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by Michel Bauwens 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

hi kevin, thanks for printing out the first chapter, and then resend the link to me: http://horizontality.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/lEspoir-Horizontal-v0.9… -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a Corporate Buying Spree
by Michel Bauwens 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ellen Brown <ellenhbrown(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:17 AM Subject: Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a Corporate Buying Spree To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net Hi, here is my latest article, posted on Common Dreams -- Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a Corporate Buying Spree <http://wordpress.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1…> Best wishes, Ellen http://EllenBrown.com http://PublicBankingInstitute.org <http://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1a…> Unsubscribe <http://wordpress.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1a…> michel(a)p2pfoundation.net from this list. Update your profile <http://wordpress.us7.list-manage2.com/profile?u=8829ce026276832f7fc66a1a9&i…> -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd:
by Michel Bauwens 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jules peck <jules(a)flourishingenterprise.org> Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:02 AM Subject: To: jules peck <jules(a)flourishingenterprise.org> I thought you might be interested in my latest blog. Jules Peck Friday, 20 June 2014 http://www.compassonline.org.uk/the-road-from-serfdom-to-the-equal-sharing-… President Clinton was in town recently at an event with BoE Governor Mark Carney, Christine Lagarde, Paul Polman and Prince Charles amongst the many speakers. In the room were alleged to be the people who control a third of the world’s liquid assets – in short the 1%. They were here as part of the Inclusive Capitalism initiative which is looking to reform our economics to be fairer to people and planet. Inclusive Capitalism is just one of many other very similar initiatives including; *Sustainable Economy, Renewing Capitalism, Conscious Capitalism, Corporation 2020, Sustainable Capitalism, Responsible Capitalism, Clean Capitalism, The Responsible Economy, Capitalism as if the Planet Matters, Creative Capitalism, Just Capitalism, Spiritual Capital, Tomorrow’s Company, Breakthrough Capitalism,*Sir Richard Branson’s* B Team* and WEFs *New Social Contract.* Why this flurry of new efforts to reframe, recreate or reform capitalism? One reason is clearly that 2008 and its ongoing repercussions have shaken many shibboleths and challenged assumptions about the viability of anything like business-as-usual. As Nafeez Ahmed says <http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/28/inclusive-…> of the Inclusive Capitalism event “*central to the proceedings was an undercurrent of elite fear that the increasing disenfranchisement of the vast majority of the planetary population under decades of capitalist business as usual could well be its undoing*.” As co-chair of the Inclusive Capitalism taskforce, McKinsey managing directorDominic Barton <http://hbr.org/2011/03/capitalism-for-the-long-term/ar/1>, explained “… *there is growing concern that if the fundamental issues revealed in the crisis remain unaddressed and the system fails again, the social contract between the capitalist system and the citizenry may truly rupture, with unpredictable but severely damaging results*.” Notable members of the 1% are now openly speaking what would have been heretical thoughts not long ago. Legendary fund manager and head of GMO Jeremy Grantham has recently said <http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/12/jeremy-grantham-environme…>: “*Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. However, it is totally ill-equipped to deal with a small handful of issues. Unfortunately, they are the issues that are absolutely central to our long-term wellbeing and even survival*.” And Oystein Dahle, ex VP of Exxon Mobil said that communism collapsed: *“Because it didn’t allow prices to tell the economic truth. Capitalism will collapse because it doesn’t allow prices to show the ecological truth.”