During her fieldwork, Marina delved into India's regional diversity, the bustling wedding season for beauty professionals, their motivations, skills, and social media usage. Dividing her time between Bangalore and Hyderabad in the South, a rural town in the North, and New Delhi.

@marinafrid experienced the vastness and cultural complexity of India with the support of our project's Rasmi Guha Ray, @SnehaHossain, new friends and research interlocutors who kindly welcomed her into their homes and workplaces, shared their stories, offered their time and help

🚴‍♀️🍔 In Bengaluru, Rashmi @Guha_Ray joined the gig economy as a food delivery partner! Part of her ethnographic fieldwork, she’s diving into the lives of gig workers. 📦📱 #Ethnography #GigEconomy #Bengaluru

New Report: Social Media as a Digital Labour Platform DeepLab reveals how social media is transforming Brazil’s labour market, with millions navigating unregulated digital economies. 📖 Read more: labdeep.com/reports-2/ @_pinheira @marinafrid @JanainaPenalva

Wagner Alves da Silva is now a certified Personal Cleaner and presented research at the National Meeting of Domestic Workers in Rio! Closing his Brazil chapter on a high note. Wagner is off to the Philippines for more impactful research with domestic workers. Obrigado, Brazil!

and how social media and other digital platforms integrate into Filipinos' everyday lives.

Commuting, visiting salons, and engaging with people, she learned more about the urban dynamics in the National Capital Region

and four research assistants from the Institute of Philippine Culture at Ateneo de Manila - Bee, Carl, Cole, and Fia.

During her fieldwork trip to the Philippines, @marinafrid roamed around Metro Manila interviewing beauty workers with the incredible support of our team's Miguel Paolo Rivera

“Moments of crisis open the door for deliberative democracy to thrive.” Read @NicoleCurato & Miguel Rivera's discussion on conspiracy, empathy & reimagining democracy in the Philippines. See takeaways on how community efforts counter disinformation labdeep.com/takeaways/