---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paolo Gerbaudo <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:07 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Politics of Big Data conference - King's College London - May 8th 2015 To: "<[email protected]>" < [email protected]> Dear All, I am pleased to announce the "Politics of Big Data" Conference on May 8th 2015 at King's College London. The conference aims at developing the scholarly and public debate about current data-driven power dynamics and possible democratic alternatives. You can book your (free) ticket via Eventbrite http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/politics-of-big-data-tickets-15741681794 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITICS OF BIG DATA CONFERENCE - King's College London - MAY 8TH 2015 "Big Data” is a contested term describing the increasing pervasiveness of data generation, gathering and mining in our society. The unprecedented market success Facebook, Google, and related digital, media, and marketing corporations is predicated on Big Data. Furthermore, as demonstrated by the Snowden revelations on the NSA and GCHQ, Big Data also provides new means for mass surveillance. Yet, this is not the whole story. Data is a site of political struggle. Beyond its value to state and capital, Big Data affords myriad opportunities for new forms of creative and political engagement. Open data initiatives, information leaks, and data-driven cultural projects are but early steps toward more democratic uses of the data we generate in our everyday lives. This conference will explore the contested and multifaceted nature of the politics of Big Data, covering both critiques of existing data-driven power dynamics as well as possible alternatives. Organisers: Mark Coté and Paolo Gerbaudo CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE Bernhard Rieder, Jennifer Gibson, Phoebe Moore, Jennifer Pybus, Stefania Milan, Btihaj Ajana, Dan Mercea, Nate Tcakz, Michael Dieter, Mercedes Bunz, Mark Coté and Paolo Gerbaudo PANELS - Big Data and Digital Politics - Big Data, the State and Surveillance - The Politics of the Quantified Self - Critical Engagements with Big Data Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalCultureKings <https://www.facebook.com/DigitalCultureKings> Digital Culture & Society at King's College London | Facebook Research and teaching in Digital Culture and Society at King's College London. MA Digital Culture... Read more... <https://www.facebook.com/DigitalCultureKings> Twitter: https://twitter.com/kingsdcs Digital Culture @KCL (@KingsDCS) | Twitter The latest Tweets from Digital Culture @KCL (@KingsDCS). #BA Digital Culture and #MA Digital Culture and Society at King's College London. Research on #socialmedia #hacking #surveillance #gaming #bigdata. London Read more... <https://twitter.com/kingsdcs> -- Paolo Gerbaudo Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, King's College London my blog: tweetsandthestreets.org twitter: @paologerbaudo UK mobile: 00447432383579 Egyptian mobile: 00201111052097 _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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/