The robot and the journalist - automation in the workplace
On 22 November, 2022, Centre for Consumption Research will hold a webinar about the robotization of professional work. Meet Professor Elena Raviola and listen to her presentation on her resent research about how systems of automation, or robots, are used in professional settings. What will be the consequences in the long run, and how does it change work practices? Welcome!
While many believe that highly educated experts and professionals are less threatened by automation than other groups of workers, the contemporary advancements of automation technologies question and transform precisely – and perhaps mostly – the role and practices of established professional groups, like lawyers, doctors and journalists.
Exploring automation in the field of journalism
This seminar will focus on one professional field – that of journalism – and explore how automation has been introduced and used, how work and its organization have transformed and what are the potential consequences on norms that have traditionally considered central to the field and to the functioning of our democracies.
Elena Raviola, Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Professor in Design Management at HDK Valand – Academy of Art and Design:
"My main research interest lies in understanding the role of technology and other material artifacts in organizing and managing professional work, especially in cultural and creative fields. I am more specifically interested in how professional norms, rules, structures and ideas are enacted, changed and maintained, in practice and how technology intervenes in these professional practices, transforming over time what is considered professional. Theoretically, I have mainly worked between institutional theory and actor-network theory." (read more about Elena here)