8th Conference of the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-8)

10-12 Sep 2025 Bologna (Italy)

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Programme

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09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00	Welcome address 9:00 - 9:30 (30min) Welcome address Aula Magna S. Cristina Director of Sociology Department Univ. Bologna, INDL-8 organizers (Federico Chicchi, Marco Marrone, Daniele Di Nunzio), previous organizer (Antonio Stecher), DiPLab scholarship representative (Paola Tubaro) The Hydra of Artificial Intelligence: Labor Devaluation and Erosion of Human Agency 9:30 - 10:25 (55min) The Hydra of Artificial Intelligence: Labor Devaluation and Erosion of Human Agency Aula Magna S. Cristina Sarah T. Roberts https://indl-8.sciencesconf.org/data/program/STRoberts.pdf Coffee break 10:25 - 10:55 (30min) Coffee break Cloister Property rights and monetisation of the personal data of platform workers 10:55 - 11:50 (55min) Property rights and monetisation of the personal data of platform workers Aula Magna S. Cristina María Luz Rodríguez Fernández https://indl-8.sciencesconf.org/data/program/MLRF.pdf Legal frameworks, regulatory initiatives, and institutional responses Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Platformisation and precariousness Algorithmic management and labor control 12:00 - 13:00 (1h) Legal frameworks, regulatory initiatives, and institutional responses Room A S. Cristina › Regulate the old and create the new: a study of Brazilian public policies for platform work - Felipe Mano, São Paulo State University (UNESP) - Faculty of Human and Social Sciences 12:00-12:15 (15min) › Regulating AI in the Workplace: A Critique of the EU AI Act and the Platform Work Directive Through a Workerist Lens - Alexandros Minotakis, University College Dublin [Dublin] 12:15-12:30 (15min) › From Workers' Rights to Digital Borders: The Home Office's New Role in Britain's Platform Economy - Stefano Piemontese, University of Birmingham [Birmingham] - Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham [Birmingham] 12:30-12:45 (15min) 12:00 - 13:00 (1h) Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Room B S. Cristina › Not entirely dead labour: worker-led automation in software production - James Steinhoff, University College Dublin [Dublin] 12:00-12:15 (15min) › Content Creators and Collective Representation: Emerging Forms of Resistance in the Creator Economy - Matafu Antonino, Università degli studi di Catania = University of Catania 12:15-12:30 (15min) › Do Women Resist? Hidden Transcript and Alternative Resistance of Women Gig Workers in Indonesia - Nabiyla Risfa Izzati, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Queen Mary University of London 12:30-12:45 (15min) 12:00 - 13:00 (1h) Platformisation and precariousness Room C S. Cristina › (In)visible Labour in Digital Platforms: Airbnb and The Creation of Work Networks - Alan Valenzuela, Universidad Alberto Hurtado 12:00-12:15 (15min) › Algorithmic Exclusion and the Logic of Platformization: The Case of iFood in a Brazilian Metropolitan Area - Fabio Tozi, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais = Federal University of Minas Gerais [Belo Horizonte, Brazil] 12:15-12:30 (15min) › Many registered and few elected : How homecare platforms of intermediation structure inequalities in access to employment - Léa Lima, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique 12:30-12:45 (15min) 12:00 - 13:00 (1h) Algorithmic management and labor control Room Ardigò › Fact-Checking as Digital Labour: Ethics, Politics, and Big Tech's False Framing of Online Fact-Checking - Aishik Saha, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 12:00-12:15 (15min) › From Taylorism to Algorithmic Management: A multi-sector analysis of technology, control and worker experiences - Uma Rani, International Labour Organization - Morgan Williams, International Labour Organization 12:15-12:30 (15min) › Generative Artificial Intelligence in the publishing and information sector in Italy: present and future challenges for trade unions and workers' right - Eliana Como, Fondazione Di Vittorio 12:30-12:45 (15min) Lunch + Poster Session 13:00 - 14:00 (1h) Lunch + Poster Session https://indl-8.