[P2P-F] Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Digital Activism #Now Conference - London April 4 2014 digitalactivismnow.org

Wed Mar 26 21:35:48 CET 2014

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From: Paolo Gerbaudo <paolo.gerbaudo at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:35 AM
Subject: [Networkedlabour] Digital Activism #Now Conference - London April
4 2014 digitalactivismnow.org
To: networkedlabour at lists.contrast.org

Hi all networked labor comrades!

I am writing to inform you about a conference on Digital Activism we will
have in London in a few days.

The conference titled Digital Activism #Now will see a number of activists
and academics discuss the state and future of digital activism at the time
of social network sites. We have some very interesting speakers including
Gabriella Coleman and Guobin Yang. If you can make it, book a ticket on
Evenbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-activism-now-tickets-9047139237 and
check our website http://www.digitalactivismnow.org/ for materials about
the conference. Below I copied and paseted a description of the event.

Hope to see some of you there!

Best,

Paolo

Digital Activism #Now <http://www.digitalactivismnow.org>
Conference on Information Politics, Digital Culture & Global Protest
Movements

The so-called web 2.0 of social network sites was invented as a business
strategy to react to the first dot.com bust and, as revealed by the NSA
scandal, it has been heavily used by the State as a platform of global
surveillance. Yet, this space has also seen the rise of new powerful forms
of digital activism, as seen in the adoption of Facebook and Twitter as
means of mass mobilisation in the context of the Arab revolutions, the
Spanish indignados and of Occupy Wall Street.

These contradictions raise a number of burning questions for contemporary
digital activists. What are the real opportunities and threats for digital
activism at the time of social network sites and big data? How can protest
movements make use of the power of mass diffusion and collective
coordination afforded by social media without falling prey of state
monitoring or cultural banalisation? And is it better to invest energy in
creating alternative and non-commercial communication platforms or in
occupying the digital mainstream?

The "Digital Activism #Now" conference will explore emerging digital
protest practices at a time of increasing diffusion of social media and
progressive massification and commercialisation of the web. By gathering
leading international researchers and activists we will examine how digital
activists are making use of the affordances of the social web. Moreover, we
will debate the main issues of contention among contemporary digital
activists, faced with increasing possibilities of mass outreach but also
with new threats.

Among the issues covered in the conference will feature the role of social
network sites in contemporary protests, hacktivism at the time of Anonymous
and Lulzsec, activist use of digital culture, internet memes, and online
pranks, as means of digital propaganda and the politics of transparency and
secrecy in digital whistleblowing.

*Organisation*

The Digital Activism #Now conference is organised by Paolo Gerbaudo and Tim
Jordan, researchers in Digital Culture and Society at King's College London.

It is supported by the School of Arts and Humanities, the department of
Culture, Media and Creative Industries, the department of Digital
Humanities, the China Lau institute and the North American Institute, at
King's College London.

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Orsan <orsan1234 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> below might be interesting read for those in this list as well
> orsan
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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> *Resent-From:* nettime at kein.org
> *From:* John Hopkins <jhopkins at neoscenes.net>
> *Date:* 26 maart 2014 03:58:42 CET
> *Resent-To:* Nettime <nettime-l at kein.org>
> *To:* list nettime <nettime-l at kein.org>
> *Subject:* *<nettime> aclu: IoT*
>
> http://tinyurl.com/l5vcnp7 and
> http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175822/
>
> Finally somebody makes a public argument against the breathless Red
> Herring Utopian hype around IoT and its purported deep and beneficent
> innocence.
>
> Back in the 90s, there was the same level of hype around the Web in
> general, and we got the NSA. Imagine what IoT will bring us. The ACLU makes
> a powerful argument to where we *don't* want to end up, given the level of
> technological sophistication and data agglomeration we, under this
> globalized techno-social regime, are converging on...
>
> Cheers.
> jh
>
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> Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
> photographer, media artist,
> http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Paolo Gerbaudo
Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, King's College London
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