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Labor and Technology: Platforms, AI, and Inequalities

Sat, August 8, 10:00 to 11:30am, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

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In the summer of 2023, Hollywood writers and actors went on the longest joint strike since the 1960s, joined not long after by similar actions from voice and video game actors. From longshoreman to teachers and nurses, many different types of workers have been taking action surrounding A.I. These organized labor actions have put a spotlight on the role of artificial intelligence technologies in disruptions, both actual and future, to work across many different sectors. However, these transformations extend far beyond A.I. to encompass technologies of algorithmic management, surveillance, and platforms that shape the creation and distribution of culture. These widespread technological and social developments have underscored that labor relations remain central to any critical analysis of technology-mediated society.

This session invites papers about the relations between labor and technologies that may include AI but also span beyond it to other digital communications and information technologies that shape work today. Areas of focus may include shifting cultures and practices of work, resistance (both collective and individual), issues related to collective labor organizations in their efforts to meet and shape technology-related work practices, and the ways that long-standing social inequalities interact with any of these topics, or related issues.

We especially encourage papers that examine solutions, or efforts to meet these transformative forces by the people facing them, comparative or global studies that look beyond the U.S., and empirical papers that focus on technologies-in-use.

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