Paola Tubaro

Professor Paola Tubaro

Small Group Project 2020-21

Consolidating the International Network on Digital Labour (C-INDL)

C-INDL brings to the next level the two-year experience of an informal, yet vibrant network of scholars who research the future of work in cross-disciplinary perspective. It provides a much-needed space to explore and present original research ideas on computer-mediated work, online value production, automation, and tech-enabled outsourcing. By enabling better communication and coordination between interested scholars, beyond disciplinary and national boundaries, we aim to develop a shared conceptual framework to tackle the transformations of labour in the digital economy and their linkages with artificial intelligence (AI). Our ambition is not only theoretical but also applied, contributing to current policy efforts to define the conditions of a credible societal commitment to responsible AI.

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Areas of interest

Sociology Social Networks Digital Economies Artificial Intelligence Automation Digital Inequalities Disinformation Ethics

Cohort

FG6

Biography

Paola Tubaro is Research Professor (Directrice de Recherche) at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Trained as an economist and gradually morphed into a sociologist, they are a member of the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST) at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, in the Greater Paris area. Tubaro uses social network science to shed new light on the contemporary transformations of markets and organisations. Their current research focuses on the digital platform economy, the global production networks of artificial intelligence, the role of human labour in the development of automation, digital inequalities, and the spread of online disinformation. They are also interested in the ethics of data and artificial intelligence in a connected world. Tubaro is a co-founder of the Digital Platform Labour (DiPLab) research group at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and of the International Network on Digital Labour (INDL).

Biographical details correct as of 29.04.26