UCD DeepLab - Digital Economy & Extreme Politics

During her fieldwork, Marina delved into India's regional diversity, the bustling wedding season for beauty professionals, their motivations, skills, and social media usage. Dividing her time between Bangalore and Hyderabad in the South, a rural town in the North, and New Delhi.

@marinafrid experienced the vastness and cultural complexity of India with the support of our project's Rasmi Guha Ray, @SnehaHossain, new friends and research interlocutors who kindly welcomed her into their homes and workplaces, shared their stories, offered their time and help

🚴‍♀️🍔 In Bengaluru, Rashmi @Guha_Ray joined the gig economy as a food delivery partner! Part of her ethnographic fieldwork, she’s diving into the lives of gig workers. 📦📱 #Ethnography #GigEconomy #Bengaluru

New Report: Social Media as a Digital Labour Platform DeepLab reveals how social media is transforming Brazil’s labour market, with millions navigating unregulated digital economies. 📖 Read more: labdeep.com/reports-2/ @pinheira @marinafrid @JanainaPenalva

Wagner Alves da Silva is now a certified Personal Cleaner and presented research at the National Meeting of Domestic Workers in Rio! Closing his Brazil chapter on a high note. Wagner is off to the Philippines for more impactful research with domestic workers. Obrigado, Brazil!

and how social media and other digital platforms integrate into Filipinos' everyday lives.

Commuting, visiting salons, and engaging with people, she learned more about the urban dynamics in the National Capital Region

and four research assistants from the Institute of Philippine Culture at Ateneo de Manila - Bee, Carl, Cole, and Fia.

During her fieldwork trip to the Philippines, @marinafrid roamed around Metro Manila interviewing beauty workers with the incredible support of our team's Miguel Paolo Rivera

“Moments of crisis open the door for deliberative democracy to thrive.” Read @NicoleCurato & Miguel Rivera's discussion on conspiracy, empathy & reimagining democracy in the Philippines. See takeaways on how community efforts counter disinformation labdeep.com/takeaways/

DeepLab Talk in India!! Title: Entrepreneurialism on Social Media: The Case of Instagram Beauty Creators by @marina.frid 📷 Date: November 19 📷 Time: 2:30 p.m. 📷 Location: CR-3, Department of Communication, S N School of Arts & Communication, The University of Hyderabad, India

With Aline Gama who highlighted striking similarities in the precariousness of platform work across Brazil, India, and the Philippines. They gained valuable insights from Prof Gama’s extensive ethnographic research with food delivery riders. Stay tuned for more updates!

Engaging with ISER - Instituto de Estudos da Religião in a productive discussion on the intersection of religion and politics, examining how everyday religiosity shapes political perspectives.

Meeting with Bruno de Vasconcelos Cardoso and his students at Laboratório de Estudos Digitais - LED (UFRJ/IFCS) to discuss platform work and explore opportunities for South-South collaboration among Brazil, India, the Philippines, and other countries in Asia and Latin America.

Our PhD’s Rashmi Guha Ray,Miguel Paolo Rivera & Wagner Guilherme Alves da Silva are currently in Rio de Janeiro, connecting with academics,exploring platform work and digitalisation in Brazil. Engaging with FGV DAPP on digitalization & AI’s impact on politics & policy in Brazil

@DeepLab is happy to welcome to Dr. Ana Claudia Farranha who is visiting this week! @AnaFarranha has a PhD in Social Sciences (UNICAMP), is a prof at Univ. of Brasília Law School, Vice-Coordinator of the Abdias Nascimento Programme, & a researcher in law, info & race relations

Rashmi Guha Ray (PhD) connected with three female Zomato delivery partners through the food delivery workers' union, discovering that Jyoti (36), a widowed mother, Gauri (31), a workers' rights advocate, and Devi (32), married at 15, stay motivated despite their challenges.

posture, digital marketing, faith, and more—turning individuals into businesses. A highlight? Imagining himself as a future millionaire on the cover of Forbes! 💼✨ #PersonaCleaner #MillionaireMindset #DreamBig #Mentorship #Growth

Wagner Guilherme Alves da Silva's journey as a ‘Personal Cleaner’ continues! This month, he joined events that brought together Personal Cleaners from across the country, focusing on branding,

data scientist @Jessicamatheuss , will be launched later this year. We were also featured in @folha , one of Brazil’s leading newspapers! 📰 Stay tuned for more updates on our groundbreaking report! 💼📱