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DESCRIPTION:\n\nSimon Altmejd\, a doctoral student at ɬŔď·¬ in 
 the area of Strategy & Organization will be presenting his research propos
 al entitled:\n\nStruggling Over What’s Real: How Digital Representations R
 econfigure Organizational Control\n\nWednesday\, March 18\, 2026\, at 3:00
 pm\n\nStudent Committee Chair: Professor Samer Faraj\n\nPlease note that t
 he presentation will be conducted in person.\n\n\nABSTRACT\n\nIn the age o
 f intelligent technologies\, blue-collar workers such as machinists\, mate
 rial handlers\, and truck drivers increasingly work with digital represent
 ations that mediate their engagement with the physical world. This transfo
 rmation in how blue-collar workers relate to the physical world reconfigur
 es organizational control in important ways that remain only partially und
 erstood. As such\, this dissertation proposal builds on a three-year ethno
 graphy of digitization in the Canadian truck transportation industry. By i
 ntegrating sociological\, managerial\, and cybernetic lenses on the concep
 t of control and drawing from practice theorizing\, I develop a theory of 
 control adapted to the contemporary conditions of blue-collar workers char
 acterized by a “struggle over what’s real” between the embodied experience
  of work and the digitized renderings of physical labor. More specifically
 \, I show how representational practices—the set of activities through whi
 ch digital representations come to stand in for physical phenomena—shape o
 rganizational control in physically-intensive labor. In doing so\, this pr
 oposal advances scholarship on digitally mediated control in two ways. Fir
 st\, while existing studies have placed the emphasis predominantly on the 
 experience of workers\, my study illuminates how representational practice
 s involving both workers and managers are configured in ways that shape di
 stinct forms of control. Second\, while existing studies emphasize how dig
 itally mediated control leads to the de-skilling of workers and a loss of 
 expertise\, I provide insights into the forms of control that support the 
 complexification of blue-collar expertise in the age of intelligent techno
 logies.\n
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SUMMARY:PhD Research Proposal Presentation: Simon Altmejd
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