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[Commlist] Digital Delights and Disturbances - Fall '22 - Lecture series

Wed Oct 12 20:30:08 GMT 2022





**Digital Delights & Disturbances Fall ‘22**– Lecture series

Presented by: *JCU Media and Communications*speaker series


_All events will be on campus and livestreamed on YT_

Big data, artificial intelligences, algorithmic prediction: are these the solutions to the problems affecting our unstable societies or more sophisticated forms of social control and compliance to the powers that be? Is there any way out from the digital neoliberal realism within which we live? Are there ways to imagine data that are not extractive and abusive, A.I.s that are relational and not intrusive, or a domain of the digital that is not just limited to the ‘social’ of social media?

*20**^th **of October 2022 – 6.30pm CET*

*Pole dancing against the algorithm*

Carolina Are

In this talk, Carolina Are (aka @bloggeronpole) will discuss algorithmic bias against nudity, its relationship with the patriarchy and with whorephobia, sharing some insights from her latest studies looking at mass reporting of sex positive activists and sex workers. You will leave this talk with new ideas about what pole dancing can teach tech companies about content governance as well as with tips, gossip and concerns about Big Tech's power over our bodies.


*10**^th **of November 2022 – 6.30 pm CET*

*What sort of world is data colonialism creating?*

Nick Couldry


In this talk, Nick Couldry will draw out some implications from his last two co-authored books: /The Costs of Connection /(with Ulises Mejias, 2019) and /The Mediated Construction of Reality/(with Andreas Hepp, 2016). What sort of social world is being created in an age of what he and Ulises Mejias have called ‘data colonialism’? What does it mean to say that contemporary capitalism is marked not just by labor relations but also data relations? What is happening to social space and social order in an era of digital platforms? What are the implications of data collection for the very basis of the self and freedom?

*^**29**^th **of November 2022 – 6.30 pm CET*

*From Commodification to Assetisation: Reconciling the delights and disturbances of digital labour*

Kylie Jarrett


One of the central features of the contemporary digital labour environment, especially in the creative economy, is the incorporation of personality, affect, and interpersonal relationships into the workplace. Subjectivity itself has been “put to work”. This is certainly the case in the online creator industry which is associated with self-branding, self-promotion, and the conscious crafting of commercialisable identities. The work of influencers, OnlyFans creators, and TikTokers is thus often critiqued for being a process of commodification and consequently a site for the degradation of meaningful personhood. But is this really the case? Is there only disturbance and no delight in online creative labour? Drawing on ideas in my new book Digital Labour, this talk will question assumptions about the existence of commodity relations in digital work. It will propose instead the framework of “assetisation” to explain the commercialisation of subjectivity in online creator work, with implications for how we understand all kinds of digital labour both as economic phenomena but also as sites of worker agency.


*Please rsvp* at (ddd /at/ johncabot.edu) <mailto:(ddd /at/ johncabot.edu)>


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