Sub-theme 73: AI Power, Organization & Subjectivity: How Does AI Affect Our Subjectivities and Identities?
Convenors:
David Knights, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Guy Huber, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Ella W. Hafermalz, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Session I: Thursday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, Pierce-PC 809
AI and Working Lives
Chair: Ella Hafermalz, Guy Huber, Jeremy Aroles
Laurianne Terlinden, Aurelie Verachtert and Jellis Bollens
AI in healthcare: Identity threat or opportunity? A qualitative survey across medical specialists
Discussant(s): Aisling Tuite, Antoinette Jordan & Ray Griffin
Aisling Tuite, Antoinette Jordan and Ray Griffin
AI-tamed: An action learning adventure in how public service caseworkers resist and adapt to algorithmic control
Discussant(s): Laurianne Terlinden, Jellis Bollens & Aurelie Verachtert
We will welcome you to the sub theme, followed by our first paper presentations
Session II: Thursday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, Pierce-PC 809
AI and Performativity
Chair: Guy Huber
Burcu Altan Kuru and Deniz Tunçalp
How generative AI affects developer subjectivities and identities: A phenomenology of software developers in a bank
Discussant(s):
Constanze Kerres & Lise Justesen
Constanze Kerres and Lise Justesen
Ethics and AI in the organization: Towards a sociomaterial approach
Discussant(s): Roman Glass
Roman Glass
AI, power dynamics, and organizational performativity: Navigating diversity, consensus, and control in IT projects
Discussant(s): Burcu Altan Kuru & Deniz Tunçalp
Session III: Friday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, Pierce-PC 809
AI and Management
Chair: Ella Hafermalz
Elisa Montori
One, no one, and one hundred thousand: Entrepreneurial and enterprises’ identities on social media platforms
Discussant(s): Claudine Bonneau, Viviane Sergi and Jeremy Aroles
Claudine Bonneau, Viviane Sergi and Jeremy Aroles
Scripting managers’ roles: The game of expectations of emotion AI
Discussant(s): Johan Jönsson, Sverre Spoelstra & Peter Svensson
Johan Jönsson, Sverre Spoelstra and Peter Svensson
Algorithmic leadership and the reshaping of the subject of the leader: Preliminary ideas from a project in the making
Discussant(s): Adina Sterling & Natasha Overmeye
Session IV: Friday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, Pierce-PC 809
AI, Fairness, and Accountability
Chair: Guy Huber
Fátima Oliveira, Anderson Sant'Anna and Daniela Diniz
Culture, administration, and subjectivity in the digital age
Discussant(s): Sanat Kozhakhmet
Loreta Tauginienė, Raminta Pucetaite and Eglė Butkevičienė
Developing avenues for empirical research on overcoming human and AI bias in research(er) assessment
Discussant(s): Elisa Montori
Sanat Kozhakhmet
The ethics of undergraduate student’s identity work in writing summative essays in the era of ChatGPT
Discussant(s): Guy Huber
Adina D. Sterling and Natasha Overmeyer
Is it the expression that counts? Gender and the hiring of women and men into entry-level sales jobs
Discussant(s): Fátima Bayma de Oliveira, Anderson de Souza Sant'Anna & Dra Daniela Martins Diniz
Session V: Friday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, Pierce-PC 809
AI, Borders, and Boundaries
Chair: Jeremy Aroles
Zhuoyue Pang
Project Leaders’ Authority and Its Impact on Open-Access Innovation: Gender Differences in Medical Research
Discussant(s): Vedant Kaul
David Barbera
Ghost algorithms? Subsidiary algorithmic work and negotiations with experts in the development of medical AI
Discussant(s): Loreta Tauginienė, Raminta Pučėtaitė & Eglė Butkevičienė
Vedant Kaul and Shibashis Mukherjee
The accountability myth of the algorithmic management: Role of humans and algorithms in platforms
Discussant(s): David Barbera
Session VI: Saturday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, Pierce-PC 809
AI, Power, and Resistance
Chair: Ella Hafermalz
Neva Bojovic, Vassiliki Mylonopoulou and Swen Gaudl
The AI-Staged Disability Inclusion Model: How Generative AI Represents Invisible Disabilities Through Hyper-Visibility and
Narrative Discipline
Discussant(s): Alessandro Niccolò Tirapani, Sara Lara Marquez Gallardo & Lucas Amaral
Alessandro Niccolò Tirapani, Sara Lara Marquez Gallardo and Lucas Amaral
Sneaking past the ‘faceless stigmatiser’: How high-end escorts cope with algorithmic stigmatization on social media
Discussant(s): Neva Bojovic, Vassiliki Mylonopoulou & Swen Gaudl
Session VII: Saturday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, Pierce-PC 809
AI Power and Resistance
Chair: Ella Hafermalz & Guy Huber
Guy Huber and David Knights
AI, gender and performativity: Reproducing the problems of the past
Discussant(s): Ray Griffin, Aisling Tuite & Antoinette Jordan
Ray Griffin, Aisling Tuite and Antoinette Jordan
The social life of an unsupervised public AI algorithm: An ethnographic exploration of uncertainty, surveillance and resistance
in the PEX unemployment algorithm
Discussant(s): Ella W Hafermalz
Paper presentations and closing