by Design: A Chicana/Latina feminist analysis of Amazon’s ACX
   labor platform


   Discussants

   Julie Chen (University of Toronto)

   Julia Ticona (University of Pennsylvania)

   Maria Clara Aquino (Unisinos University)


   12:30PM BRT/GMT-3 –  5:30 PM GMT+2  Gamers, Streamers, Subtitlers, and
   Cosplayers: Work Conditions and Platform Practices

   Christine Tran (University of Toronto) – Pink-Collar playbour: the
   digital housework of video game livestreaming

   Beatriz Blanco (Unisinos University) – Visibility labor and feminist
   activism among gaming streamers in Brazil

   Suryansu Guha (University of California, Los Angeles – UCLA) – Scribes
   for hire: the work of subtitling and the changing contours of precarity
   in the Indian creative industries

   Beatrys Rodrigues (Cornell University) – “Becoming Waifu” – Cosplayers’
   commodification of digitally mediated intimacy


   Discussants

   Michael Siciliano (Queen’s University)

   Angèle Christin (Stanford University)

   Adriana Amaral (Unisinos University)


   3PM BRT/GMT-3– 8 PM GMT+2 – Workshop 1: Co-designed strategic planning
   and agile project management for PhD candidates

   Enric Senabre Hidalgo (Dimmons Research Group, Universitat Oberta de
   Catalunya/ Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université de Paris)



   October 28

   08AM BRT/GMT-3  – 1 PM GMT+2 – Platform Cooperativism: current
   challenges in the platform economy and platform work

   Chenai Chair (Mozilla Foundation), Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur (SEWA
   Cooperative Federation), Denise Kasparian (University of Buenos Aires),
   and Vera Vidal (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) – Building feminist
   platform cooperatives: initial reflections from the fields

   Damion Bunders (Rotterdam School of Management) – Member participation
   in digital cooperatives: Silicon law of oligarchy or democratic
   disruptor?

   Lorena Vilarins (University of Brasília) – Platform cooperativism and
   the challenge of confronting the hegemonic political economy

   Rashid Owoyele (The Weizenbaum Institute) – Design for Economic
   Transformation — cooperativist futures

   Discussants

   Francesca Martinelli (Fondazione Centro Studi Doc)

   Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos University)


   10:30AM BRT/GMT-3 – 3:30 PM GMT+2: Algorithmic Management and Feminist
   Approaches in Last-Mile Delivery and Ride-Hailing Platforms

   Kalle Kusk Gjetting (Aarhus University) – Lenient algorithmic
   management: Ethnographic research on a food delivery platform in
   Scandinavia

   Onat Kibaroglu (National University of Singapore) – Gojek as City

   Pallavi Bansal (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – Feminist approaches to
   ride-hailing sector in India

   Francesco Bonifacio (Catholic University, Milan) – Resistance or
   expertise? Reframing riders’ interaction with algorithms, exploring
   workers’ distinctions.

   Discussants:

   Noopur Raval (AI Now Institute, New York University)

   Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)


   1PM BRT/GMT-3  / 6 PM GMT+2  – Workshop 2: Dissemination of Research
   Beyond Journals

   Rafael Grohmann (DigiLabour Research Lab, Unisinos University) and
   Adriana Amaral (CultPop Lab, Unisinos University)


   3PM BRT/GMT-3 – 8 PM GMT+2 – Closing Keynote: Lilly Irani (University
   of California, San Diego)

   “Turkopticon: From Software to Worker Organization”


   If you have any queries or doubts, send an email to
   hello at digilabour.com.br
   Best,
   Rafael Grohmann



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