[ecrea] Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? Conference, London, 11 May 2018

I am delighted to announce the CfP for the Digital Economy conference to 
be hosted by the Centre for Digital Culture in London on 11 May 2018.


The purpose of the conference is to explore the consequences of digital 
technology for the economy and politicsand whether we are headingtowards 
an even more exploitative capitalism or towards a more just economic system.


Abstract below

Submit your abstract via Easychair 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalcapitalism201

Deadline: 7 March 2018


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*The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism?
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*King's College London, 11 May 2018*


This international conference aims at exploring the digital economy, 
understood as the new forms of production, work, consumption, 
distribution, and finance ushered in by the diffusion of digital 
technology. From the way we work, to the way we consume and pay for 
products and services, to the rise of new platforms for consumption and 
collaboration, the economic field is being revolutionised by digital 
media. Yet, the jury is still out on whether these changes point to an 
even more exploitative or rather towards an alternative and fairer 
economic model.

The conference will explore these processes of transformation of the 
economy and their relationship with culture and society focusing on a 
number of specific phenomena that have been the object of intense debate 
in recent years and questioning the suitability of future trends and 
innovations: automation and its positive and negative repercussions on 
working conditions; crypto-currencies and whether they are freeing us 
from state control or reproducing neoliberal dynamics; universal basic 
income as a possible new form of welfare befitting the transformation of 
the economy in a digital era; the rise of digital giants such as Google, 
Apple, Facebook and Amazon and the consequences of their oligopolistic 
position in the market; the new models of value formation connected to 
data mining and analytics; and many more.

We invite participants from various disciplines and streams of research 
including media studies, sociology, economics, consumer research, 
management, information and computer science. Together, we will address 
a set of recurring questions. How, for example, is digital technology 
restructuring the economy? Are crypto-currencies really alternative to 
established financial regimes or are they rather at the very forefront 
of new forms of financial speculation?   How do managerial practices 
evolve with the aid of digital resources? How do transformations in the 
mobile environment correlate to changes in the field of logistics? What 
are the features of the new forms of precarisation/casualisation of work 
that are described as “gig economy”? How does digital technology serve 
to enforce new forms of surveillance and measurement in the workplace? 
Can technological advancement promote alternative economic models as 
implied by references to terms such as “big data socialism” or “luxury 
communism”? Can digital media serve the construction of new forms of 
workers’ representation and trade-unionism?

The conference will comprise two plenary sessions and 4 breakout panels, 
and will host internationally acclaimed scholars as keynote speakers.

The conference will take place on Friday, 11 May 2018.

Abstract of 250 words are due by 7 March 2018.


Submission lin: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalcapitalism201

Abstracts should be 250 words maximum, and include the author(s) name 
and position, and a short title.

Acceptance notices will be given on 20 March 2018


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