[csaa-forum] 'Labour as Optimal Subject: Digital Platforms & Techno-Politics in China' ~ Angela Ke Li talk 7 May 10am NZT

[Rosemary Overell]

Kia ora

Please join us in-person or online for a research seminar by Dr Angela Ki Le (NUS<https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmlk/> / Princeton)<https://funggfp.princeton.edu/people/angela-ke-li> on the topic of ‘Labour as Optimal Subject: Digital Platforms and Techno-Politics in China’.

Date / time: 7th May 10am NZT / 8am AEST | 6th May 6pm EST / 11pm UK
Place: Burns 4 / register for Zoom link<https://forms.gle/FcXtz6jte6jMyv5b7>

Abstract:
Algorithmic management represents the latest trend in applying technology to labor control. The current literature predominantly examines its external impacts on workers, leaving the internal design logic largely unexplored. Drawing upon the case study of Meituan Waimai, China’s dominant food-delivery platform, the talk unveils human choices beneath the façade of technological innocence. The combination of coercion and neoliberal governance sets apart digital platforms in China from their Western counterparts, which predominantly rely on rules of algorithms from afar. Ultimately, I argue that algorithmic management is shaped by, as well as serves as an expression of local labor politics which provides a productive vantage point onto the important question concerning technology and work in concrete contexts. Additionally, by shedding light on the design choices embedded in algorithmic management, this talk not only enriches our understanding of algorithmic management but also provides insights for scholars investigating algorithmic accountability on a broader scale.

Angela Ke Li is a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University and an assistant professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore. Her research and teaching are at the nexus of various fields, including political economy of communication and culture, science and technology studies, and anthropology to contemporary China. She is now finalizing her first book, entitled Broken Promises: Ride-Hailing and the Failures of Technological Solutionism.

All welcome and please do share with interested parties!

Ngā mihi

Rosie.

Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film & Communication Programme
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2021). Voicing the real in extreme metal<https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/c92d3d05-24b9-47af-b1cf-378523bacfba/content>. Continental Thought & Theory, 3(3), 136-163.
Overell, R. (2022). Methodological Masturbation<https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/>. LACK: punctual musings. 26th August.

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