In a wide-ranging discussion of digital culture and the future of work, your hosts Chris Bilton and Carolina Bandinelli talk with sociologist Alessandro Gandini about how digital media have transformed our experience of work and our sense of self, especially in the years since the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst this has led to some nostalgia for pre-digital communities of place, for most of us platformisation has been a process of adaptation and intensification as we seek to negotiate ‘a self that works’ in the online world.

Alessandro Gandini is an Associate Professor in the Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan. His research centres on digital labour, platformisation and digital culture. His books include Zeitgeist Nostalgia: on Populism, Work and the Good Life(2020) and The Reputation Economy: Understanding Knowledge Work in Digital Society (2016).

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