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Posters_website2.pdf Gender and digital labor Workers' resistance to algorithms Platformisation and precariousness Clients and employers 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Gender and digital labor Room A S. Cristina › Motherhood at the margins: ASHAs and the digital labour of antenatal care work - Neha Gupta, Tata Institute of Social Sciences 14:00-14:15 (15min) › Click-work as Care Work: Ethico-political Contestations Through Care - Deepshikha Sharma, University of Twente 14:15-14:30 (15min) › “You Got Into This Job Too?”: Gendered Encounters of Women Couriers in Platform-Based Delivery Work in Turkey - Tugce Bidav, King‘s College London - Funda Ustek Spilda, King‘s College London 14:30-14:45 (15min) › Fracturing Solidarities: A Gendered Perspective of the Platformisation of Domestic Work and Trends in Worker Collectivisation - Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur, Institute of Development Studies 14:45-15:00 (15min) › From Exploitation to Resistance: Migrant Women Contesting Digital Labor Through Feminist Strategies - Lara Vieira Silveira, Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg = Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg 15:00-15:15 (15min) › Regulating webcamming as platform work – A focus on algorithms to forget about sex... and work - Salomé Lannier, University of Luxembourg 15:15-15:30 (15min) 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Workers' resistance to algorithms Room B S. Cristina › "Breaking the apps" once again: An analysis of the 2020 and 2025 food delivery workers' strikes in Brazil - Lucas Souza, CREST 14:00-14:15 (15min) › Data, sociality and class struggle - Marianna Haug, Universidade de São Paulo / University of Sao Paulo 14:15-14:30 (15min) › From micro-resistance to movement: How gig workers are fighting back against platform power - Bonini Tiziano, University of Siena - Emiliano Treré, University of Valencia 14:30-14:45 (15min) › From Resistance to Imbrication: Algorithmic Practices and the Reproduction of Inequalities in Food Delivery Work - Francesco Bonifacio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano 14:45-15:00 (15min) › RESISTANCE, ACCOMMODATION, OR ASSIMILATION? THE CONTESTED ROLE OF WORKER SOLIDARITY IN DIGITAL DELIVERY PLATFORMS. - Francisca Gutiérrez-Crocco, Associate Professor, Universidad Austral de Chile, Principal Investigator, Núcleo Milenio Evolución del Trabajo (MNEW) 15:15-15:30 (15min) 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Platformisation and precariousness Room C S. Cristina › Complex Work and Platformization - Henrique Amorim, Universidade Federal de São Paulo 14:15-14:30 (15min) › Platform Last-Mile Logistics in the Favela of Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro - Federico De Stavola, YIRG Project (University of Bergamo) - Gianmarco Peterlongo, Università statale di Milano 14:30-14:45 (15min) › Platform Labour and the Indian State: A New Interface? - Debopriya Shome, University of Bristol [Bristol] 14:45-15:00 (15min) › Behind the screens, beyond the shelves: a comparative assessment of digital labor in content creation and Amazon warehouses - Arianna Petrosino, Università di Napoli Federico II - Camilla Volpe, Università degli Studi di Milano 15:00-15:15 (15min) › From Relational Contracts to Market Mechanisms: Entropy Hedging and the Limits of Platform Substitution in High-Risk Migration Systems - Tutan Ahmed, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 15:15-15:30 (15min) 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Clients and employers Room di Virgilio › The human cogs in the AI machine: Experiences of data annotation and content moderation workers in the BPO sector in India and Kenya - Uma Rani, International Labour Organization - Morgan Williams, International Labour Organization 14:00-14:15 (15min) › Digital colonialism and labor inequality: a discourse analysis of outsourcing practices in AI data processing - Salguero Pedro, University of Valladolid 14:15-14:30 (15min) › Looking into ML Professional Work: A Comparative Case Study in AI Development in Ireland - Jason Kalathas, University College Dublin 14:30-14:45 (15min) › Riding with the Enemy: Client Identities and the Legal Making of Counter-Alliances - Maria Giulia Arciero, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome] 14:45-15:00 (15min) › The Delivery Worker in Platform Companies' Discourse: Representation Strategies on Digital Platforms - Romina López Concha, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso - Guillermo Rivera Aguilera, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 15:00-15:15 (15min) › How do platforms pay data workers? Insights from Remotasks Plus Venezuela - Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Économie et STatistique (CREST), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 15:15-15:30 (15min) Coffee break 16:00 - 16:30 (30min) Coffee break Cloister The Platform Work Grey Zone - Special Panel Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Platform cooperativism and alternative business models Psycho-social and health-related risks 