Invited lecture by Lily Irani on ‘Algorithms of Suspicion: Authentication and Distrust on Digital Labor Platforms’
Lilly Irani is an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego. Her research investigates the cultural politics of high-tech work practices with a focus on how actors produce “innovation” cultures. She is an ethnographer of work trained to analyse interactional, organizational, and cultural dynamics as mediated by technology.She also draws on her training as a Computer Scientist and designer to develop novel technical, and organizational systems for contexts she studies.