PhD defence: Timothy Charlton-Czaplicki
Arendt in the Platformised World: Labour, Work and Action on Digital Platforms
Research on the future of work on digital platforms is predominantly focused on economic factors, revealing little about how a transformation of our basic activities affects political life. This dissertation draws on Arendt’s political theory to investigate this connection by mapping the impact of platformisation on human activity—labour, work and action—along three empirical analyses: a sequence analysis of gig workers’ careers, a topic model of remote gig workers’ discourse and a qualitative content analysis of open source intelligence and investigation communities on social platforms. The findings suggest that platformisation both inhibits and enables political life by undermining the quality of the work process and allowing for new platform-enabled forms of hybrid work-action.
Primary Supervisor: Department of Digitalization Copenhagen Business School
Secondary Supervisor: Assistant Professor Philipp Hukal Department of Digitalization Copenhagen Business School
Assessment Committee: Associate Professor Daniel Hardt (Chair) Department of Management, Society and Communication Copenhagen Business School
Junior Professor Armin Beverungen Leuphana, University of Lüneburg Sociology and cultural organization
Associate Professor Elena Parmiggiani Norwegian University of Science and Technology Computer Science
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