Dearest AoIR colleagues: Here's an amazing lineup that includes some names you might now. They'll be live streaming this Saturday morning (ET). Where else would you rather be than on this stream? Feel free to forward as appropriate, Christian -- TITLE Labor in the Global Platform Economy (a discussion panel) PRESENTERS Nathan Ensmenger (http://homes.sice.indiana.edu/nensmeng/) Mary Gray (http://www.ghostwork.info/) Lilly Irani (https://quote.ucsd.edu/lirani/) Cara Wallis (https://comm.tamu.edu/cara-wallis/) DISCUSSANTS Sarah Murray (https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/sarah-murray.html) Lisa Nakamura (https://lisanakamura.net/) DATE AND TIME Saturday, June 1, 2019; 9:30am to 11:00am Eastern Daylight Time (UTC/GMT-4) REMOTE PARTICIPANTS During the day and time of the event, live streaming will be available here: https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/hk5cjpf7/player.html LOCATION Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Directions to this room: http://bit.ly/Ehrlicher (follow path #2) Free and open to the public, no RSVP is required. PANEL DESCRIPTION

From voice assistance that replicates how care and service professions manage their own emotions to surveillance technologies powered by outsourced, contracted coding work, emotional, gendered, and racialized labor are the sources of “smart” technologies writ large. How does the promise of a better, hopeful “future of work” reproduce or contest exploitative regimes of labor? How does the promise of living the “good life,” of becoming the “smart” self, and individual empowerment prohibit other forms of solidarity?

This live stream is part of the "soft opening" of ESC: The Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing at the University of Michigan. http://esc.umich.edu/ This event is part of the workshop "Making 'The Future of Work' Work," organized by Silvia Lindtner, Cindy Lin, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, and Paul Dourish. http://techculturematters.com/events/nsf-workshop-making-the-future-of-work-... See the event announcement on the Web: http://esc.umich.edu/event/making-the-future-of-work-work-labor-in-the-globa... These events are generously supported by the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), the National Science Foundation HTF "Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier" (Award #1744359), and the School of Information at the University of Michigan.