LaborComm 2010
International Labor and Communication Conference
May 3rd-4th 2010, Ankara, TURKEY
As a part of
The Fifth International Labor Film & Video Festival*
Labor communication academics and activists will
come together during the International Labor and
Communication Conference as a part of the Fifth
International Labor Film Festival on the 3rd and
4th of May 2010, in Ankara, Turkey.
Call for Papers
The global crisis of capitalism is taking a grim
toll on working people and the labor movement.
Is labor condemned to misery and poverty or can
it organize an effective response and go on the
offensive? Organized or not, when labor takes on
the role of an expression of dissent or social
resistance to a global crisis, it demands attention.
LaborComm 2010 aims to assess the impact of the
global economic crisis on working people and the
labor movement, and also to investigate the way
in which acts of resistance use new media. It
will strive to interrogate emerging models of
communication and to provoke innovative debates
about the mechanisms for empowering resistance
in the labor movement. LaborComm hopes to expose
both the roots and deadlocks of the resistance
with creative thinking and debate.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
· The political economy of communication
· Labor/worker issues in the media
· Theories of intellectual labor
· Labor processes in the
media/telecommunication/information industries
· New communication technology at workplaces
· The impact of the global crisis on the
working conditions of the ICT workers
· Comparing the cross-cultural experiences of ICT use
· The alternative uses of ICTs in labor communication
· Organizing labor in communication industries
· Strengthening the resistance and the use of ICTs
· Labor activism in the world
· Profiling the initiatives and
organizations using media technology and
responding to the crisis in radical and innovative ways
Time Schedule:
January 31
2010<mailto:(funda /at/ media.ankara.edu.tr)>: Deadline
to submit abstracts. Abstracts (max. 500 words)
should be sent to <mailto:(info /at/ laborcomm.org)>(info /at/ laborcomm.org)
February 15 2010: Results of the selection process.
April 15 2010: Presenters submit their completed
papers. Complete papers should be sent to
<mailto:(info /at/ laborcomm.org)>(info /at/ laborcomm.org)
The event will be streamed live and all sessions
will be available for viewing over the internet
Conference Secretary:
Funda Baþaran, Faculty of Communication, Ankara University
Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir, Faculty of Communication, Ankara University
The main Call For Papers and information about other conference
arrangements are on the Conference Website at
<http://www.laborcomm.org/>www.laborcomm.org
* The International Labor Film Fastival has
been held between May 1st and May 9th since
2006. The festival is organized by the Turkish
Medical Association and 7 labor unions from the
largest 3 labor confederations. It screens
labor films in the largest 15 cities in Turkey.
This year the festival will be held between
May1st and May 9th, 2010, where 50 films from 25
countries will be screened. Many producers from
several countries will participate in the
event. For more information please visit:
<http://festival.sendika.org/index.php?eylem=yazi&yazi_no=11>http://festival.sendika.org/index.php?eylem=yazi&yazi_no=11
