Sébastien Antoine presents "Programming Language: The Socio-Linguistic Politics of Global Tech Work in Brazil"

 

This workshop aims at presenting and discussing insights on the socio-linguistic politics of global development teams, based on the experience of Brazilian tech workers working for European or North American clients or subsidiaries. The talk is based on the first Brazilian results from an ongoing global MSCA research (across Brazil, India, Europe and the US) focusing on the trajectories and worldviews of tech workers from the Majority World.

Speaker: Sébastien Antoine (Visiting Scholar in the department of Sociology)

Hosts: Benjamin Shestakofsky (Sociology) and Juan Sebastián Gil-Riano (History and Sociology of Science and CLALS)

 

*Lunch provided*

 

(This event is organized by the department of Sociology and co-sponsored by CLALS.)