Talks and presentations
Ground Control: How Platform Companies Outsource Content Moderation
Guest Lecture at University of Brasília, Faculty of Communication at the University of Brasília, Online
https://x.com/inct_dsi/status/1774907937250590742
Using reverse engineering and GDPR to support workers in the gig economy
Panel at Privacy Camp 24: Revealing, Rethinking and Changing Systems, La Tricoterie, Brussels, Brussels
https://privacycamp.eu/using-reverse-engineering-and-gdpr-to-support-workers-in-the-gig-economy/
Platform Governance and the Gig Economy
Lecture for MSt in AI Ethics and Society, University of Cambridge, Online
Doing Digital Business
Guest Lecture for BI Norwegian Business School, Berlin, Berlin
Global Economy of AI and the Future of Work
Lecture on for Global Citizenship Education by the Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission, Initiative Offene Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin
Ground Control using Automation – Implications for Content Moderators & Service Suppliers
ILO Regulating for Decent Work, International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
(https://www.ilo.org/global/research/events-courses/rdw/8/lang–en/index.htm)
Social media platforms and social relations – Using a sociological lens
ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Narrm, Melbourne, Australia
(https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023)
Automated content moderation – A Site of Social and Economic Inequalities in India
ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Narrm, Melbourne, Australia
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023
Invisible Labor and the Global Economy of AI
Technology is never (gender) neutral, German Office of the European Commission, Berlin
Limits of Automation in Content Moderation Work: Evidence from India and Germany
Labor Tech Research Network, Online, Online
http://labortechresearchnetwork.org/index.php/speaker-series/
Supplier Exit as both an Outcome of and Limiting Labor Agency
41st International Labour Process Conference, Technology & Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
https://www.ilpc.org.uk/#
Ground Control: Organizing Content Moderation for Social Media Platforms
WZB talks, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Online
https://www.wzb.eu/de/veranstaltungen/ground-control-organizing-content-moderation-for-social-media-platforms
Limits of Automation in Content Moderation: A Production Perspective
Mozilla Festival 2023, Mozilla Foundation, Online
https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/XJLSVF-1?ref=share
Automation and Structural Conditions for Migrants in Germany
Closed talk, Das Deutsche Zentrum für Integrations und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM), Berlin, Germany
Content Moderation and Data Value Chains
Keynote, Bits & Bäume NRW, Eine Welt Netz, Online
https://nrw.bits-und-baeume.org/
Gig Work and Content Moderation in India
Workshop on work in digital capitalism and global supply chains, Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e. V. (BUND), Online
https://www.bund.net/fileadmin/user_upload_bund/publikationen/termine_und_jobs/world_wide_weltuntergang_politikwerkstatt.pdf
Coded Bias: Screening & Discussion
Panel discussion, Berlin, Filmkunst 66, Berlin, Germany
https://twitter.com/ECDigitalFuture/status/1587887909507661824?s=20&t=iN9w62tcp12CwPDjB6WfWQ
Resistance Against Digital Colonialism
Workshop, Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
https://aianarchies.net/school#day20221019
Sourcing Global Content Moderation Services using Automated Technologies
Seminar, Telecom Paris, Online
https://diplab.eu/sana-ahmad-guest-of-our-bi-monthly-diplab-seminar-wed-29-june-2022-330pm-cest/
OII/TUM Heilbronn series on AI & Work: The Hidden Labour of AI
Webinar, Online, Online
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/oii-tum-heilbronn-series-on-ai-work-the-hidden-labour-of-ai/
Mediated by Technology, Assisted by Precarity
International labour process conference talk, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
https://www.ilpc.org.uk/
Guardians of the Internet: Content Moderators and their Mobility Across a Growing Business process in India’s service economy
ILPC 2021 Conference, Online, Online
https://web.archive.org/web/20210416033028/https://www.ilpc.org.uk/
The Hidden Labor in AI-Capitalism
Berliner Gazette Winter School Program, Online, Haus der Statistik, Online, Berlin
https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/silent-works/
Content Moderation Practices
Lecture, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Online
https://www.ivir.nl/ivir-online-lunch-meeting-sana-ahmad-about-content-moderation-practices/
Guardians of the Internet – Analysing the Social Media Moderation Industry and Offshored Work Processes in India
INDL-2 Conference: Robotize This!, McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
http://endl.network/indl-2-conference-robotize-this/