BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18696-5501ffe1795c65dfbb4f0cfbef54d1be@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260405T081604Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T170000 SUMMARY:“Automating Servitude: How Platforms Exploit Women’s Work” DESCRIPTION:\nAs apocalyptic job forecasts abound about the future of wo rk in the face of AI\, carework\, including the work of caring for young children\, is seen as immune to the pressures of automation. However\, for the past twenty years\, online platforms offering to match parents a nd careworkers have been quietly growing in scale and global reach\, pro mising a push-button solution to a deeply inadequate and unequal care sy stem in the United States. Boasting millions of users and operating in c ountries around the globe\, platforms like Care.com\, SitterCity and Urb anSitter haven’t received the public attention or scrutiny of other tech companies. Drawing on nearly a decade of participant ethnography\, both online and offline\, with nannies\, parents\, and the platforms they us e to find care\, alongside her own experiences starting a family and fin ding care\, Ticona argues that\, in their efforts to make parenthood eas ier\, platforms end up automating relations of servitude between parents and careworkers. In doing so\, they exploit the precarity and desires o f both mothers and careworkers for different kinds of care systems\, job s\, and a better way to care for our society’s kids.\n\nFor more details : https://events.la.psu.edu/event/automating-servitude/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

As apocalyptic job forecasts abound about the future of work in the face of AI, carewor k, including the work of caring for young children, is seen as immune to the pressures of automation. However, for the past twenty years, online platforms offering to match parents and careworkers have been quietly g rowing in scale and global reach, promising a push-button solution to a deeply inadequate and unequal care system in the United States. Boasting millions of users and operating in countries around the globe, platform s like Care.com, SitterCity and UrbanSitter haven’t received the public attention or scrutiny of other tech companies. Drawing on nearly a decad e of participant ethnography, both online and offline, with nannies, par ents, and the platforms they use to find care, alongside her own experie nces starting a family and finding care, Ticona argues that, in their ef forts to make parenthood easier, platforms end up automating relations o f servitude between parents and careworkers. In doing so, they exploit t he precarity and desires of both mothers and careworkers for different k inds of care systems, jobs, and a better way to care for our society’s k ids.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/automating-servitud e/

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