Category: Season 7
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Kylie Jarrett: From Commodification to Assetisation
From Commodification to Assetisation: Reconciling the Delights and Disturbances of Digital Labour One of the central features of the contemporary digital labour environment, especially in the creative economy, is the incorporation of personality, affect, and interpersonal relationships into the workplace. Subjectivity itself has been “put to work”. This is certainly the case in the online creator…
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Nick Couldry: What Sort of World is Data Colonialism Creating?
In this talk, Nick Couldry will draw out some implications from his last two co-authored books: The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism, co-authored with Ulises Mejias (Stanford University Press, 2019) and The Mediated Construction of Reality co-authored with Andreas Hepp (Polity, 2016). What sort of social…
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Carolina Are: Pole Dancing Against the Algorithm
Dr. Carolina Are, (a.k.a. @ bloggeronpole) is a London-based Italian researcher, activist and blogger with a PhD in content moderation. An Innovation Fellow at Northumbria University’s Centre for Digital Citizens, Dr Are is currently leading a project at the intersection between online abuse and online censorship, which she has experience of both as an academic…