Seminar Digital Regulation: Rethinking Boundaries and Control in the Digital Era

The seminar is reserved for the Department of Management’s community. Other interested colleagues can contact Marcello Maria Mariani (marcello.mariani@unibo.it).

In this talk, I synthetize and deconstruct my work of the last decade on different facets of the digitalization of work and life, i.e. work-life boundaries, social media, constant connectivity, surveillance imaginaries in workplaces and states, and intimate relationships with AI robots and agents. I then introduce the construct of “digital regulation” as a promising way to rethink individual and collective boundaries, control and agency in the digital era.

Short biography

Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Ph.D., is the Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation at Work and director of the International Network on Technology, Work and Family at the University of Quebec in Montreal (ESG-UQAM). Her research examines digital technologies and the boundaries between work and life across different national contexts. She has published Living with Digital Surveillance in China. Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance (Routledge, 2024) and co-authored over 80 chapters and articles in management, sociology, psychology, and information systems journals. She co-chairs the Technology, Work and Family research community of the Work and Family Researchers Network.