Karthika recently presented her ongoing research at the workshop Tackling the Impersonality of Algorithmic Management at Tilburg University. The event brought together discussions on how workers experience and interpret platform-mediated work.
Invited by Tim Christiaens (Assistant Professor at Tilburg University), the workshop created space to reflect on why and how workers turn to public review platforms to make sense of their experiences. These discussions helped sharpen the underlying questions guiding Karthika’s research, particularly how such reviews can be read as expressions of worker experiences within algorithmic systems. Alongside a keynote by Antonio Casilli (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), the workshop reinforced the importance of viewing algorithmic management not just as a technical system, but as a social and relational process shaped by everyday worker practices.
Keynote by Antonio Casilli (photo credit: Karthika Nadarajah)