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Dear Brishen,<br>
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I'm looking forward to your presentation on the sharing economy and
possible legal responses! I'm currently doing a research project on
the governing of search engines in European contexts.. there's a new
European data protection law negotiated right now, which is supposed
to be binding for all European countries.. you can imagine that this
is a rather tough negotiation process given the fact that countries
like Ireland (where Facebook, Google and others have found their
European homes due to tax reasons and liberal data protection laws)
and Germany or Austria (with a long tradition in strict data
protection legislation) have very different interests, economic
cultures & concepts of privacy etc. Besides, US tech companies
are heavily lobbying since their business models are at risk and the
European market is a huge one.. against the background of the NSA
affair and the fact that more and more Europeans are concerned about
their personal data the case of the European data protection reform
serves as an interesting case to study how search engines (Google)
and others (FB etc) are/ may be governed in European contexts.. but
also how some sort of European vision is forming in the context of
data protection primarily understood as a counter-voice to the US IT
industry etc. - drawing on Jasanoff & Kim (2009) I call it a
"sociotechnical imaginary" seen as co-produced by technological
developments and the forming (falling apart) of European data
protection visions.. I'm in the middle of fieldwork right now (doing
a media & policy analysis on search engines in the context of
the reform and qualitative interviews with various stakeholders
involved in the process), but it might be interesing to compare the
European case with the American case at a later stage.. especially
since "Europe" (whatever that is) increasingly aims to challenge
US-American practices, ideologies, and legislations in this context,
on the one hand, and remains highly dependent on the US IT industry,
on the other, since hardly any European internet services exist (not
least because all successful technologies, which are just a few
anyway, have been sold to US companies; e.g. Skype having been
bought by Microsoft) - which is yet another aspect to investigate
further.. <br>
<br>
I'll be presenting something else at the digital labor conference,
but it might be fun to catch up on these issues nevertheless.. if
you think our work is related at all.. ;)<br>
<br>
In any case, I'm looking forward to meeting you in NYC! Best, Astrid<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 15.09.14 21:18, schrieb Brishen
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<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,
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<div>I'm really excited for the Digital Labor conference this
year, and apologize for my belated introduction. I'm currently
an Associate Professor of Law at Temple University, where I
teach torts, employment discrimination, and various labor law
courses. Before law school I was a community and union
organizer for a number of years. My scholarship focuses on the
particular challenges facing low-wage and informal workers in
the current era of neoliberal globalization. So, right now I
have a project on the role of law in constituting and
governing global value chains, and several projects on the
relationship between basic labor protections and egalitarian
distributive justice. </div>
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<div>In the past, my work has addressed questions of the
relationship between work, worker power, and technology, and I
plan to expand that focus in the future. My first article,
"Toward Third-Party Liability for Wage Theft" argued in part
that Walmart and other mega-retailers use of sophisticated
monitoring technologies to drive down prices and otherwise to
discipline their suppliers should expose them to liability for
those suppliers' subsequent violations of wage & hour
laws. A subsequent article published last year ("Justice at
Work: Minimum Wage Laws and Social Equality") considered the
relationship between wage levels, productivity, employers'
decisions to invest in labor versus technological goods, and
basic social equality between employers and workers. I am also
working on a short piece now (which I plan to present at the
conference) on how the so-called "sharing economy" is
undermining important public goods, and how regulatory theory
may respond.</div>
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<div>FWIW, my published articles are available here: <a
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<div>Again, I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone in
November. </div>
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<div>Brishen</div>
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