The interest in the representation of work stems from Short on Work, an international competition for short videos on contemporary work, conceived and launched in 2012 by the Marco Biagi Foundation as part of the Doctoral Research Programme in “Labour, Development and Innovation”. The various editions of the competition have contributed to the creation of an international audiovisual archive capable of providing a heterogeneous and multifaceted representation of work. In this sense, the competition is based on a broader field of interest related to the forms of representation of the work, moving along different lines of research, in the wake of Visual Studies.

From this perspective the following themes are of:

•  Audiovisual representations as an object of research on the theme of work, capable of capturing important transformations in a new and plural way, particularly on some important themes (the relationship between work and gender, the relationship between work and migration, the relationship between work and skills).
•  Audiovisual representations as a research tool on the theme of work, extremely relevant both for the density they bring to field research and because they can constitute a particularly significant framework for interpreting reality within the contemporary society of images.
•  The heuristic and epistemological potential of video research.
•  Methods for cataloguing and exploiting audiovisual archives as cultural heritage.
•  Digital infrastructures that allow the use of international audiovisual archives at different levels, within the broader framework of Digital Humanities.

Referee

Prof. Tommaso Fabbri

Disciplinary areas

Organization and Human Resource Management, Labour Economics, Public Policy Evaluation, Political Economy, Visual Studies