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Welcome address
![]() 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)
9:30 - 10:25 (55min)
The Hydra of Artificial Intelligence: Labor Devaluation and Erosion of Human Agency
![]() Sarah T. Roberts
10:25 - 10:55 (30min)
Coffee break
![]() 10:55 - 11:50 (55min)
Property rights and monetisation of the personal data of platform workers
![]() María Luz Rodríguez Fernández
12:00 - 13:00 (1h)
Legal frameworks, regulatory initiatives, and institutional responses
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› 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
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
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› 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
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› (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
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› 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)
13:00 - 14:00 (1h)
Lunch + Poster Session
14:00 - 16:00 (2h)
Gender and digital labor
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› 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
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› "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)
› Negotiating Control: Algorithmic Management and Labour Agency in China
- Yiran Yue, University College Dublin [Dublin]
15:00-15:15 (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
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› 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
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› 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)
16:00 - 16:30 (30min)
Coffee break
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The Platform Work Grey Zone - Special Panel
![]() 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
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› 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
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› 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
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› 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)
19:00 - 20:00 (1h)
City Tour - Bologna and the social movements
Archivio storico dei movimenti, via Avesella 5a, Bologna
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9:00 - 9:30 (30min)
Welcome address
![]() Vincenzo Colla (regione Emilia-Romagna), Mauro Penza (Tecnopolo DAMA)
9:30 - 11:00 (1h30)
Documentary: In the Belly of AI (2025)
![]() A. Casilli (intro)
11:00 - 13:00 (2h)
Plenary panel: New Unionism, towards global alliances
![]() 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)
13:00 - 14:00 (1h)
Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 (2h)
Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work
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› 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)
› 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
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› "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)
16:30 - 18:30 (2h)
Legal frameworks, regulatory initiatives, and institutional responses
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› 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)
› 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
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› 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)
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9:00 - 10:45 (1h45)
Algorithmic management and labor control
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› 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
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› 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
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› 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
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› 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)
11:00 - 13:00 (2h)
Algorithmic management and labor control
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› 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
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› 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
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› 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
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› 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)
13:00 - 14:00 (1h)
Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 (2h)
Algorithmic management and labor control
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› 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)
14:00 - 16:00 (2h)
Emerging forms of individual and collective action in digitally mediated work
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› 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
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› 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
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› 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
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› 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
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› 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)
16:00 - 16:30 (30min)
Coffee break
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Beyond Resistance. Digital Labor, Social Cooperation, and Infrastructural Struggles
![]() Sandro Mezzadra
17:30 - 18:00 (30min)
Closing remarks and INDL-9 reveal
![]() Uma Rani, Myriam Raymond, Mariana Fernández Massi, Julian Posada
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