* Another reason for this flurry of activity is that the mainstream has noticed an explosion of alternative practices, such as those of the ‘collaborative economy’, that represent real threats to this business-as-usual mindset and hegemony. *The emergent new economy* Indeed, Kevin Keely, former executive editor of Wired has said “*How close to a non-capitalistic, open source peer production society can this movement take us? Closer than we thought*.” Visionary thinker Jeremy Rifkin talks of a “*collaborative commons eclipsing capitalism*” and Harvard Professor Jim Heskett says “*Now questions are again arising about whether we are about to experience a post-capitalist society centered around the creation and sharing of goods and services that have marginal costs approaching zero”. *Echoing this, the BBC’s Paul Mason predicts that newly networked and disenfranchised citizens will soon bring us into a ‘Post Capitalism’ world. Alongside this new ‘fractional’, ‘sharing’ economy are multitudes of other fast growing movements such as the Maker movement, the interest free money system, the Transition Towns movement, the Commoning, P2P and Commons movements and the global cooperative movement with 1bn members, 100m employees and worth $trillians. Professor Gar Alperovitz, a leading thinking and practitioner in the new economy, has recently said “*just below the surface of media attention literally thousands of grass roots institution-changing, wealth-democratizing efforts have been quietly developing.” *Along with people like Professors Erik Olin Wright, Steve Keen, John Bellamy Foster and David Schweickart, Alperovitz is just one of many academics and think-tanks actively working on the shape and functioning of a radically new form of economics. Wonderful and hopeful as all of this is, the problem with these hundreds of emerging schools of thought, practice, movements and initiatives is that few of them seem to be aware of each other, let alone collaborating and cross-fertilizing. No one seems to know how they do or don’t fit together, what kind of ecosystem they might create and how collectively they might have some answers to the reform of economics and politics. *Real Economy Lab* Frustrated by this lack of clarity and in response to all this activity, a group of us have set up an initiative called the Real Economy Lab <http://flourishingenterprise.org/real-economy-lab> which hopes to map all this activity, to understand how it all fits together, what gaps in thinking and experimenting there may be, and to provide a space where these many initiatives can collaborate and coalesce into a global movement for change. We want to help dial up the voice of the 99% into the global debate about the future of economics and commerce. Perhaps the 1% are right to suspect that their time in control might need to cede to a wider collaboration with new insurgent movements of the 99%. As Einstein said, “*Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis*.” Some of the questions and movement the Lab are examining and connecting with include: - The future of economics. What might a new system look like and how would it operate? A host of initiatives are asking this question including; The Smart CSO Lab, the Economy for the Common Good <http://gemeinwohl-oekonomie.org/en> initiative, David Korten’s New Economy Working Group <http://neweconomyworkinggroup.org/about-us>, Nef’s Great Transition and European New Economics Research and Policy Network, the Post Growth Institute <http://postgrowth.org/> and theirPost Growth Alliance <http://postgrowth.org/connect/post-growth-alliance>, Degrowth R&D EU <http://www.degrowth.org/description>, the MMM <https://mapping-berlin.titanpad.com/1> alternative economics mapping initiative, the Austrian Growth in Transition <http://www.growthintransition.eu/about-us/> dialogue, FEASTA, George Soros’s INET, Buen Vivir, the New Economy Coalition <http://neweconomy.net/new-economy-coalition>, the Synergia <http://auspace10.rssing.com/browser.php?indx=8904676&item=41>Mooc, the Tellus Great Transition Initiative, the Alliance for a Better Economy, the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. - The future of money. What might money look like and how might the investment sector operate in the future. A host of innovative new ideas and experiments pose real threats to the status quo and huge new opportunities. Just look at the rise and rise of peer-to-peer finance like Zopa, or the Positive money and debt free finance movements, the local currency and credit union movements. - The future of commerce. What might business look like in the future. Already the frictionless collaborative economy is threatening incumbents in many sectors. Growing shares of the global economy are becoming co-operatised and alternative socialised business