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) The Platform Work Grey Zone - Special Panel Room A S. Cristina Donna Kesselman › Informalized politics? Uberization, modes of subjectivation and resistance - Ludmila Abilio, Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas 16:30-16:45 (15min) › Food delivery platforms in Belgium: a contested grey zone of employment - Brugière Fabien, Sociétés, acteurs, gouvernement en Europe 16:45-17:00 (15min) › “The Platform Work Grey Zone: Epistemology and Workers' Resistance North and South” - Donna Kesselman, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 17:00-17:15 (15min) › Grey zones and resistance: the “weapons of the weak” of bikeboys against algorithmic despotism - João Pedro Perin, Federal University of São Carlos 17:15-17:30 (15min) 16:30 - 18:30 (2h) Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Room B S. Cristina › Going through the motion: control, cost and opportunities in Brazilian workers' experiences with five care work platforms - Maria Júlia Pereira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas - Fabiana Benedito, Universidade Federal da Bahia = Federal University of Bahia - Douglas Silva, Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo 16:30-16:45 (15min) › 'AI Workers of the World, Respite!' - Will Berrington, University of Warwick [Coventry] 16:45-17:00 (15min) › Alternative Platforms in the Cloud Computing Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities - Filippo Greggi, Unité de recherche ACT (Analyse des Crises et Transitions) 17:00-17:15 (15min) › A new form of 'racing to the bottom'? - Data Work, globally conditioned competition and challenges for international organization - Laurenz Sachenbacher, Weizenbaum Institut, Technische Universität Berlin - Camilla Salim Wagner, Weizenbaum Institut, Technische Universität Berlin 17:15-17:30 (15min) › From Hustle to Resistance: Youth Agency and Digital Labour Struggles in Nigeria's Gig Economy - Babatunde Omotosho, Federal University Oye-Ekiti 17:30-17:45 (15min) › Crafting Visibility and Solidarity: Professional and Collective Digital Identity as Everyday Resistance on Micro-tasking Platforms - Myriam RAYMOND, GRANEM, Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Angers, Digital Platform Labor Research Group 17:45-18:00 (15min) 16:30 - 18:30 (2h) Platform cooperativism and alternative business models Room C S. Cristina › De-commodifying labour in tourism through the platform cooperative model - Francesca Martinelli, Fondazione Centro Studi Doc - Sonja Novkovic, ICCM, Saint Mary's University 16:30-16:45 (15min) › From Commodification to Cooperation: Platform Cooperatives as a Challenge to Platform Capitalism - Helena Verhuyck, University of Antwerp 16:45-17:00 (15min) › Health through the Collective: An Analysis of Cooperative Initiatives by Delivery Workers in Times of Work Platformization - Carolina Ferrari Capistrano de Mesquita, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica Sergio Arouca / Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health [Rio de Janeiro] 17:00-17:15 (15min) › The Scissor Effect: Diverging Stakeholder Fractures in the Development of a Platform Cooperative — The Case of The Drivers Cooperative - Stefano Tortorici, Scuola Normale Superiore 17:15-17:30 (15min) › Women, Platforms, and State Power: The Lunch Bell Project and Digital Solidarity Economies in Kerala - Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, Faculty of Infromation, University of Toronto - Priyank Chandra, Faculty of Infromation, University of Toronto 17:30-17:45 (15min) › Screen Time: The digitalization of the world of work in Latin America, the Case "She Taxi", Rosario, Argentina. - Meritxell Calbet Montcusí, Universidad Viña del mar - Víctor Fabián Climent Peredo, Universidad de Alicante 17:45-18:00 (15min) 16:30 - 18:30 (2h) Psycho-social and health-related risks Room di Virgilio › Precarity Through Affective Labour in Content Production: Brazilian Live Streamers in the Global South - Amanda Biazzi, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil] = State University of Maringá [Brazil] = Université d'État de Maringá [Brésil] 16:30-16:45 (15min) › Day by Day – A Daily Diary Exploration of Microworkers' Working Conditions and Well-Being - Sofie Schuller, Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht] 16:45-17:00 (15min) › Digital chains, mental strains: A case study of content moderators and data labellers in Nairobi. - Angela Chukunzira, Siasa Place, Project ETHER 17:00-17:15 (15min) › Digitalization and occupational health prevention in the network economy: old and new challenges - Daniele Di Nunzio, Fondazione Di Vittorio - Elisa Errico, Fondazione Di Vittorio 17:15-17:30 (15min) › Promoting Wellbeing with