Event overview
This week, the seminar series welcomes Dr Martin Webb, from the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths.
Martin’s talk will be on how in India the capture of images as a means of checking if workers or school children are present is becoming increasingly prevalent. Facial recognition software is used to log pupils into classrooms. Corporations offering "at home services" via digital platforms use selfies to confirm the identity of operatives. Workers in community facing roles, often working remotely in the margins of the neoliberal state, circulate selfies and other images as evidence of presence and tasks completed via WhatsApp groups set up by project managers.
Drawing on fieldwork carried out in Delhi the talk explores the everyday production of networks of visibility within projects by employers and workers, and the informal repurposing as organizational tools and 'transparency devices' of messaging and social media apps designed to facilitate participatory digital cultures of pleasure, leisure and self-making. By paying attention to these practices we begin to develop a grounded view of the ways in which technology, media, and image making practices play a key role in the everyday organization of projects and services and are becoming woven into regimes of transparency, accountability and work/time discipline.
Martin’s talk will be based on co-authored research carried out with Dr Riad Azam, Senior Research Analyst at M-CRIL Ltd (Delhi, India), and Farhat Salim, PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India). We are delighted that both Riad Azam and Farhat Salim will be joining Martin for the Q&A section.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 Mar 2023 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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