forms are flourishing. - The future of ownership. What are the implications of a shift towards mass co-operative control of enterprise and of resources through things like Community Land Trusts, Mutual Home Ownership Societies and other ‘economic democracy’ initiatives. The assumption that things like the plc model are fit for the future seems more and more in doubt. Whole regions like the Basque country, Quebec and Emilia Romagna are now already more co-operatively controlled than privately owned. - The future of politics. The social shifts this new economy will bring about might unlock a new deliberative and participative budgeting and peer-to-peer politics. What might this mean for the future or demise of centralised party politics? Witness the anger and energy of Los Indignados and Occupy. And the explosive growth of Participative Democracy experiments in places like Porto Alegre and now emerging in the UK <http://www.participatorybudgeting.org.uk/> and elsewhere. And the growth of new political movements such as La Via Campeina, Spain’s Podemos and Denmark’s Alternative parties and the LIFE Party <http://www.uklife.org/economy>, ideas around new commons-based political coalitions <http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/04/2012416102253184145.html>, a Chamber of the Commons <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/proposed-next-steps-for-the-emerging-p2p-and-…> and citizen democracy initiatives like Borgerlyst, Citivox and Partido de la Red. In some ways the questions these movements and schools of thought are asking are far from new. For instance, JS Mill said that “*The social problem for the future we consider to be how to unite the greatest liberty of action with a common ownership in the raw material of the globe, and an equal participation of all in the benefits of combined labour*.” But what is new is that, for those of us tuned into these worlds, it feels like there is an insurgent quickening in the pace of innovation and change with many counter-cultural experiments reaching scale in what seems like the blink of an eye. *The future is already here* This might all sound like naval gazing academia. Interesting but at best a sideline to the real business. But despite the denial of the mainstream media, these movements are emerging as a real force to be reckoned with. We are living through revolutionary times with potentially radical changes already underway. As Harvard’s Professor David Korten puts it “*Imagine an economy in which life is valued more than money and power resides with ordinary people who care about one another, their community, and their natural environment. It is possible. It is happening. Millions of people are living it into being. Our common future hangs in the balance.”* But, as William Gibson said “*The future’s here, its jut not evenly distributed*.” We need far more collaboration if we are going to bring these things to scale. My hunch is that those who assume we can and will carry on with just a somewhat tweaked business-as-usual are mistaken. And the smarter people in the mainstream are starting to tune into this. Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman, for instance, is involved in a number of these interesting initiatives. *Where next?* Where all of this goes next is up to us. And whether what emerges from the maelstrom of change underway will be ‘capitalist’ or not is unclear. As Jim Stanford of www.economicsforeveryone.com says, “*Capitalism represents just one phase (and a relatively short phase so far) in the evolution of human activity. That long process of evolution is not going to suddenly stop. We haven’t arrived at some economic nirvana: a perfect system which can’t possibly be improved. I suspect we’ll end up with something quite different to capitalism: in which most production is no longer undertaken by private, profit seeking companies and most work is no longer undertaken solely in return for a money wage.”* Churchill wrote that “*the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings*”. Perhaps its time not just for yet another patch or reboot but an entirely new way of doing things in which we finally share out those blessings? Jules Peck Convenor, Real Economy Lab <http://flourishingenterprise.org/real-economy-lab> e: jules(a)flourishingenterprise.org m: 07920844802 w: www.flourishingenterprise.org b: www.citizenrenaissance.org t: @citizenjules 'Aspire not to have more but to be more' Archbishop Oscar Romero -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: How young a country do we want to live in ?
