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

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)

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

10:25 - 10:55 (30min)

Coffee break

Cloister

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

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)

13:00 - 14:00 (1h)

Lunch + Poster Session

https://indl-8.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Posters_website2.pdf

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)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Cloister

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)

19:00 - 20:00 (1h)

City Tour - Bologna and the social movements

Archivio storico dei movimenti, via Avesella 5a, Bologna

Programme