You are cordially invited to the next discussion in the PhD Colloquium Series with Professor Karen Levy, who will talk about her new work which examines surveillance, truckers and the digital mechanisms that aim to enforce the rules that govern their work. Prof Levy will explain how digital monitoring has unexpected and important consequences on the trucking industry. For decades, truckers have kept track of their work time using easily falsified paper logbooks, and performed their work without too much regard for legal work time limits. But new regulations will require that truckers’ time be monitored by digital systems, hard-wired into the trucks themselves, which remove much of the flexibility on which truckers have historically relied. Levy examines the consequences of digital monitoring and argues it reshapes truckers’ social relations and facilitates new forms of control by transport companies, as well as destabilizing traditional power dynamics of law enforcement.
Karen Levy is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at Cornell University and affiliated faculty at Cornell Law School. She holds a JD from Indiana University and a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University.
This event is supported by the Sevellon-Brown Fund.
