ESRC seminar ‘Microenterprise, technology and big data: new forms of digital enterprise and work and ways to research them’
University of Southampton
Grand Habour Hotel, Southampton
10th and 11th October 2016
This seminar will focus on how technology has transformed microenterprise and work and is likely to shape these in the future. The first key aim is to contribute to understanding of digital microenterprise and work in a global perspective. Combining both Global North and Global South perspectives, this seminar seeks to show how new technology including social media and mobile phones are shaping enterprise and work practices. The potentials and risks involved in advanced technologies for how work is performed and experienced and microenterprises set up and organized will be critically interrogated. The second key aim is to explore new data and methods to reveal and understand digital work and microenterprise which are often ‘hidden’ in workers’ and entrepreneurs’ homes and therefore require novel research approaches. New (big) data sources and emerging research infrastructures will be presented and their application for studying enterprise and work practices discussed.
If you would like to present your research in the seminar, please, send an extended abstract to Darja Reuschke ([log in to unmask]) latest by the 31st August 2016.
Confirmed speakers include:
Mark Graham (University of Oxford) ‘Digital Labour and Development: New Knowledge Economies or Digital Sweatshops’
Lena Giesbert (German Institute of Global and Area Studies) ‘Microenterprise and mobile marketing in Kampala, Uganda’
Katherine Gough (Loughborough University) ‘Home-based enterprise and technology in the Global South’
Fiona Williams (University of Chester) ‘Understanding the digital implications of ‘remote rural’ for home-based businesses'
Benjamin Bedwel (Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham) ‘Wearables, mobiles and monitors - what we have learnt by putting emerging technologies to work to capture the reality of home, work and the in-between’
Stuart Middleton (IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton) ‘Geoparsing and Realtime Social Media Analytics: Technical and Social Challenges’
Places are limited. Please register with: Darja Reuschke ([log in to unmask]). PhD students are encouraged to participate and present in the seminar. We will award a limited number of PhD student travel grants.
The seminar series is funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) and jointly organised by Dr Darja Reuschke (University of Southampton), Prof Colin Mason (University of Glasgow), Prof Stephen Syrett (Middlesex University) and Prof Maarten van Ham (Delft University of Technology
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