Lauren Ellsworth

Bio

Lauren is a senior at the University of Chicago studying computer science and law, with a focus on legal implications of internet technologies, particularly surrounding data portability, reputation regulation, and expectation of privacy. She is interested in the role that developers play in innovation, the shifting role of media with the introduction of social media, and the internet as a network, in which personal network relations still reign supreme.

Abstract

Putting the Entire Population To Work

Lauren is a participant in the student panel on digital labor and the body. Her work explores social media, and the way in which media and interpersonal relationships shift with the introduction of international communities of communication. Is participation in these communities labor? Are we putting the entire population to work? Or are we transferring existing work to a new medium, that coincidentally yields a greater capacity for aggregating and processing consumer data.