[ecrea] 'The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Postcapitalism?'

Registration is now open for 'The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or 
Postcapitalism' conference,

Friday 11 May 2018 .

The conference will explore what kind of economic system digital 
technologies are producing in the era of Facebook, Amazon and Uber. 
Keynote speakers: Melissa Gregg, Nick Srnicek and Athina Karatzogianni. 
Panels on digital labour, digital consumption, digital economy in a 
global perspective and theories of digital capitalism.


Please find the conference programme below.


Registration costs £5 and can be completed here


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*The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Postcapitalism - 11 May 2018, 
Centre for Digital Culture, King's College London*


The conference explores 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 event will cover different issues 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.


*Conference programme*

Registration: 9.30-10.00
The Entrance Hall, King’s Building

Opening Keynote: 10:00-11:30
Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre
Melissa Gregg

Chaired by Alessandro Gandini

Time to work: labour in the digital era

Session one: 11:40-13:15

Safra – Digital Labour I
Chair: Wing-Fai Leung 23

Sidonie Naulin - Working for a Labour Platform and Leaving It: The 
Professional Trajectories of Private Chefs From LaBelle Assiette
Paola Tubaro  and Julian Posada - The elephant in the dining room: 
Digital platforms and the restaurant industry
Basak Ozan Ozparlak - Regulating industrial relations 2.0

Nash - Digital Economy in a Global Perspective
Chair: Elisa Oreglia

Jacqueline Hicks: The Asian Data Giants: Towards a New International 
Political Economy of Personal Data.
Samuel Lengen: China's Digital Economy and Its Place in Socialist History
Lisa Lin: The Rise of Tencent? A New Era of Digital Autonomy on Chinese 
Internet Television
Maitrayee Deka: The platformization of the informal economy in India
Kira Allmann - The Start-up Revolution: Venture Capital and 
Entrepreneurship in the Middle East after the Arab Spring

K2.40 - Digital Consumption
Chair: Zeena Feldman
Yaz Osho - Surveillance, censorship and selection: The critical 
consumption of digital technologies by women academics
Alex Wade - Ludoeconomics: Past, Present and Future of Pay-to-Play
Aleena Chia - The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming
Sophie Bishop - Vlogging
Tim Jordan - From Lols to Money: the role of sociality and culture in 
the digital economy

Lunch Break: 13:20-14:20

Session two: 14.30-16.30

Safra - Digital Labour II

Chair: Jennifer Pybus
George Maier - Reconceptualising the Sharing Economy for Class Analysis
Asher Rospigliosi - Graduate employability in the Digital Economy
Angela M Cirucci - Commoditizing Narrative: Digital Labor within Social 
Network Sites
Sarah Abdelnour and Sophie Bernard - The unlikely mobilisation of VTC 
drivers in France: A serious attempt at regulating platform companies?

Nash - Theories of digital capitalism

Adam Arvidsson - Capitalism and the Commons
Adam Hayes - The Socio-Technological Life of Bitcoin
Pip Thornton - A critique of linguistic capitalism (and an artistic 
intervention)
Andreas Wittel - Open Access Publishing as Über-Capitalism and as 
Post-Capitalism
Emiliana De Blasio and Donatella Selva - Digital economy and democracy: 
present and future challenges

K2.40 - Alternatives to the digital economy

Chair: Bernard Geoghegan

Guillaume Compain - Platform cooperativism: an alternative vision for 
the platform economy
Cecilia Manzo - New Forms of Local Development
Stuti Saxena - Investigating Open Data initiative in India for promoting 
citizen engagement
Fortune Nwaiwu - Digital for Development

Coffee break: 16:30-17:00

Closing Plenary: 17:00-18:30

Safra Lecture Theatre

Chair: Paolo Gerbaudo
Nick Srnicek and Athina Karatzogianni
What to do with the digital giants?
Reception: 18:30
Chapters (2nd floor King’s Building)


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