With the theme ‘Algorithms, work and inequalities’, the fourth edition of the seminar series will begin, organised and supported by the University of Minho’s CECS and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS) – UMinho Pole. The first session is scheduled for 28 November.
The first session is scheduled for 28 November at 6pm and will be moderated by Fernando Bessa Ribeiro (CICS.NOVA UMinho) and will feature speakers Elísio Estanque (CES, visiting professor at UFBA) with the paper ‘Work and digitalisation in the acceleration society’ and André Carmo (CICS.NOVA.UÉvora, SPGL-FENPROF) with the paper ‘A trade unionist in the making: some lessons from experience’.
During the cycle of four sessions in online and hybrid formats, hosted by international and national speakers, the aim is to revisit teaching and research centred on reflecting on the unavoidability of algorithms that colonise important areas of private and social life, transforming production (infra)structures and contemporary working relationships. The platformisation of work disrupts organisational models, contributes to labour deregulation and gives rise to new inequalities through the spread of indirect and algorithmic forms of control that help to manage, instrumentalise and alienate workers. In fact, more than the power to control and predict, algorithms contain social determinisms that reproduce various types of social and cultural discrimination.
Far from being neutral or an inescapable technological imperative, algorithmic ‘culture’ challenges us to reflect on the widening of (new/old) social inequalities associated with the contexts of economic, political, climate and war crises.
The session on 28 November (6pm) will be broadcast on Zoom:
Link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/8213362289
Meeting ID: 821 336 2289
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