The second edition of the ‘Algorithms, work and inequalities’ seminar series will be held on 27 February. The session will take place in the B-Lounge (Gualtar campus library) and will feature presentations by Ana Paula Marques (CECS/University of Minho), with the presentation Platformised careers and (intra/inter)generational challenges: a sociological look, and Iolanda Fontaínhas (CICS.NOVA UMinho / University of Minho), with Digital intimacies: reconfigurations of privacy between work and home.
Ana Paula Marques has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minho, is a full professor in Sociology, a permanent researcher at the Centre for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) and a collaborator at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences / CICS.NOVA.UMinho Pole. She is the director of the Master’s programme in Sociology and was a member of the General Council of the University of Minho for two consecutive terms (2009-2017). She is secretary-general of the Centre for Euro-Regional Studies Galicia and Northern Portugal (FCEER). Her research and publications have focused on: i) work, employment, higher education and entrepreneurship; ii) inequalities and reconfigurations of labour markets; iii) gender relations and professional identities.
About her talk: ‘Recent studies point to the centrality of experimenting with “competences”, discovering “vocations” and the purposes of (self) fulfilment and subjective well-being on the part of current generations. Based on a critical dialogue centred on the various generations in the workplace, the challenges arising from the anticipation of work futures in the context of ‘platform capitalism’ and the hegemony of algorithmic rationality are analysed, as well as their implications for the emergence of graduate profiles close to ‘nomadic entrepreneurs’. To this end, we are using systematised and published information from the project ‘Return to Work after Covid-19: (Re)centring work’ (2020-22), which explores the perceptions of those who are in hybrid working arrangements (teleworking exclusively and/or alternating with face-to-face work) about refocusing work.’
Iolanda Fontaínhas has a PhD in Sociology, is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo. She is a collaborating researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences at the University of Minho (CICS.NOVA.UMinho). Her research interests have centred on: i) analysing heterosexual practices, desires and relationships; ii) intra-family and gender relations; iii) adult education and training and work. She is currently carrying out research into work-family reconciliation, exploring the challenges that can both enhance, circumscribe and/or limit the exercise of intimate citizenship.
About her intervention:
‘Digital societies are witnessing an intensification of hybrid labour regimes, blending domains of life that are usually separated. The fusion between private and professional spaces, mediated by technology, has contributed to a reconfiguration of work-home-family patterns, with implications for gender roles and power relations. Based on these transformations, interweaving past, present and anticipation of the future, we reflect on the challenges facing privacy in a context of digital acceleration, considering the impact of technologies on intra-family and work relationships.’
The session on 27 February (14:00) will also be broadcast on Zoom (meeting ID: 950 6894 7075), and participation – online and in person – is free of charge.
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