[ecrea] CFP: The Fifth International Labor and Communication Conference 3-4 May 2014, Ankara-Turkey

LaborComm 2014
The Fifth International Labor and Communication Conference
3-4 May 2014, Ankara-Turkey

As a part of The Ninth International Labor Film & Video Festival

The Fifth International Labor and Communication Conference, intended to
bring together academics and activists working on labor and communication
issues, will be held on 3-4 May in Ankara-Turkey.

CALL FOR PAPERS
In recent years, social movements have gained momentum all around the
world and the importance of communication and communication technologies
has been increased. From now on, those in power consider the Internet not
only an indispensable part of new accumulation strategies but also a real
threat against their supremacy. Therefore, intensification of surveillance
on the Internet has become obvious and regulations for Internet
restrictions are often at the top of the agenda. In contrast, relatively
free spaces on the Internet are expanding while communication and
organization developed in these spaces become concrete in the squares of
cities. LaborComm 2014 aims to produce knowledge related to these
experiences and explore possibilities for the emancipation of labor and
communication. In addition to this main theme, specific for this year, all
papers concerning intersections of labor and communication are also
welcomed according to fundamental objective of the organization.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
•       Political economy of communication and new communication networks
•       Labor and labor processes in contemporary social conditions
•       New information and communication technologies in production 
processes
•       Working class organizations and communication networks
•       New conceptualizations of society based on development of 
communication
networks  (such as knowledge society, information society, network society,
etc.) and their validity
•       Consequences of the Gezi Resistance in Turkey and other social 
movements
all around the world
•       The social subject of new social movements
•       Using Marxists concepts for explaining social movements
•       Potentials and obstacles on organization, cooperation and resistance
that are and can be created through  new information and communication
technologies

Important Dates:
31 March 2014: Deadline for abstract submission (max. 500 words) to
(info /at/ laborcomm.org) <mailto:(info /at/ laborcomm.org)>
4 April 2014: Notification of acceptance
25 April 2014: Deadline for full text submission to (info /at/ laborcomm.org) 
<mailto:(info /at/ laborcomm.org)>

Organizing Committee: Ankara University, Faculty of Communication,
Division of Informatics
For further information related to conference and Call for Papers, please
visit www.laborcomm.org <http://www.laborcomm.org>