2021
15 DECEMBER
Microworkers.com : data-driven analysis of the anatomy and development of the platform
Chiara Belletti
Looking for Data Work in Facial Recognition Production
Assia Wirth
24 NOVEMBER
The Data Production Dispositif
Milagros Miceli and Julian Posada
30 JUNE
Diplab Summer Event
16 JUNE
COVID and personal networks (*)
Louise Ryan (London Met U) and Alessio D’Angelo (Uni Nottingham):
2 JUNE
Click farms in Brazil (*)
Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos)
19 MAY
The Gender Wage Gap in Online Labour Market (*)
Abi Adams-Prassl (U. Oxford)
5 MAY
TBD
21 APRIL
Reading Group:
Towards a Critical Race Methodology in Algorithmic Fairness
Assia Wirth (U Paris-Saclay): Alex Hanna et al (2020)
⟨download the pdf⟩
Bringing the People Back In: Contesting Benchmark Machine Learning Datasets
Elinor Wahal (ENS Paris-Saclay): Emily Denton et al. (2020)
⟨download the pdf⟩
7 APRIL
Internal meeting (Website)
24 MARCH
Outsourcing in Germany and France – Results from a company survey
Chiara Belletti
10 MARCH
Pre-submission paper about research design
Clément Le Ludec, Maxime Cornet, Elinor Wahal and Mandie Joulin
24 FEBRUARY
Microtasking: computing with the crowd
Iraklis Vogiatzis, U. of Athens
10 FEBRUARY
Regulatory and legal changes in labor law in France
Victor Audouin, U. Paris 1
27 JANUARY
The history of micro-working
Antonio Casilli
13 JANUARY
Value Chains of AI
Clément Le Ludec and Mandie Joulin
2020
16 DECEMBER
Workshop on how to use micro-tasking platforms
Paola Tubaro, Elinor Wahal, Julian Posada
2 DECEMBER
Results from recent fieldwork
Antonio Casilli, Maxime Cornet, Clément Le Ludec
18 NOVEMBER
Firms outsourcing decisions during the Covid crisis
Chiara Belletti
4 NOVEMBER
(skipped because Unboxing AI Conference)
21 OCTOBER
Between Subjectivity and Imposition: Power Dynamics in Data Annotation for Computer Vision
Milagros Miceli, TU Berlin
7 OCTOBER
Welcome session for new arrivals
23 SEPTEMBER
Labour as a Commodity: Social Reproduction in Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence
Julian Posada, U of Toronto
9 SEPTEMBER
Optimizing Microtasking Platforms from a User’s Perspective
Matthias Hirth, TU Ilmenau
11 AUGUST
Informal Summer meeting 2
21 JULY
Informal Summer meeting 1
30 JUNE
Invited talk: Microworking in Brazil
Bruno Moreschi, Gabriel Pereira and Fabio Cozman
23 JUNE
SWIRL: Report on platforms
Maxime Cornet and Mandie Joulin
9 JUNE
Invited Talk: Three ways to study the elites in Madagascar through their networks
Linda Rua, PSL
26 MAY
Working conditions and practices on Microtasking platforms
Ngoc-Phung Tran
12 MAY
Training session 2: Publishing research papers
Antonio Casilli, Ulrich Laitenberger, Paola Tubaro
28 APRIL
Internal meeting (DMP)
22 APRIL
Global Production Networks of Digital Labour: Hidden Human Factors in The Production of Artificial Intelligence for Health
Elinor Wahal
17 APRIL
Training Session 1: Research Design
Antonio Casilli, Ulrich Laitenberger, Paola Tubaro
(*) = sessions open to external participants.