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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kia ora<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please join us in-person or online for a research seminar by
<b>Dr Angela Ki Le (<a href="https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmlk/">NUS</a> / <a href="https://funggfp.princeton.edu/people/angela-ke-li">
Princeton)</a></b> on the topic of <b>‘Labour as Optimal Subject: Digital Platforms and Techno-Politics in China’</b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Date / time:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> 7<sup>th</sup> May 10am NZT / 8am AEST | 6<sup>th</sup> May 6pm EST / 11pm UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Place: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Burns 4 /
<a href="https://forms.gle/FcXtz6jte6jMyv5b7">register for Zoom link</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">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 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Meituan Waimai, China’s dominant food-delivery platform, the talk unveils human choices beneath the façade of technological innocence.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">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 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Angela Ke Li
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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
<i>Broken Promises: Ride-Hailing and the Failures of Technological Solutionism</i>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All welcome and please do share with interested parties!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ngā mihi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Rosie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">Rosemary Overell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Media, Film & Communication Programme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The University of Otago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dunedin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">9054<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Latest publications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis'
<i>Can't get you out of my head</i>: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.),
<i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223"><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal">Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed</span></a></i>.
(pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2021).
<a href="https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/c92d3d05-24b9-47af-b1cf-378523bacfba/content">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Voicing the real in extreme metal</span></a>. <i>Continental Thought & Theory</i>,
<i>3</i>(3), 136-163.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2022).
<a href="https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Methodological Masturbation</span></a>.
<i>LACK: punctual musings</i>. 26<sup>th</sup> August.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=ZW7oyEAAAAAJ&hl=en"><span style="color:#0563C1">Google Scholar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222"><span style="color:#0563C1">LinkedIn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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