Top- and Bottom-up Strategies: Microwork Conditions and Playful Work Design - Yuri Scharp, Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht] 17:30-17:45 (15min) › The Humans Behind the Filter: Uncovering the Costs and Consequences of Content Moderators in Kenya - Søren Bøgh Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen] 17:45-18:00 (15min) City Tour - Bologna and the social movements 19:00 - 20:00 (1h) City Tour - Bologna and the social movements Archivio storico dei movimenti, via Avesella 5a, Bologna	Welcome address 9:00 - 9:30 (30min) Welcome address Sala Conferenze Vincenzo Colla (regione Emilia-Romagna), Mauro Penza (Tecnopolo DAMA) Documentary: In the Belly of AI (2025) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Documentary: In the Belly of AI (2025) Sala Conferenze A. Casilli (intro) https://indl-8.sciencesconf.org/data/program/In_The_Belly_of_AI_INDL_8.pdf Plenary panel: New Unionism, towards global alliances 11:00 - 13:00 (2h) Plenary panel: New Unionism, towards global alliances Sala Conferenze Francesco Sinopoli (moderator), Michele Bulgarelli (CGIL Bologna), Joan Kinyua (Data Labelers Association, Kenya), Felipe Corredor Álvarez (Riders x Derechos, Spain), Kauna Ibrahim Malgwi (Uniglobal, Nigeria) https://indl-8.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Plenary_panel.pdf Lunch 13:00 - 14:00 (1h) Lunch Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Platformisation and precariousness 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Sala Conferenze › Platforms and the individualisation of work experience: a study of data work - Mariana Fernandez Massi, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] - Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Économie et STatistique (CREST) 14:00-14:15 (15min) › Whistleblowing on AI: translators sharing experience and thoughts - Générale IA-lerte, IA-lerte générale 14:15-14:30 (15min) › Notes Toward a Digital Worker Inquiry - Brophy Enda, Simon Fraser University 14:30-14:45 (15min) › Reshaping platform governmentality: The curious case of moderators' strike on Stack Exchange - Damien RENARD, Université de Louvain 14:45-15:00 (15min) › Labour Regimes and the Algorithmic Logic of Digital Capital: Data Work for Machine Learning Systems in Nairobi's “Silicon Savannah” - Søren Bøgh Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen] 15:00-15:15 (15min) › Within and Against: Class-Making of Tech Workers in Berlin - Valentin Niebler, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin = Humboldt University of Berlin = Université Humboldt de Berlin 15:15-15:30 (15min) 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Platformisation and precariousness Sala dei Trenta › "Self-entrepreneurship" among motorcycle couriers in Brazil and its consequences for labor mobilizations - Pedro Neiva, Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília], Universidade de Brasilia = University of Brasilia [Brasília] 14:00-14:15 (15min) › How fair is work for bike delivery riders when employment policies embrace platform labour? The case of the “Renda por App” programme in the Brazilian city of Recife - Érika Sabrina Felix Azevedo, Instituto Federal de Alagoas - Sébastien Antoine, National University of Ireland Maynooth 14:15-14:30 (15min) › Migrant Labour in the Food Delivery Sector: Challenges to Organising in the Context of Mestre and Marghera's Labour Market - Francesco Pontarelli, Université de Venise Ca' Foscari \| Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia 14:30-14:45 (15min) › Migrant Workers in the Digital Labour Platform: Examining and Analysisng Precarity in Indian Labour Market - Chakma Kinchan, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India - Rahul Sapkal, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India 14:45-15:00 (15min) › Orchestrating Mobility - How Immigration Agencies, Universities, and Platform Companies Construct the Migration and Labor Pathways of Indian Food Delivery Workers in Berlin - Debarun Narayan Dutta, Hertie School of Governance [Berlin], Fairwork 15:00-15:15 (15min) › Platformization of Economic Coordination and Precarization of Labor - Kianoosh Yasaei, Centre d'études sur les médias, les technologies et l'internationalisation 15:15-15:30 (15min) Legal frameworks, regulatory initiatives, and institutional responses Workers' resistance to algorithms 16:30 - 18:30 (2h) Legal frameworks, regulatory initiatives, and institutional responses Sala Conferenze › Power Struggles Surrounding AI-Powered Digital Technologies in the EU Manufacturing Landscape: The Present and Future of Labour Rights, Governance and Social Dialogue - López Cañellas Naira, Technological University of Dublin 16:30-16:45 (15min) › Social Dialogue and