As part of our DiPLab seminar, we are delighted to welcome our friend and colleague, Dr. Funda Ustek Spilda, Senior Lecturer and South East Asia Programmes Lead at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, on 20 February 2026 at 3:00 pm CET. The seminar will be held in person Read more
We are thrilled to announce a significant milestone for one of our own: Dr. Mathilde Abel has been appointed as an Associate Professor at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris! This remarkable achievement acknowledges Dr. Abel’s groundbreaking research and dedication to unraveling the intricacies of digital capitalism and platform labor. Read more
Our DiPLab seminar will welcome on September 26, 2025, at 3:00 PM CET, Assistant Professor Tim Christiaens (Tilburg University), Associate Professor Francesca Ciulli (Tilburg University), and Assistant Professor Ivana Vranjes (Tilburg University), for an exciting presentation titled Building community around what matters: network bricolage among online crowdworkers. The seminar will be held Read more
Our DiPLab seminar will welcome on July 03, 2025, at 3:30 PM CET, Professor Francisca Gutiérrez Crocco (Universidad Austral de Chile). The seminar will be held both in person, seminar room 1.2 at the ISC-PIF, 113 rue Nationale, 75013 Paris, France. To register, click on the button below and fill out the form. Read more
On 16-17 May 2025, DiPLab’s Paola Tubaro was invited by the French Institute in Argentina to participate in its landmark event “Night of Ideas.” At world-famous Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, she spoke in panels that provocatively questioned the “new voluntary servitude” of platform work and asked whether “in AI Read more
We are overjoyed to welcome Amani Parvathaneni and Sebastián Budnevich as the newest members of the DiPLab team! Over the past several months, these exceptional postgraduate students have already made significant contributions to our scientific research initiatives. Amani and Sebastián have excelled in processing complex datasets across multiple projects, while Read more
Our DiPLab seminar will welcome on May 23, 2025, at 5 PM CET, Professor Evan Selinger (Rochester Institute of Technology) for a conversation with Antonio Casilli. The seminar will be held at Maison de la Recherche, 28 Rue Serpente, 75006 Paris, room D421. To register, click on the button below and fill out Read more
We share the exciting news of two new papers that were published last month, concerning parts of the extensive research DiPLab conducts on the networks of production of AI The first paper is titled “Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America” (by Read more
Our DiPLab seminar will welcome our postdoctoral researchers Mathilde Abel (CREST – ENSAE & CNRS) and Lucas Souza (ENSAE) as presenters, for two presentations and an interesting discussion, that will explore two different aspects of platform labor: ride-hailing workers and food-couriers. The seminar will be held at Télécom Paris, 19 Place Read more
We are delighted to welcome two new postdoctoral researchers to our team! Mathilde Abel and Lucas Souza join DiPLab opening up new horizons and diversifying scientific research in our projects. Their work will add to projects like VOLI and contribute to the Digital Labor discussion. Mathilde and Lucas have been Read more