Sana Ahmad

@San_amd
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Research fellow @WZB_GlobalWork | co-host http://purplecode.org | Interested in labor, agency, automation, global value chains, IT-Services/ platform economy, intersectionality.
Migrant workers in Germany supply crucial labor to global social media platforms! In this new episode of Purple Code podcast, we speak with two former content moderators about their experiences of corporate authoritarianism at a Berlin-based company and challenges of accessing trade unions and institutional resources for power struggle. Tune in at https://purplecode.org/.
Purple Code – A Podcast about intersectional feminist perspectives on digital societies

10/15 🚴 You can also join the session on using reverse engineering and #GDPR to support workers in the gig economy, with Simone Robutti from Reversing Works, Aida Ponce Del Castillo from European Trade Union Institute, Cansu Safak from Worker Info Exchange,
Justin Nogarede from FES Future of Work, and researcher @San_amd

More session details here: https://privacycamp.eu/using-reverse-engineering-and-gdpr-to-support-workers-in-the-gig-economy/

Using reverse engineering and GDPR to support workers in the gig economy

We want to inform the workers community about these advances and explain the limits of the current debate. We want to share advances in research and try to speak to an audience of potential links to local struggles, because the gap between digital rights and trade unionism is pretty wide, and it shouldn’t be. We […]

PrivacyCamp.eu
5 years later and the PhD monograph is open access! Ground Control is a tale of power relations in content moderation value chains, of the limits of algorithmic management, and much more. A more lucid book version will inshallah come out next year.
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/40979
Refubium - Ground Control: Organizing Content Moderation for Social Media Platforms

💼 Come work with us! 💼
We're looking for a Predoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) for the AGEAI: Ageism in #AI project of our @WZB_GlobalWork research group.
🚨 Apply until September 30.
#jobs #AcademicMastodon #academicjobs
👉 https://www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/research-fellow-fmx-239-201
@rg @geo @San_amd @Weizenbaum_Institut
Research Fellow (f/m/x)

For its Research Group Globalization, Production and Work, the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) is looking for A Research Fellow (f/m/x) to be employed for a period of 36 months, starting on 1st...

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Mystery AI Hype Theater podcast episode 10 is out today!

"Don't Be A Lawyer, ChatGPT"

Where @alex and I were joined by @kendraserra who shared their brilliance to help us take down AI hype about legal applications.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/13414023-episode-10-don-t-be-a-lawyer-chatgpt-march-3-2023

#MAIHT3k #AIhype

Thanks, as always, to Christie Taylor for production!

Episode 10: Don't Be A Lawyer, ChatGPT. March 3, 2023 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Alex and Emily are taking AI to court! Amid big claims about LLMs, a look at the facts about ChatGPT, legal expertise, and what the bar exam actually tells you about someone's ability to practice law--with help from Harvard legal and technology sc...

Buzzsprout
Call for Applications; DL: October 16, 2023 — ISA RC02 Economy & Society

As part of a strategic investment for a transformative expansion of the faculty of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University invites invite applications for tenured and tenure-track appointments at any rank. In the initial phase, beginning i

ISA RC02 Economy & Society
Capitalism, anticapitalism and social sciences engaged on a global scale; 11-12 Sep'23 https://www.rc02.org/announcements/2023/8/17/capitalism-anticapitalism-and-social-sciences-engaged-on-a-global-scale-11-12-sep23
Capitalism, anticapitalism and social sciences engaged on a global scale; 11-12 Sep'23 — ISA RC02 Economy & Society

To mark its 60th anniversary, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme is organising the international conference "Capitalism, anticapitalism and social sciences engaged on a global scale: around the work of Immanuel Wallerstein", to be held in Paris , on September 11 and 12, 2023

ISA RC02 Economy & Society
How will work look like in 2045? asked students last weekend as part of the Global Citizenship Education funded by the Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission. Glad to have participated in the future of work discussion with some of my knowhow on workplace automation. Learnt a few things too!
New Purple Code Episode with Helena Mihaljević, mathematician, boxer and passionate activist:
Purple Code Summer Special
https://purplecode.org/?podcast=with-helena-mihaljevic
With Helena Mihaljević

A conversation with Helena Mihaljević – on maths, boxing and chess, and the gender gap in science. Our summer break episode is a special one: Helena Mihaljević, mathematician and professor for computer science, talks about her fascination for math, chess and boxing; about her migration history; about training data that are so deeply rooted in our culture and history. Helena elaborates why math is not neutral, how she experiences improvements in the tech industry, and her involvement in an ongoing study of the gender gap in different sciences and regions. Listen to our conversation on how to empower young women to be confident in tech jobs, and how we should have tech companies and technology audits that are contextual and participative, carried out together with advocacy organizations and researchers. Helena on Twitter @h_mihaljevic

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"Our lives also matter" - yesterday in Berlin at a protest organised by No Border Assembly Berlin, Bleiberecht für Alle, @refugeesinlibya, RefugeesTunisia, and others against the recent EU-Tunisia deal to stop refugees from entering Europe. Is it not border violence if the deal ignores mounting evidence of racism and clear violation of human rights by Tunisian authorities?