PhD defence: Timothy Charlton-Czaplicki

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Timothy Charlton-Czaplicki has submitted his thesis entitled:

Arendt in the Platformised World:

Labour, Work and Action on Digital Platforms

Research on the future of work on digital platforms is predominantly focused on economic factors, revealing little about how a transformation of our basic activities affects political life. This dissertation draws on Arendt’s political theory to investigate this connection by mapping the impact of platformisation on human activity—labour, work and action—along three empirical analyses: a sequence analysis of gig workers’ careers, a topic model of remote gig workers’ discourse and a qualitative content analysis of open source intelligence and investigation communities on social platforms. The findings suggest that platformisation both inhibits and enables political life by undermining the quality of the work process and allowing for new platform-enabled forms of hybrid work-action.

Primary Supervisor:
Associate Professor Attila Márton

Department of Digitalization

Copenhagen Business School

Secondary Supervisor:

Assistant Professor Philipp Hukal

Department of Digitalization

Copenhagen Business School

Assessment Committee:

Associate Professor Daniel Hardt (Chair)

Department of Management, Society and Communication

Copenhagen Business School

Junior Professor Armin Beverungen

Leuphana, University of Lüneburg

Sociology and cultural organization

Associate Professor Elena Parmiggiani

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Computer Science

Thesis:
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk

Reception:
The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in the Atrium.