by Michel Bauwens 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:38 AM Subject: How young a country do we want to live in ? To: "econowmix(a)googlegroups.com" <econowmix(a)googlegroups.com>, " op-n-m(a)googlegroups.com" <op-n-m(a)googlegroups.com> Median age in "developed" countries is now above 40... 42 for Belgium, 44 for Japan, ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age Median age in 1968 in the US was below 28 for 4/5 of the US ? ( Now 37 for the US ? ) https://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-437.pdf -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Peak hierarchy
by Michel Bauwens 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Week (Assai) <dew(a)assai.com.au> Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:40 AM Subject: Peak hierarchy To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> QUOTE: Ray's keynote address focused on the disconnect between what science knows and what business does. For example, in order for people to remain productive, people need to be kept in a 'reward' state. This isn't necessarily about money or accolades, rather, it refers to how the brain is organised. At any given moment, we can be either calm and engaged, moving towards an experience, or we can feel threatened and want to move away from an experience – in other words, so stressed we feel pushed into a fight or flight state. The problem is that many workplaces are set up in such a way that people are kept uncertain, worried about status, with little autonomy. *A command-and-control hierarchy actually prevents people from being productive.* Science tells us that we can do only one thing at a time, and yet more and more demands are heaped on our heads. We are asked to do more with less support. Time is fractured by long meetings and constant interruptions. Multitasking is a myth and yet many businesses require their employees to switch tasks all day long. Not only does this tire the brain, leading to increasing ineffectiveness, but it can take up to 23 minutes to get back into the thinking space you were in before the interruption. *"It's a wonder we get anything done at all," Ray says.* http://neurocapability.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/disconnect-what-science-kno… -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Streaming worksop "“Alternative Money and Financial Institutions of the Commons: a first laboratory of discussion"
by Michel Bauwens 21 Jun '14

21 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: afuma <afuma(a)eco.unipv.it> Date: Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:25 AM Subject: Streaming worksop "“Alternative Money and Financial Institutions of the Commons: a first laboratory of discussion" To: Michel Bauwens <p2pfoundation1(a)gmail.com> To whom he is interested http://bambuser.com/channel/macaostream Andrea -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Video of the talk "The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Weibo"
by Michel Bauwens 21 Jun '14

21 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:16 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Video of the talk "The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Weibo" To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>, nettime-l(a)mail.kein.org very interesting talk by Fuchs, followed by exchange Christian Fuchs Talk at the COST Action "Dynamic of Virtual Work"'s Workshop "The Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age" The Open University of Israel June 16, 2014 https://vimeo.com/98719144 <https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F98719144&h=WAQHc…> _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Re: [P2P-F] steele profiled in guardian, getting some traction
by Michel Bauwens 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

already shared on fb (where you seem to be no longer on ?0 and twitter, this is also copied to our mailing list, I copy Kevin to see whether is quotable for a blog excerpt, I'm off here in chile until the 22nd with very little net-time Michel On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Robert Steele < robert.david.steele.vivas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I meant to send both of you this link. Anything you can do to share it > with others would be appreciated. > > > > http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-sourc… > -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Call ESA RN18: Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform, or Revolution? (Deadline July 1)
by Christian Fuchs 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Media and Communication in and after the Global Capitalist Crisis: Renewal, Reform or Revolution? European Sociological Association - Research Network 18 (Sociology of Communications and Media Research) 2014 Conference University of Bucharest, Romania October 17-18, 2014 Submission deadline: July 1, 2014 Submission per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at (Abstracts as txt or doc file including a title, contact email, affiliation, 250-500 word abstract) RN18 covers the conference fee and accomodation in Bucharest for 6 participants (3 nights each, single room). If you want to apply for such financial assistance (e.g. because you are a PhD student without travel funds or because your university does not provide assistance for conference attendance), then please indicate this circumstance in your submission. Please note that this support excludes travel costs. The world has experienced a global crisis of capitalism that started in 2008 and is continuing until now. It has been accompanied by a crisis of the state and a general crisis of legitimation of dominant ideologies such as neoliberalism. Responses to the crisis have been variegated and have included austerity measures of the state that have hit the weakest, an increased presence of progressive protests, revolutions and strikes that have made use of digital, social and traditional media in various ways, the rise of far-right movements and parties in many parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the