The Hub welcomes Academic Visitor Stephanie Dimatulac Santos who is an interdisciplinary scholar who uses ethnography, digital humanities, and cultural analysis to study the flows of labour and capital between Southeast Asia and the Global North. She is an affiliate with Cambridge Digital Humanities, a lecturer in Cultural Studies at Chulalongkorn University, and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Centre for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (CSWGS) at Rice University.
Dr. Santos’ book project, Smart Labor, Smart Worker: Solidarity and Resistance in Digital Southeast Asia, examines how digital workers in Southeast Asia craft ways of life-making amid forms of emerging labour extraction enabled by internet and communications technologies (ICTs). She explores the intersections of artificial intelligence and socially reproductive labour, using frameworks from science and technology studies and Asian cultural studies to emphasize the feminized labours that sustain transnational digital economies.
Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
Dr Santos will be giving a talk this term, full details of the event to follow shortly!
