Dr. Stephanie Dimatulac Santos

Stephanie Dimatulac Santos is an interdisciplinary scholar who uses ethnography, digital humanities, and cultural analysis to study the flows of labour and capital between Southeast Asia and the Global North. She is an affiliate with Cambridge Digital Humanities, a lecturer in Cultural Studies at Chulalongkorn University, and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (CSWGS) at Rice University.

Dr. Santos’ book project, "Smart Labour, Smart Worker: Solidarity and Resistance in Digital Southeast Asia", examines how digital workers in Southeast Asia craft ways of life-making amid forms of emerging labour extraction enabled by internet and communications technologies (ICTs). She explores the intersections of artificial intelligence and socially reproductive labour, using frameworks from science and technology studies and Asian cultural studies to examine the feminized labours that sustain transnational digital economies. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

Research Disciplines:

• Gender Studies
• Southeast Asia Studies
• Cultural Studies

Research Keywords:

• Gender
• Platform Labor
• ASEAN
• Digital economy

Research countries:

• Philippines
• Thailand
• Indonesia
• ASEAN countries