Message posted on 14/03/2019
CfA: Digitalized Work and Social Emancipation
Dear Colleagues, <br>we're organizing a panel at this year's Swiss Sociological Association in <br>September on the topic "Digitalized Work and Social Emancipation". If you're <br>interested in the subject, we would be happy to receive your abstract at <br>simon.schaupp@unibas.ch or <br>philipp.frey@partner.kit.edu by <br>20.04.2019 (maximum of 2000 characters, including spaces). <br>All the best, <br>Simon Schaupp and Philipp Frey <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS <br> <br>The future of work in current discussions is most intrinsically connected to <br>questions related to the power effects of digitalization. The current wave of <br>digitalization does not only bring about significant transformations in the <br>organization of work, but raises critical issues of social justice in highly <br>technologized societies at large. In this workshop, we invite contributions <br>with an analytical focus on the connections between digitalized industries and <br>social emancipation. <br> <br>The idea of social emancipation through new technologies has been a recurring <br>theme in STS scholarship. Networked, digital fabrication technologies like 3D <br>printing were hailed as an empowerment of grassroots level "produsers" and <br>open source communities. Networked communication technologies, coupled with <br>the ubiquity of private computers were seen as a material precondition for <br>flat hierarchies. More recently, advances in medical technology sparked hopes <br>of body modification as enabling free development of the subjects beyond the <br>restrictions of dominant body norms. <br> <br>This workshop aims to critically examine this emancipatory potential of the <br>digital transformation. We welcome papers that situate the digitalization of <br>work in larger social contexts. <br> <br>The following questions could be posed, among others: <br> <br>If most digital technology is produced in social contexts of domination, is <br>this domination inscribed into them, or can they be used for emancipatory <br>purposes as well? What does the increasing inclusion of computer-enabled <br>organizational decentralization (e.g. Open Innovation) into capital <br>accumulation mean for alternative forms of organizing? What is the reality of <br>the widespread automation of tasks across employment sectors? How could the <br>redistribution of automation's productivity gains be utilized to reshape <br>employment regimes and work organization in the future? How do digitally <br>enabled forms of mass customization affect body representation in the <br>production of medical- and consumer goods? Can such technologies be <br>appropriated by user communities to upend the ways such goods are produced? <br> <br>We base these questions on a broad understanding of emancipation as the <br>elimination or reduction of domination on different levels, such as gender, <br>class, ethnicity or (dis)ability. Analysis at the intersection of these <br>categories are especially welcome. We welcome empirical, historical, as well <br>as theoretical analysis. <br> <br> <br>https://www.unine.ch/socio/home/congress-ssasgssss-2019/call-for-abstracts.ht <br>ml <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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