Greek state’s closing down of public service broadcaster ERT and increased commercial pressure on public service broadcasting in general, new debates about how to strengthen public service media, increased socio-economic and class inequality in many parts of the world and at a global level, precarious forms of work in general and in the media and cultural industries in particular, the emergence of new media reform movements, an extension and intensification of the crisis of newspapers and the print media, an increasing shift of advertising budgets to targeted ads on the Internet and along with this development the rise of commercial “social media” platforms, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the existence of a global surveillance-industrial complex that operates a communications surveillance system called “Prism” that involves the NSA and media companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Skype, Apple and Paltalk; discussions about the power and freedom of the press in light of the Levenson inquiry, shifting geographies of the political and media landscape that have to do with the economic rise of countries such as China and India. Given this context, the main questions that ESA RN18’s 2014 conference asks and to which it invites contributions are: How has the crisis affected the media and communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future of media and communications are there? What suggestions for media reforms are there? How feasible are they? What kind of media policies and reforms do we need today? Which ones should be avoided? Are we in this context likely to experience a renewal of neoliberalism or something different? Plenary sessions: 1) Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): Wanted: Critical Visual Theories! 2) Special Session: Public Media and Alternative Journalism in Romania With Dr. Raluca Petre (‘Ovidius’ University Constanta, Romania): On the Distinction between State and Public Media: Re-Centering Public Options; Dr. Antonio Momoc (University of Bucharest, Romania): Alternative Media as Public Service Journalism; Costi Rogozanu (journalist and media activist, criticatac.ro) – Is Alternative Media an Alternative? ESA RN18 welcomes submissions of abstracts for contributions. Questions that can for example be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: * Media and capitalism: How have capitalism and the media changed in recent years? Are there perspectives beyond capitalism and capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media and capitalism today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? What is the role of Marx today for understanding crisis, change, capitalism, communication, and critique? * Media reform and media policy in times of crisis: How do the media need to be reformed and changed in order to contribute to the emergence of a good society? Which media reform movements are there and what are their goals? What have been policy ideas of how to overcome the crisis and deal with contemporary changes in relation to European media and communication industries? What can we learn from recent discussions about the media’s power and freedom, such as the Leveson inquiry? What are implications for media reforms? * Media and the public sphere: How should the concept of the public sphere best be conceived today and how does it relate to the media? How has the public sphere changed during the crisis in Europe and globally? What has been the relation between public and commercial broadcasting during and after the crisis? How have public service media changed, which threats and opportunities does it face? How can/should public service be renewed in the light of crisis, the Internet, and commercialisation? Can public service be extended from broadcasting to the online realm, digital and social media? What has been the role of public service media in Europe? How has this role transformed? * Media and activism: How can media scholars best cooperate with activists in order to contribute to a better media system and a better society? What are major trends in media activism today and how do activists use and confront the media and how do commercial, public and alternative media relate to contemporary social movements? What have been important experiences of media activists and media reform organisations in the past couple of years? What are the opportunities, risks, limits and possibilities of media activism today? For answering these questions, we also invite contributions and submissions by media activists, who want to talk about and share their experiences. * Media ownership: Who owns the media and ICTs? What are peculiar characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? What conflicts and contradictions are associated with it and how have they developed in times of crisis? How concentrated are the media and ICTs and how has this concentration changed since the start of the 2008 crisis? How has media and ICT ownership, convergence, de-convergence and concentration developed since the start of the 2008 crisis? What reforms of media and ICT ownership are needed in light of the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of intellectual property rights? * Media and crisis: What have been the main consequences of the crisis for media and communication in various parts of the world and Europe from a comparative perspective? What role have the media played in the construction of the crisis? How have the media conveyed the social and economic crises of recent years to citizens and what are the consequences of this flow of ideas and explanations? What role can they play in overcoming the crisis? What is the relationship of the media and class during and after the crisis? What role have ideologies (such as racism, right-wing extremism, fascism, neoliberalism, anti-Semitism, etc) played in the media during the crisis and what can we learn from it for reforming the media? How have audiences interpreted media contents that focus on austerity, crisis, neoliberalism, protests, revolutions, or media