the State's Role in Regulating Digital Labor in Chile: Between Institutional Constraints and Emerging Strategies - Daina Bellido de Luna, Daina Bellido de Luna Mayea 16:45-17:00 (15min) › AI, Latinidad, and the Union: Who is shaping Hollywood's audiobook labor future? - Ruth Nuñez Villanueva, University of California Los Angeles 17:00-17:15 (15min) › Making Data Move: Action Research on Data Portability in the Gig Economy - Martijn Arets, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences 17:15-17:30 (15min) › Platform work international governance from the bottom-up: assessing cloudworkers' challenges and demands in the context of the ILO international convention - Jonas Valente, University of Oxford 17:30-17:45 (15min) › Creative Resistance: Algorithmic Governance, Cultural Policy, and the Precarity of Digital Art Labor on Global Platforms - Mika (Jaeyun) Noh, Ai Art Forum 17:45-18:00 (15min) 16:30 - 18:30 (2h) Workers' resistance to algorithms Sala dei Trenta › Negotiating Autonomy in a Dual Space: How Ride-Hailing Drivers' Agency is formatted by Digital Intermediation - Mathilde Abel, Centre de recherche en économie et statistique (CREST) - Patrick Dieuaide, ICEE - Intégration et Coopération dans l'Espace Européen - Etudes Européennes - EA 2291 16:30-16:45 (15min) › Fighting algorithms: can delivery riders' movements in Brazil lead a way to contest digital platforms and their affordances? - Paula Menezes, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da UNICAMP 17:00-17:15 (15min) › The Role of Digital Platforms in Entrepreneurship and Economic Resilience: A Case Study of In-Drive Workers - Saadeddine Igamane, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University 17:15-17:30 (15min) › General Purpose, Specific Consequences: AI and the Recomposition of Class Power - Juan Grigera, Department of International Development, King's College London 17:30-17:45 (15min) › Labor Activism of Chinese Taxi Drivers on Online Platform - Simon Yin, Hefei University of Technology 17:45-18:00 (15min)	Algorithmic management and labor control Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work INCA Special Panel: BIG TECH POWER: NARRATIVES, LABOUR, INFRASTRUCTURES Environmental challenges 9:00 - 10:45 (1h45) Algorithmic management and labor control Room A S. Cristina › Whose time counts? Algorithmic management, unpaid waiting time and data extraction in food delivery platforms - Edoardo Biscossi, Goldsmiths, University of London 09:00-09:15 (15min) › The tensions of a contradictory labor relationship. Corporate culture, privileges and resistance in managerial work in technology-based firms in Argentina. - Diego Szlechter, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento - Conicet 09:15-09:30 (15min) › The Human Circuit: A Comparative Study of the Semiconductor Industry's Labor Conditions in the US and Taiwan - Ethan Chiu, Yale University 09:30-09:45 (15min) › Managing sellers, shaping markets: How MercadoLibre controls and is contested - Sonia Marina Filipetto, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento 09:45-10:00 (15min) › The Human Cost of AI – A Case Study of the African Content Moderators Union and Working Conditions in the AI Supply Chain - Henrique Motta, Hertie School of Governance [Berlin] 10:00-10:15 (15min) 9:00 - 10:45 (1h45) Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Room B S. Cristina › Organising and struggling in a continent: the politics of app-drivers and couriers in Brazil - Caetano Patta Barros, Postdoctoral researcher at Núcleo Direito e Democracia do Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento 09:00-09:15 (15min) › Organising fragmented labour: the case of migrant cleaning workers at Helpling in Berlin - Valentin Niebler, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin = Humboldt University of Berlin = Université Humboldt de Berlin 09:15-09:30 (15min) › Beyond Efficiency: rethinking automation through collective and individual responsibility in the age of A.I. - Ilaria Ingrao, Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin 09:30-09:45 (15min) › Exploring Factors Influencing Entry into the Gig Economy: A Study of Chinese Workers - Mingming Li, Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck, Zhejiang University [Hangzhou, China] 09:45-10:00 (15min) › FIRST RULE: KEEP PEDALLING. CO-THEORISING WITH FOOD-DELIVERY WORKERS HOW TO MAKE DIGITAL PLATFORMS CAPABILITY-ENHANCING. - Pietro Ghirlanda, Università degli Studi di Pavia [Italia] = University of Pavia [Italy] = Université de Pavie [Italie] 10:00-10:15 (15min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) INCA Special Panel: BIG TECH POWER: NARRATIVES, LABOUR, INFRASTRUCTURES Room C S. Cristina › What do European say