[P2P-F] Fwd: Socio-financial Online Networks: A Public Lecture by Radhika Gajalla

Wed Jun 29 15:01:02 CEST 2011

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From: Prasad Krishna <prasad at cis-india.org>
Date: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:10 PM
Subject: Socio-financial Online Networks: A Public Lecture by Radhika
Gajalla
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

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Dear Michel Bauwens,

 Socio-financial Online Networks: Globalizing Micro-Credit through
Micro-transactional Networked Platforms – A Public Lecture by Radhika
Gajalla

The Centre for Internet and Society invites you to a public lecture by Prof.
Radhika Gajalla of Bowling Green State University. She will give a
lecture<http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=509&qid=64362>on
how microfinance online functions through the social networked online
space and the micro-transactional abilities of the interface together work
to enhance financialization of the globe.

In her lecture, she will focus on how this is made possible by the increased
digitalization of financial practices and the role micro practices play in
producing globalization. She will also lay emphasis on the fact that the
increased digitalization of finance also means that "financial literacy" is
also removed into the virtual space so that it is further away from
subaltern daily praxis while simultaneously staging subaltern presence in
cosmopolitan space through mobilizing structures of 'feeling' that Dr.
Shameem Black refers to as "sentimental sympathy".

Prof. Gajalla’s lecture will also touch upon issues like what online
socially networked micro-credit websites do visually and through the use of
multiple tools that are embedded in the discourse of interactivity is to
make it seem as if the subaltern is indeed participating in these networks.
Thus, the appearance of a subaltern presence is produced. In this production
of appearance of the subaltern presence in online contexts, just as in other
visual and static contexts, the complexity of socio-cultural and economic
intersections are not clearly revealed or accounted for. This reproduces
exotic notions of the authentic, mummified ‘other’ and offers the subaltern
image up for consumption. In turn, as Web 2.0 tools are set up to actually
reach the offline subaltern via non-profit or for profit representatives
that connect to these online networks, the subaltern in turn is tapped as a
consumer for capital.

Radhika Gajjala

Radhika Gajjala is a Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green
State University and Director of the American Culture Studies program. Her
book, "Cyber Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women" was
published in 2004. She has co-edited collections on "South Asian
Technospaces", "Global Media Culture and Identity" and "Webbing
Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action". She is
presently working on a forthcoming book, "Weavings of the Real and Virtual:
Cyberculture and the Subaltern" to be published in 2012 and is also working
on two interrelated projects — one on "Microfinance Online and Money in
Virtual Worlds and Social Media" in relation to the ITization and NGOization
of global socio-economic work and play environments and the other on "Coding
and Placement of Affect and Labour in Digital Diasporas".

Date: July 8, 2011

Time: 5.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

Venue: Centre for Internet and Society

Thanks and Regards,
Prasad Krishna
Publication Manager
Centre for Internet and Society
prasad at cis-india.org
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