reforms? * The globalisation of the media and society: What are major trends in the globalisation of capitalism, society and the media? Given the globalisation of media and society, what are challenges for media and society today? What can we learn from non-Western media scholars and media cultures outside of Europe? Are concepts such as cultural/media imperialism, transnational cultural domination or the new imperialism feasible today and if so, in which ways? * Digital and social media: What is digital labour and how has class changed in the context of social and digital media? What is the connection of value creation, knowledge labour and digital labour? How do the global dimension and the global division of digital labour look like, especially in respect to China, India, Asia and Africa? How do new forms of exploitation and unremunerated labour (“free labour”, “crowdsourcing”) look like in the media sector (e.g. in the context of Internet platforms such as Facebook or Google)? What is the relationship of the commons and commodification on digital and social media? How do capital accumulation and targeted advertising work on social media and what are their implications for users and citizens? What are alternatives to capitalist digital and social media? How can alternative social and digital media best look like and be organized? What can in this context be the roles of the digital commons, civil society media and public service media? Which ideologies of the Internet and social media are there? How can we best understand the surveillance-industrial Internet complex operated by the NSA together with Internet corporations such as Google and Facebook and what are the implications of Edward Snowden’s revelations? How do power and political economy work in the context of platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, Weibo, LinkedIn, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, VK, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc? * Media and Critical Social Theory: What can we learn and use from critical sociology and the sociology of critique when studying the media? What do critique and critical theory mean in contemporary times? What are critical sociology and the sociology of critique and what are its roles for studying media and communication’s role in society? Which social theories do we need today for adequately understanding media & society in a critical way? What is the role of political economy and Marx’s theory for understanding media & society today? * Communication and (Post-)Crisis: How has the crisis affected the communication landscape in Europe and globally and what perspectives for the future are there? How do the working conditions in communication industries look like after the crisis? What are the challenges for communication industries in the near future in the context of the crisis and post-crisis? What is the role of post-crisis-communication industries in a globalised economy? Conference Fee For members of ESA RN18: 40 Euros For non-members of ESA RN18: 60 Euros

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Live from Int. whistleblowers conference Amsterdam
by Michel Bauwens 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:38 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Live from Int. whistleblowers conference Amsterdam To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org A bit late but interesting event taking place in Amsterdam, possible to watch some speeches via livestreaming link below. Orsan Click here <http://portal.livestreams.nu/iwc14> to watch the conference online http://portal.livestreams.nu/iwc14 On 18 June 2014, Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam will serve as the venue for the International Whistleblowers Conference 2014. During this conference, we will be combining a wide range of legal, technological and media perspectives to arrive at new approaches, strategies and concrete solutions to protect whistleblowers. Are the media able – and willing – to protect their sources in the information age? How do national laws relate to European legislation and international agreements, and can they effectively shield whistleblowers against reprisals? Which technological solutions and alternative channels are currently available? These and other questions will be examined by a host of experts and professionals during a day full of interesting workshops and debates. In the evening, we will zoom in on the most prominent whistleblowing case of recent years – Edward Snowden’s disclosures about global surveillance – and the consequences of his revelations at the national and international level. The International Whistleblowers Conference 2014 is organised by Network Democracy, Free Press Unlimited and the Netherlands Whistleblower Advice Centre, in partnership with the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN) and the Hermes Centre for Transparency and Human Rights. *Day programme: Keynotes, presentations and workshops* 10:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Opening keynote: Annie Machon (MI5 whistleblower) Presentation: Farid Tabarki. Workshops with Fabio Pietrosanti (GlobaLeaks), Diana Schemo (100Reporters), Dmytro Gnap (YanukovychLeaks), Andrea Crosta (WildLeaks), John Devitt (TI Ireland), Guido Strack (Whistleblower Network Germany), Pieter Omtzigt (CDA), Anna Myers (WIN), Axel Arnbak and many others. *Evening programme: One Year after Snowden – What have we learned?* 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Keynote:Hans-Martin Tillack (STERN magazine) With: Alison Glick (GAP), Yves Eudes (Le Monde), Garrett Robinson (SecureDrop) and many others. Presentation: Teun Gautier. Admission to both the day and evening programmes is free. For further information about the event or to register (anonymous), please visitwww.dezwijger.nl/whistleblowers <http://www.dezwijger.nl/whistleblowers> *Wednesday, 18 June 2014* Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 181 K 1019 HC Amsterdam _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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