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Søren Bøgh Sørensen

Ph.d. Fellow

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Departments
Institut for Ledelse, Samfund og Kommunikation
Room: DH.Ø.2.52
Emner
Outsourcing Værdikæde Maskinlæring Globalisering Afrika

Primary research areas

Data-work for ma­chine learn­ing sys­tems
My PhD pro­ject in­vest­ig­ates out­sourcing of data an­nota­tion work to Kenyan work­ers through on­line di­git­al la­bour plat­forms and busi­ness pro­cess out­sourcing com­pan­ies. This out­sourcing is an in­teg­ral part of the glob­al pro­duc­tion net­works of ma­chine learn­ing sys­tems, and the pro­ject ex­am­ines the con­sequences for work­ers in their loc­al con­text of be­com­ing in­teg­rated into the di­git­al value net­works of the con­tem­por­ary glob­al eco­nomy.

I aim to give voice to those un­heard and pro­mote demo­crat­iz­a­tion in the glob­al eco­nomy

My research draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Nairobi to shed light on the working conditions of the often-overlooked workers, who produce the machine learning systems that earn tech-companies astronomical amounts of wealth. My hope is that my research can create discussions around uneven economic development and value extraction in the global digital economy, and, ultimately, push towards a more just and democratic organization of the contemporary global political economy.