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[Commlist] PhD Symposium The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work

Mon Sep 27 21:44:48 GMT 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_10ZCdSfCXNBPchWNkTA

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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)


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