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Paolo Borghi is currently a senior researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia, where he works on several research projects on digitalisation processes, welfare systems, housing, platform work and collective representation, with a mixedmethod approach. He obtained a double PhD in 2018 at the Department of Sociology and Social Research (Bicocca University of Milan) and at the Department of Sociology (Humboldt University of Berlin), where he conducted comparative research on collective representation of selfemployed workers in Italy and Germany. He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Work and Employment Relations Division of Leeds University Business School and at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan conducting qualitative fieldwork in Italy and the UK as part of the ERC SHARE- Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Representing self-Employment (2018–2023) project. He worked as a researcher at the Department of Economics ‘Marco Biagi’ of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Vassilis Charitsis is a Senior Lecturer at Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London. His research interests lie on the intersection of digital capitalism and the datafication of everyday life. His work has been published, amongst others, in Information Communication & Society, Television & New Media, Social Movement Studies, Surveillance & Society and Triple C: Communication, Capitalism and Critique.
Francesco Della Puppa (PhD) is Associate Professor in General Sociology at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is interested in international migration; migrant family and family reunification; labour and social conflict; migrant work; digital work; everyday-life; Bangladeshi Diaspora; ethnography and qualitative social research.
Lately, he has been interested in social sciences and comic, (ethno)graphic novels, and in establishing academic, scientific, social and human relations with Cuba.
Dipsita Dhar is an activist researcher and PhD Scholar at Centre for Studies of Regional Development in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her doctoral thesis looks into the relationship between
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