Crosby Seminar Room, 240 Northrop
Therapy Apps and Virtual Nurses: Of Meaning, Machines and the Future of Connective Labor
Allison Pugh, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, argues that the contemporary degradation of connective labor, particularly for disadvantaged people, makes its automation more acceptable. She asks what connective labor has in common across fields, and how we might make that work more systematic without getting in its way.