<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Paolo Gerbaudo</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paolo.gerbaudo@gmail.com">paolo.gerbaudo@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:35 AM<br>Subject: [Networkedlabour] Digital Activism #Now Conference - London April 4 2014 <a href="http://digitalactivismnow.org">digitalactivismnow.org</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi all networked labor comrades!<br><br></div>I am writing to
inform you about a conference on Digital Activism we will have in London
in a few days. <br><br>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
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-activism-now-tickets-9047139237" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-activism-now-tickets-9047139237</a>
and check our website <a href="http://www.digitalactivismnow.org/" target="_blank">http://www.digitalactivismnow.org/</a> for materials
about the conference. Below I copied and paseted a description of the
event. <br><br></div>Hope to see some of you there!<br><br></div>Best, <br><br>Paolo<br><div><div><br><div><a href="http://www.digitalactivismnow.org" title="Digital Activism #Now" rel="home" target="_blank"><span>Digital Activism #Now</span></a></div>
<span>Conference on Information Politics, Digital Culture & Global Protest Movements</span><br><p>The so-called web 2.0 of social network sites was invented as a
business strategy to react to the first <a href="http://dot.com" target="_blank">dot.com</a> 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.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b>Organisation</b></p>
<p>The Digital Activism #Now conference is organised by Paolo Gerbaudo
and Tim Jordan, researchers in Digital Culture and Society at King’s
College London.</p>
<p>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.</p><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Orsan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com" target="_blank">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br>below might be interesting read for those in this list as well </div><div>
orsan</div>
<div><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>Resent-From:</b> <a href="mailto:nettime@kein.org" target="_blank">nettime@kein.org</a><br><b>From:</b> John Hopkins <<a href="mailto:jhopkins@neoscenes.net" target="_blank">jhopkins@neoscenes.net</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> 26 maart 2014 03:58:42 CET<br><b>Resent-To:</b> Nettime <<a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org" target="_blank">nettime-l@kein.org</a>><br><b>To:</b> list nettime <<a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org" target="_blank">nettime-l@kein.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b><nettime> aclu: IoT</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/l5vcnp7" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/l5vcnp7</a> and</span><br><span><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175822/" target="_blank">http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175822/</a></span><br>
<span></span><br><span>Finally
somebody makes a public argument against the breathless Red Herring
Utopian hype around IoT and its purported deep and beneficent innocence.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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...</span><br><span></span><br><span>Cheers.</span><br><span>jh</span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span><br>
<span>Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD</span><br><span>photographer, media artist,</span><br><span><a href="http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/" target="_blank">http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/</a></span><br><span>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Paolo Gerbaudo<br>Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, King's College London<br>my blog: <a href="http://tweetsandthestreets.org" target="_blank">tweetsandthestreets.org</a><br>
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