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Welcome to the final seminar of the autumn semester, where the two new doctoral students in the Digital Work Futures Research Lab, Anastasiia Varetsa (Media and Communication Studies) and Thomas Alm (Interaction Design), will present their research plans.

Becoming a Professional Cyborg. Workplace Ethnographies of AI-infused Futures of Digital Creative Jobs 

Focusing on the everyday practices and routines, this research investigates the ongoing and often nonlinear processes through which digital and creative professionals make sense of AI-infused platforms in their daily work. It traces how these technologies reshape respective professions when intentionally enacted through human bodies, materially embedded in specific spatial and temporal contexts.

Anastasiia Varetsa is a PhD student in Media and Communication at Malmö University. With a background in ethnology, she explores the mundane, ordinary, and tangible dimensions of digital technology use.

Possible Futures: Practices, Experiences and Anticipations in an Environment of Digital Work Technologies within the Literary Publishing Landscape

This project examines how the ongoing digital transformation of the literary publishing scene is reshaping professionals’ everyday work. By shifting the focus from the book as an object to the labour, routines, and collaborations that sustain publishing, it highlights how futures are enacted in practice. Possible Futures is an interdisciplinary project bridging design studies and media technology research, drawing on case studies that provide a foundation for both practice-based and analytical explorations of collaborative design practices.

Thomas Alm is a PhD student in Interaction Design at Malmö University. With a background as a graphic designer and founder of a small press, he has been awarded the prestigious Svensk Bokkonst prize three times. He has also taught media courses at Malmö University, Lund University, and Stockholm University.

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