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Many, many conversations I have had recently and interviews for my book have touched on this: there are so many people who have an impact by making other people's work better, yet our systems are so individualized and we're so alienated from each other that these people get punished for it.

I truly wish I had an answer, I do not, but I feel this deeply and reflect in my own life on the forms of work that I feel have the most impact and go the least recognized, and what we do about that

Congrats to @andresmh on receiving the Graduate Mentoring Award from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and Princeton's Graduate School!

“He was always available to meet and provided actionable feedback,” said one student. “He was also kind and supportive. Those who know Andrés will agree he has an amazing ring of positive energy.”

Going to #ECSCW2024? In Rimini, Italy, in mid-June?

The call for participation for a workshop on **Discomfort in the making of technologies: (re-)choreographing agency** is still open. This'll be an all-day, in-person event on June 17.

Details:
* Website: https://cci.arts.ac.uk/~jchicau/ECSCW24-workshop/index.html
* Open submission format: 2-3 written pages, a 3-5min video, a portfolio of artistic practices or a combination of the above.
* DL for position papers on June 1, early expressions of interest very much appreciated!

ECSCW'24 Wortkshop

✏️ New paper alert ✏️

Our papers at CHI 2024 are all about workers, bodily needs, and mismatches between digital representation and lived experiences:

🗒️ Not Just A Dot on The Map: Food Delivery Workers as Infrastructure: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3641918

🗒️ Bodywork at Work: Attending to Bodily Needs in Gig, Shift, and Knowledge Work: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642416

Not Just A Dot on The Map: Food Delivery Workers as Infrastructure | Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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What does it take for food delivery platforms to work? New #CSCW2023 work by Riyaj Shaikh, @airi_ & @barbro66depict examines gig labor during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in India: https://tinyurl.com/piecework-cscw2023
We are hosting a workshop on the political and ethical challenges of scale at #ECSCW2023 in Trondheim, Norway, on June 6. There is still room to participate by submitting a short position paper via this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf04yPw6z-MYHscHycka8GHdqf-eUG1f7NrlcOQZuybYPn8KQ/viewform Full details here: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zpac/ws-ecscw2023.html
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Interested in intimate technologies and how we might make room for care work at the workplace? Come to the Discovery Track (Hall A) at #CHI2023 this morning to see Deepika Yadav present our paper "Invisibility or Visibility in Intimate Care at the Workplace? Examining the Use of Breast Pumps" and/or check out the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581411
Invisibility or Visibility in Intimate Care at the Workplace? Examining the Use of Breast Pumps | Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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@jbigham Now that the curious session name has made its way here, I'll take this as my chance to point folks to our #CHI2023 paper: Felt Ethics: Cultivating Ethical Sensibility in Design Practice (https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580875)
Felt Ethics: Cultivating Ethical Sensibility in Design Practice | Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Wow. This needs to be read by everyone who joined Mastodon in the last week: https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/
Home invasion - Mastodon's Eternal September begins

The fediverse is dealing with a huge wave of Twitter people bringing toxic ideas with them.