(*) = sessions open to external participants.
Year 2021
15 Decembre : Microworkers.com : data-driven analysis of the anatomy and development of the platform (Chiara Belletti) and 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: Louise Ryan (London Met U) & Alessio D’Angelo (Uni Nottingham): COVID and personal networks (*)
2 June: Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos): Click farms in Brazil (*)
19 May: Abi Adams-Prassl (U. Oxford): The Gender Wage Gap in Online Labour Market (*)
5 May: TBD
21 April: Reading Group: Assia Wirth (U Paris-Saclay): Alex Hanna et al (2020) Towards a Critical Race Methodology in Algorithmic Fairness https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.03593.pdf — Elinor Wahal (ENS Paris-Saclay): Emily Denton et al. (2020). Bringing the People Back In: Contesting Benchmark Machine Learning Datasets https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.07399.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)
Year 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)