Hi Change community, If you're interested in research on gig work, platformization, and the future of work, please consider attending this conversation with Dr. Noopur Raval at the CHIWORK Symposium on Thursday. These conversations are a great way to engage with new ideas and socialize with researchers working in this area. See below for details! Best, Naveena Karusala <https://www.chiwork.org/> chiwork.org | @chiworksymp Noopur Raval in conversation with Neha Kumar at CHIWORK “Studying Intersectional Challenges in Gig Work: Lessons from the Global South” Thursday, November 11, at 5:30 PM UTC / 5:30 PM London / 9:30 AM Seattle / 11:00 PM New Delhi Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98578905160 About Noopur Raval Noopur Raval <https://noopur.xyz/> is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute and an adjunct professor at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. She received her PhD in Informatics from UC Irvine in 2020 and is a tech ethnographer and interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of HCI, Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Postcolonial History. She has written extensively on gig work, platformization and the future of work in the global South. Her new work extends to studying the cultural labor and subjective decision-making by global South data annotators in order to train AI/ML systems. Her work has appeared in CSCW, CHI, ACM Interactions among other venues. She has also worked in UX research at multiple Microsoft Research labs. Noopur is an alumna of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Center for Tech, Society and Policy at UC Berkeley. About Neha Kumar Neha Kumar <https://www.nehakumar.org/> is an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and global sustainable development, with a focus on global health and community informatics. Neha serves as CHIWORK Technical Program Committee co-Chair. About CHIWORK The Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK) brings together experts with various backgrounds to build an understanding of how advanced HCI will support work in the future and how it will also allow workers to balance work and wellbeing. The symposium is an ongoing event, with online conversations that are held roughly once a week, throughout the year. Each conversation is 60 minutes long, split into two 30-minute segments. The first segment is recorded and it starts with a dialogue between an organizer and one or more expert guests. This dialogue is followed by questions from the audience. The second segment is not recorded – during these 30 minutes the conversation becomes a social event where participants can discuss any topic.