<div dir="ltr"><div>Good day to everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm very excited of the prospect of participation in #DL14, and the introductions up until now make for a wonderful teaser. </div><div><br></div><div>I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology (of Work) at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. My current research focus lays at the intersection of digital work and quality of life, namely I am looking at how digital workers subjectively assess their quality of life, and how they build their social and personal identities in the light of this relatively atypical work arrangement.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A biographic detail that is closely intertwined with my interest in the topic is that I spent the summer before starting my PhD on the internet, doing digital work. While I never fully identified with the digital worker "status", the experience proved rich enough to fire up my interest, and soon enough it turned into the research topic for my PhD. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Alexandra Florea</div><img src="http://t.signauxun.com/img.gif?ukey=agxzfnNpZ25hbHNjcnhyGAsSC1VzZXJQcm9maWxlGICAgID6gYYLDA&key=9a427e3f-d364-40ba-fdff-55f61ce4dfb1" width="1" height="1" style="display:none"></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Alexandra Florea<div>PhD Candidate IPP Transnational</div><div>Goethe Univesity Frankfurt</div><div>Find me on Twitter: @alleyah</div></div></div>
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 02:35:54 +0800<br>
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Hi, There is another set of identity, which sychronizes abstract, intangle, utopian and transgressing time-spatial dimension: this identity embraces ahistorical vision, belief, shared by mediated labour, perceived by the elite who reputs avant-garde activism, imaginative brotherhood for leisure-common and constituent publics... A key sample of this class is the collective community architect or designer and progressive artist who identifies progressive value without historical compromise.<br>
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Andrew Lam, Curator of Jume 4th Museum<br>
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> Aneesh <<a href="mailto:aneesh@uwm.edu">aneesh@uwm.edu</a>> ? 2014?6?12? ??3:15 ???<br>
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> I am happy to join what looks like a wonderful list leading to the conference. My name is Aneesh, first and last, and can be read with an emphasis, Aneesh Aneesh, or as a meaningless repetition. I'm Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Previously, I taught in the Science and Technology Program at Stanford University (2001-04). My scholarship intersects the realms of globalization, labor, and technology. In 2006, I authored a book, Virtual Migration: the programming of Globalization (Duke 2006), that attempts to bring the three together in a meaningful way. On a similar topic, I published an article, Global Labor: Algocratic Modes of Organization, that may be of interest to some of you.<br>
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> My new book, Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global (Duke U Press), will be available early next year. In recent years, I have co-edited two books, Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices (Rutgers 2011) and The Long 1968: Revisions and New Perspectives (Indiana 2013).<br>
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> I'm mentioning my abstract for the presentation at the digital labor conference below:<br>
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> The Uses of Personality: Social, Bureaucratic and System Identities<br>
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> While social identity is an identity continually renegotiated through linguistic interactions and social performances, bureaucratic identity?glimpsed in passports, driver?s licenses, and other identity cards?is a construction of fixed personhood for the purposes of modern organizational needs, ensuring that the member has remained essentially the same despite changes in personality, body, and behavior. With the spread of information technologies, however, there has emerged a new variation of identity?system identity, which represents persons as dynamically forming clouds of data. While system identities can serve the bureaucratic need for identifying members, their role far surpasses the functional necessities of inclusion and exclusion. This presentation highlights the importance of this differentiation, and charts its latest development.<br>
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Greetings to all -<br>
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It?s been a pleasure getting caught up on reading the introductions of colleagues whom I already know and those from people I look forward to meeting. My name is Sarah Roberts; at present, I am an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) at Western University in Ontario. At FIMS, where I recently completed my first year in residency, my research focuses on the practice of commercial content moderation (CCM).<br>
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CCM is the practice of screening of user-generated content (UGC) posted to Internet sites, social media platforms and other online outlets that encourage and rely upon such material to generate visits to and participation from users. Despite being essential to the media production cycle for these commercial websites and social media platforms as a major source of brand protection, gatekeeping and tastemaking, commercial content moderation is largely unknown outside its own industry and those that rely on it. My research endeavors to unveil the practice of commercial content moderation and to further contextualize it alongside contemporary trends of globalization, outsourcing and other economic and geospatial reconfigurations facilitated by the increasingly networked nature of the world. CCM tasks vacillate from the mind-numbingly repetitive and mundane to exposure to images and material that can be violent, disturbing and, at worst, psychologically damaging, and it requires these tas<br>
ks of workers that are frequently relatively low-status and low-wage. The workers are typically further isolated because the work they do is in secret, considered an issue of brand protection by their employers. More can be found at <a href="http://illusionofvolition.com" target="_blank">http://illusionofvolition.com</a> for those interested.<br>
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I?ll stop myself here and just say simply that I look forward to meeting the workers, artists and academics who will be in attendance, and sharing ideas with you. In addition to participating in the conference itself, I am honored to serve the event as a member of the advisory board, which mostly means supporting Trebor?s exciting vision for this event. Can?t wait to see all of you in New York.<br>
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With very best wishes,<br>
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