when they talk about GAFAM? - Edoardo Mollona, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna 09:00-09:15 (15min) › Contested Amazonification: comparing Amazon workers' struggles in Italy and Poland - Mattia Frapporti, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna 09:15-09:30 (15min) › Which alternative to Big Tech business model and corporate governance? - Maurilio Pirone, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna 09:30-09:45 (15min) › Big Tech as Infrastructures - Niccolò Cuppini, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana = University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland [Manno] 09:45-10:00 (15min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Environmental challenges Seminar room SDE › Delivering “Broken Promises” to Save the Planet: Climate Crisis, Breakdowns and Socio-Ecological Infrastructure in Platform Capitalism - Hiu Fung Chung, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto - Kaushar Mahetaji, University of Toronto - Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, Faculty of Infromation, University of Toronto 09:00-09:15 (15min) › Political ecology of digital labor: towards a Just Transition perspective - Emanuele Leonardi, University of Bologna - Maura Benegiamo, University of Pisa 09:15-09:30 (15min) › A Sustainable Digital Growth? Labour, Energy and Environmental Challenges in the Data Center Sector - Giorgio Pirina, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna - Vando Borghi, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna 09:30-09:45 (15min) › The Hands of Digital Work: The Challenges of Climate Change for Logistics Workers - Leonardo Venancio, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo 09:45-10:00 (15min) Algorithmic management and labor control Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Platformisation and precariousness Gender and digital labor 11:00 - 13:00 (2h) Algorithmic management and labor control Room A S. Cristina › The fragmentation of working-time in the gig economy: an analysis of Uber drivers in Geneva using worker's data - Núria Sánchez-Mira, Université de Neuchâtel = University of Neuchatel 11:00-11:15 (15min) › AI Under Capital: Technological Contradictions and Ideological Narratives in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Gabriel Ulbricht, Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas 11:15-11:30 (15min) › Algorithmic management and labour control on freelance platforms - Mariana Fernandez Massi, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] 11:30-11:45 (15min) › Algorithms and the politics of production in the platform economy - Kanikka Sersia, Graduate Institute of International and Development studies 11:45-12:00 (15min) › Data Work Management and the Procedural Rationality of AI - Lorenzo De Lellis, Ca' Foscari University [Venice, Italy] 12:00-12:15 (15min) › From Workers to Oracles: Tracing Human-Machine Assemblages in the Production of AI - Iraklis Vogiatzis, Hellenic Open University [Patras], DiPlab research team 12:15-12:30 (15min) 11:00 - 13:00 (2h) Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Room B S. Cristina › Indifference, Rejection and Fragmentation: Understanding Organizational Attitudes Among Platform Delivery Workers in Mexico's Digital Labor Landscape - Minor Mora-Salas, Minor Mora Salas 11:00-11:15 (15min) › Platformization of Public Healthcare: Union Strategies and the Future of Medical Work in Sweden - Desirée Enlund, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies 11:15-11:30 (15min) › Relocation Without Borders: Migration Patterns and Economic Adaptation in Online Gig Work - Mengxi Wang, University of Passau 11:30-11:45 (15min) › The local station as the contested space: the formation of variegated agency of food delivery platform riders in China - Shenyuan Zhang, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research 11:45-12:00 (15min) › Thriving in the Digital Gig Economy: The Impact of Upskilling and Reskilling on Worker Success - Zixin Pan, Radboud University 12:00-12:15 (15min) › Work mediated by digital platforms: ways and possibilities of resistance - CLARISSA MARANHÃO, Universidade Federal de Alagoas = Federal University of Alagoas 12:15-12:30 (15min) 11:00 - 13:00 (2h) Platformisation and precariousness Room C S. Cristina › Segmented Workers, Unequal Opportunities for Contestation: Characterising Domestic Cleaners Across Digital and Formal Labour Markets in French-speaking Switzerland Using Mixed Methods - Camille Budon, University of Neuchatel - Sofia Kypraiou, University of Neuchatel, PersonalData.io 11:00-11:15 (15min) › Sunset Chasers: Life and Labour of Game Service Workers - Magnus Andersen, Roskilde University 11:15-11:30 (15min) › “To Have Money but Not to Survive”: Reconciliation Narratives Among European Microworkers - Floor Fiers, Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht], University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam 11:30-11:45 (15min) › THE BRAZILIAN JUDICIARY AS AN AGENT OF DEREGULATION AND PRECARIZATION OF LABOR LAW - Eduardo Calixto, Universidade Federal do Parana [Curitiba] - Sidnei MACHADO, Universidade Federal do Parana [Curitiba] 11:45-12:00 (15min) › The Precarious Labor Market of Digital Platforms in Chile: Companies, New Legal Frameworks and Workers. - Antonio Stecher, Universidad Diego Portales [Santiago - Chili] 12:00-12:15 (15min) › Precarity in Motion: Gendered Experiences in India's Ride-Hailing Platform Work - Subhashri Sarkar, Subhashri Sarkar 12:15-12:30 (15min) 11:00 - 13:00 (2h) Gender and digital labor Seminar room SDE › Platformisation of domestic & care work in India - Abhishek Nemuri, Independent researcher 11:00-11:15 (15min) › The Digital Transformation and Continuities of Domestic and Care Work: Social Reproduction and the Role of Digital Labour Platforms (DLPs) in India - Chakma Kinchan, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India - Rahul Sapkal, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India 11:15-11:30 (15min) › Gender and digital labor in agricuture: setting a research agenda - Paola Mascheroni, Departamento de Sociología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República 11:30-11:45 (15min) › From Double to Triple Burden: Gender Stratification in the Latin American Data Annotation Gig Economy - Mushro Lauren, Johns Hopkins University 11:45-12:00 (15min) › Recalculating Route: mapping the experience of women drivers and delivery workers through digital platforms in Brazil. - Gabriela Siqueira Salomão, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Fairwork Brasil 12:00-12:15 (15min) › “GENDERING” NEO-CRAFT WORK: FROM MASCULINISED DOMAIN TO FEMINISED PLATFORM LABOR - Gaia Casagrande, University of Milan 12:15-12:30 (15min) Lunch 13:00 - 14:00 (1h) Lunch Algorithmic management and labor control Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Technology as a tool for worker organization and collective action Psycho-social and health-related risks Platformisation and precariousness Gender and digital labor 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Algorithmic management and labor control Room A S. Cristina › From fragmentation to collectivity: resistance and reconstruction of union organisation among app delivery workers in Brazil - Marina Rosado Dias, Berlin School of Economics and Law 14:00-14:15 (15min) › HETEROMATING MACHINES, ISOLATION AND INVISIBILITY: PREELIMINARY RESULTS ABOUT CHILEAN MICROWORKERS SUBJECTIVITY. - Diego Rivera, Universidad de Chile, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, FAIR 14:15-14:30 (15min) › Hidden Underbelly of the Silicon Valley: Data Work for Artificial Intelligence, Value Chains and Labour Markets Transformation. - Mophat Okinyi, Techworker Community Africa - Richard Mathenge, Techworker Community Africa - Mohammad Amir Anwar, The University of Edinburgh, University of Johannesburg [South Africa] 14:30-14:45 (15min) › The protection of personal data in the context of AI systems used for professional purposes: a neglected issue - Ludovica Robustelli, Nantes Université 14:45-15:00 (15min) › Reconsidering the implementation of Artificial intelligence in call centre jobs: Ethnographic study - ISIRABAHENDA Gonzague, Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai [Cluj-Napoca] 15:00-15:15 (15min) › Migration, algorithmic governance, solidarity and resistance in the gig economy - Lutfun Nahar Lata, University of Melbourne 15:15-15:30 (15min) 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work Room B S. Cristina › AI Workers' rights litigation : AI - WORLd - Thomas LE BONNIEC, Télécom Paris 14:00-14:15 (15min) › Empowering AI's Invisible Workforce: Advancing Transparency and Data Protection for Data Workers. - James Oyange, African Content Moderators Union 14:15-14:30 (15min) › “I Prefer the Mall to My Home”: Collective Resistance Through the Material and Affective Appropriation of Space - Costanza Ragazzi, Graduate Institute Geneva 14:45-15:00 (15min) › Dari Bayangan, Kami Bertarung “From the shadow we fight”. The ‘silent warriors' of Indonesia's electronic supply chain. - Davide Blotta, University of Urbino 15:00-15:15 (15min) › From the certainty of injustice to the ambiguity of the fight: Exploring the app drivers protests in Brazil (March - April 2024) - Antônio Olegário Ferreira Neto, Universidade de São Paulo, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (Cebrap) - Alvaro Comin, Universidade de São