Digital Labor, Precarization, and Emotional Work: Exploring the Body As a Site of Digital Transformation in the Global South

At the beginning of the 21st century it seems evident that the digitalisation of the world and the metamorphosis of work coexist with the emotionalisation of interactions in everyday life. The questions guiding this comucation are: What are the conditions of expansion of these ICT-related productive activities, particularly those linked to the processes of precarisation of labour in the territories of the Global South? How do the reconfigurations of space-time associated with the production chains of digital labour function with the "double indetermination of labour" (Smith, 2006)? In what sense is the body constituted as the territory and substrate of these digital transformations and, consequently, how are the vital energies necessary in the reinventions of productive activities related to "the digital" reconfigured? How can we rethink the processes of labour precarisation in relation to the "renewed" affections produced by the demands of the "digital conditions" of work? Precisely, this paper seeks to inscribe itself in this debate, summarising an analytical proposal for the discussion of the expansion of certain expressions of digital labour in the Global South, recovering some elements of a particular sociology of body-emotions (Scribano and Lisdero, 2019). To do so, we propose to analyse a set of quantitative and qualitative data produced in a research study situated in Argentina, between 2018 and 202