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Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:48 PM<br>Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: [iDC] DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES<br>To: <a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>, <a href="mailto:commoning@listen.jpberlin.de">commoning@listen.jpberlin.de</a><br>
<br><br><div dir="auto"><div>All the digits of the net unite! </div><div><br></div><div>Today we fight back!</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>Resent-From:</b> Geert Lovink <<a href="mailto:geert@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">geert@xs4all.nl</a>><br>
<b>From:</b> Trebor Scholz <<a href="mailto:scholzt@newschool.edu" target="_blank">scholzt@newschool.edu</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 11 februari 2014 22:21:22 CET<br><b>Resent-To:</b> Orsan Senalp <<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com" target="_blank">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:idc@mailman.thing.net" target="_blank">idc@mailman.thing.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:idc@mailman.thing.net" target="_blank">idc@mailman.thing.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[iDC] DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES</b><br>
<br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for Proposals</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES</div>
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<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">To be held at The New School, a university in New York City</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">NOVEMBER <a href="tel:14-16" value="+661416" target="_blank">14-16</a>, 2014</div>
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#dl14</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The third in The New School's Politics of Digital Culture Conference Series</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Sponsored by The New School and The Institute for Distributed Creativity</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Digital Labor: The Internet as Invisible Sweatshop, Picket Line, and Barricade brings together designers, labor organizers, theorists, social entrepreneurs, historians, legal scholars, independent researchers, cultural producers -- and perspectives from workers themselves -- to discuss emerging forms of mutual aid and solidarity.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Over the past decade, advancements in software development, digitization, an increase in computer processing power, faster and cheaper bandwidth and storage, and the introduction of a wide range of inexpensive, wireless-enabled computing devices and mobile phones, set the global stage for emerging forms of labor that help corporations to drive down labor costs and ward off the falling rate of profits.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Companies like CrowdFlower, oDesk, or <a href="http://Amazon.com" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>’s Mechanical Turk serve as much more than payment processors or interface providers; they shape the nature of the tasks that are performed. Work is organized against the worker. Recent books included The Internet as Playground and Factory (Scholz, 2013), Living Labor (Hoegsberg and Fisher) based on the exhibition Arbeitstid that took place in Oslo in 2013 and Cognitive Capitalism, Education, and Digital Labour (Peters, Bulut, et al, eds., Peter Lang, 2011). In 2012, the exhibition The Workers was curated by MASS MOCA in the United States. Christian Fuchs’ book Digital Labor and Karl Marx is forthcoming with Routledge.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Several events have been organized in the last few years to focus on these developments: Digital Labor: the Internet as Playground and Factory conference (The New School, New York City, 2009 <a href="http://digitallabor.org/" target="_blank">http://digitallabor.org</a>), Digital Labor: Workers, Authors, Citizens (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2009), Invisible Labor Colloquium (Washington University Law School, 2013), Towards Critical Theories of Social Media (Uppsala University, Sweden, 2012), Re:publica (Berlin, 2013), and the Chronicles of Work lecture series at Schlo� Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany, 2012/2013).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We would like to continue and elaborate on these discussions by raising the following questions:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">BROAD ISSUES:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Who and where are the workers and how do they understand their situation? How and where do they act in political terms?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">How can we analyze digital labor as a global phenomenon, pertaining to issues like underdevelopment and supply chains?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Which theories and concepts can help us to frame our thinking about the gridlock of digital work?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">How do waste, repair, and disposal play into the debate about labor?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Are there artistic works that respond to contemporary labor?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
GENDER, RACE, CLASS, ABILITY:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">How do gender, race, ability, and class play out in the diverse fields of digital labor?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">How are laboring capacities, also in the digital realm, sustained and maintained by maternal labor, or the labor of care workers, domestic workers?</div>
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</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alternatively, how do we conceptualize digital work that is underwaged and often coded as feminized?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What are the postcolonial tensions arising between digital workers in different locales?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ORGANIZING:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">How relevant are unions to the millions of crowdsourced workers?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">How can we resist the all-too-common “the labor movement is dead” narrative?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Which concrete projects might offer us a critical foundation upon which to build broader strategies for “digital solidarity”?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
What can be learned from the history of organized labor when it comes to crowdsourcing and lawsuits like Otey vs. CrowdFlower?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
What are possibilities and tensions that arise with projects aiming for solidarity among people in global labor systems?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
POLICY:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What are the reasons for withholding legislation that would allow for an enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the crowdsourcing industry?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Are there new forms of contracts or widened definitions of employment that would better address today’s work realities?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What policy proposals might be developed and put on the table now?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">FORMATS:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In addition to traditional conference structures, Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, and Barricades also aims to experiment with creative presentation formats and novel venues. We welcome applications for the following formats:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- experimental lectures (e.g., “theory tapas,” pecha kuchas, collaborative presentations, or formats not using spoken language)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- lectures or panels</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- keynote dialogues</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- design fiction workshops for those interested in design storytelling and envisioning alternative futures (3 hours)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- performance lectures in the places where some of this work is taking place: the living rooms of participants (20 minutes each)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">SUBMIT a 300-word abstract or a link to short video, and a one-page</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
curriculum vitae to <a href="mailto:digitallabor2014@gmail.com" target="_blank">digitallabor2014@gmail.com</a> by March 21, 2014. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please state clearly which format you are applying for and do emphasize how your proposal speaks to the questions above.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Confirmation of participation: March 31, 2014.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
If you have any logistical questions, please contact Alexis Rider <a href="mailto:digitallabor2014@gmail.com" target="_blank">digitallabor2014@gmail.com</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are planning an open access digital work notebook that documents and expands the discussion leading up to, during, and after this event. Contributions will emerge from the iDC mailing list. <a href="https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc" target="_blank">https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Conference editor: Trebor Scholz with (Advisory Board): Lilly Irani, Frank Pasquale, Sarah T. Roberts, Karen Gregory, Mckenzie Wark, and Winifred Poster. Producer: Alexis Rider.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Join the discussion:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc" target="_blank">https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc</a></div>
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