[ecrea] CfP Moral Economies of the Digital - SASE MiniConference 2016

*CfP Moral Economies of the Digital - SASE MiniConference 2016*

Mini-conference on *Moral Economies of the Digital*

Call for papers for mini-conference at the Society for Advancement of
Socio-Economics (SASE) 28^th  Annual Conference ‘Moral Economies,
Economic Moralities.’ June 24-26, 2016,  University of California,
Berkeley.

/Organizers: Dean Curran, Dave Elder-Vass, Elisa Oreglia, Nikos
Sotirakopoulos, and Janaki Srinivasan/

*DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 18, 2016
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Digital technologies have opened up new opportunities for novel forms of
economic practice and for the economic empowerment of individuals and
communities. But what happens when they encounter the mesh of
pre-existing social, cultural, and economic relations within which they
are deployed in practice? We invite papers that explore the moral
economies underpinning the use of digital technologies, and examine how
they encourage or constrain the use of technologies to renegotiate
existing power structures and economic practices. We are particularly
interested in the following themes:


1. How do existing moral economies shape digital economies?

- The moral economy of digital economic forms. To what extent do new
digital economic forms draw on consciously ethical practice and does
this open up awareness of different approaches to the economy? Do they
offer promising alternatives to mainstream market capitalism or are we
already witnessing a gradual subordination of digital gift practices to
the accumulation of capital?

- Explaining new digital economic forms. Between nakedly capitalistic
market-oriented models at one extreme, and the almost purely gift
economy model of Wikipedia at the other, there lies a continuum of
innovative and often hybridised forms of economic practices. Can
sociology, oriented to practices, explain how these economic forms
operate, how they develop, and how they hybridise, where economics,
oriented to markets, cannot?

- Gender and the moral economy of digital technologies. How do the moral
economies of the family, of the community, and of the workplace
influence notions of the ‘appropriate’ engagement of men and women with
digital technologies, and how does this vary between the Global North
and Global South?


2. How are moral economies reworked in the digital world?

- Encounters between the ‘new’ sharing economy and the moral economy of
the communities they work in. Are companies such as Uber and AirBnB a
new type of moral economy? Do they re-create space for community
enterprise or merely seek to evade forms of regulation that have long
protected consumers?

- Subaltern communities and the moral economy of digital technologies in
the Global South. What processes and circumstances allow digital
technologies to be incorporated successfully (or not) into the moral
economies of subaltern communities?

- The digital public sphere. In what way are the power relations and
social practices associated with digital economies affecting
contemporary public and private spheres?

- How do value propositions associated with the introduction of digital
technologies, such as disintermediation, or the death of distance, play
out in practice?


Abstracts of no longer than 1000 words should be submitted by January
18, 2016. If the abstract is accepted, a full paper will be required
by May 30, 2016. All submissions should be made via the SASE website
<https://sase.org/about-sase/conference-submission-guidelines_fr_25.html>.
Acceptance notifications will be sent by February 23, 2016.

The mini-conference CFP and further details on SASE 2016 are also
available online
<https://sase.org/2016---berkeley/mini-conferences_fr_232.html#MC10>.


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Elisa Oreglia
Lecturer and MA Convener, Global Digital Cultures
<https://www.soas.ac.uk/media-studies/ma-global-digital-cultures/>
Centre for Media Studies
SOAS University of London
https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff104142.php

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