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WIAS Workshop: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism
WIAS Workshop: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism <br> <br>Wednesday 31 January 2018 <br>13:00-17:00 <br>UG04 <br>309 Regent Street <br>University of Westminster <br>London W1B 2HW <br> <br>Register: <br>http://wias.ac.uk/event/wias-workshop-academic-labour-digital-media-and-capit <br>alism/ <br> <br>This workshop marks the publication of the special issue “Academic Labour, <br>Digital Media and Capitalism” in tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & <br>Critique. We will hear presentations by experts who have contributed to the <br>issue: guest editor Thomas Allmer (University of Stirling), Karen Gregory <br>(University of Edinburgh) and Jamie Woodcock (LSE). <br> <br>Modern universities have always been embedded in capitalism in political, <br>economic and cultural terms. In 1971, at the culmination of the Vietnam <br>War, a young student pointed a question towards Noam Chomsky: “How can you, <br>with your very courageous attitude towards the war in Vietnam, survive in <br>an institution like MIT, which is known here as one of the great war <br>contractors and intellectual makers of this war?” Chomsky had to admit that <br>his workplace was a major organisation conducting war research, thereby <br>strengthening the political contradictions and inequalities in capitalist <br>societies. <br> <br>Today, universities are positioning themselves as active agents of global <br>capital, transforming urban spaces into venues for capital accumulation and <br>competing for international student populations for profit. Steep tuition <br>fees are paid for precarious futures. Increasingly, we see that the value <br>of academic labour is measured in capitalist terms and therefore subject to <br>new forms of control, surveillance and productivity measures. Situated in <br>this economic and political context, the new special issue of tripleC <br>(edited by Thomas Allmer and Ergin Bulut) is a collection of critical <br>contributions that examine universities, academic labour, digital media and <br>capitalism. <br> <br> <br>Workshop presentations: <br> <br>Anger in Academic Twitter: Sharing, Caring, and Getting Mad Online <br>Karen Gregory, University of Edinburgh <br> <br>Digital Labour in the University: Understanding the Transformations of <br>Academic Work in the UK <br>Jamie Woodcock, LSE <br> <br>Theorising and Analysing Academic Labour <br>Thomas Allmer, University of Stirling <br> <br>The workshop will be chaired by WIAS Director and tripleC co-editor <br>Christian Fuchs. WIAS invites everybody interested to attend this afternoon <br>of talks and discussions tackling the question of academic labour in the <br>age of digital capitalism. A coffee break is provided. <br> <br>Thomas Allmer is Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Stirling, <br>Scotland, UK, and a member of the Unified Theory of Information Research <br>Group, Austria. His publications include Towards a Critical Theory of <br>Surveillance in Informational Capitalism (Peter Lang, 2012) and Critical <br>Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification <br>(Routledge, 2015). For more information, see Thomas’ website. <br> <br>Karen Gregory is a Lecturer in Digital Sociology at the University of <br>Edinburgh, a digital sociologist and ethnographer. She researches the <br>relationship between work, technology, and emerging forms of labour, <br>exploring the intersection of work and labor, social media use, and <br>contemporary spirituality. She is the co-editor of the book Digital <br>Sociologies (Policy Press, 2017). <br> <br>Jamie Woodcock is a fellow at the LSE and author of Working The Phones. His <br>current research focuses on digital labour, the sociology of work, the gig <br>economy, resistance, and videogames. He has previously worked as a postdoc <br>on a research project about videogames, as well as another on the <br>crowdsourcing of citizen science. Jamie completed his PhD in sociology at <br>Goldsmiths, University of London and has held positions at Goldsmiths, <br>University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Queen Mary, NYU London, and <br>Cass Business School. <br> <br>Christian Fuchs is Professor at the University of Westminster. He is the <br>Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) and <br>Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS). His fields of expertise <br>are critical digital & social media studies, Internet & society, political <br>economy of media and communication, information society theory, social <br>theory and critical theory. He co-edits the open-access journal <br>triple:Communication, Capitalism & Critique with Marisol Sandoval. <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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