Paulo, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (Cebrap) - Andre Scerb, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (Cebrap) 15:15-15:30 (15min) 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Technology as a tool for worker organization and collective action Room C S. Cristina › Algorithmic Tactics: Empowering Platform Workers through Collaborative Data Visualizations - Derly Sánchez Vargas, Universidad del Rosario [Bogota] 14:00-14:15 (15min) › Digital labour & challenges to collectizing in India's Online Food Delivery sector - Neha Arya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 14:15-14:30 (15min) › From Facebook Group to Policy Tables: The Digital Pathway to Organizing Gig Workers in Kenya - Frida Mwangi, Kenya Union of Gig workers (KUGWO), iWorkers Kenya, KaziRemote Limited 14:30-14:45 (15min) › Labouring on Digital Sexual Spaces: Experiences of South African OnlyFans Creators - Phiwokazi Qoza, University of Cape Town 14:45-15:00 (15min) › Meu Corre App: a tool co-created with Brazilian workers to understand the Gig Economy - IGOR DALLA VECCHIA, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg - Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg 15:00-15:15 (15min) › From Riders to Influencers: The "Gigfluencer" Phenomenon in Ridesourcing DLPs - Dhar Dipsita, Centre for Studies of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University - Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, Faculty of Infromation, University of Toronto 15:15-15:30 (15min) 14:00 - 16:00 (2h) Psycho-social and health-related risks Aula Magna S. Cristina › Working in the Shadows of the Gig Economy: Development and Validation of the Microworking Conditions Scale - Sofie Schuller, Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht] 14:00-14:15 (15min) › Health status and occupational risks in platform-based food delivery workers in France: a participatory study - Marwân-Al-Qays Bousmah, Institut Convergences Migrations [Aubervilliers], Centre Population et Développement, Institut national d'études démographiques 14:15-14:30 (15min) › AI and digital technologies as psycho-social infrastructures of death anxiety and algorithmic hacking - Federico Giovannini, Independent researcher 14:30-14:45 (15min) › Title: From Silicon Scars to Solidarity: African Tech workers/Content Moderators' mental health and Collective Resistance to Algorithmic Trauma in the Global South - KAUNA IBRAHIM MALGWI, Digital rights and mental health initiative, Gamayyar African tech workers cooperative society, Uniglobal union, Communications workers union 14:45-15:00 (15min) › Technostress and the Health Related Risks on Content Production of Self-Employed Professionals: A Study with Brazilian Psychologists - Amanda Biazzi, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil] = State University of Maringá [Brazil] = Université d'État de Maringá [Brésil] 15:00-15:15 (15min) › Content Moderation and Mental Well-Being in India and Kenya – A Legal Framework - Neha Vyas, Newcastle University, Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work - Abigail Osiki, University of Canterbury, Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work 15:15-15:30 (15min) 14:00 - 15:00 (1h) Platformisation and precariousness Room Ardigò › Leveraging Workforce Flexibility to Navigate Platform-Induced Uncertainty: A study of the Italian Restaurant and Hospitality Sectors - Jacopo Tramontano, Sapienza - University of Rome 14:00-14:15 (15min) › Navigating Changes: Technology, Migration, and the Future of Taxi Drivers in the Digital Age - SHAHANA PURVEEN, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) 14:15-14:30 (15min) 15:00 - 16:00 (1h) Gender and digital labor Room Ardigò › Invisible Barriers: Gender and Algorithmic Discrimination in Food Delivery Platforms - Giulia Druetta, Lawyer at La comune Lawfirm 15:00-15:15 (15min) › Remote Carework and the International Division of Reproductive Labor - Stephanie Santos, Cambridge Digital Humanities 15:15-15:30 (15min) › AI Governance and Women's Labour: Decolonial and Gendered views on Chile's AI Policy - Daniela Horta, King's College London 15:30-15:45 (15min) Coffee break 16:00 - 16:30 (30min) Coffee break Cloister Beyond Resistance. Digital Labor, Social Cooperation, and Infrastructural Struggles 16:30 - 17:30 (1h) Beyond Resistance. Digital Labor, Social Cooperation, and Infrastructural Struggles Aula Magna S. Cristina Sandro Mezzadra https://indl-8.sciencesconf.org/data/program/SMezzadra_talk.pdf Closing remarks and INDL-9 reveal 17:30 - 18:00 (30min) Closing remarks and INDL-9 reveal Aula Magna S. Cristina Uma Rani, Myriam Raymond, Mariana Fernández Massi, Julian Posada

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