[Commlist] CFP - Content Providers | TikTok: Work, Time, and Play in a Platform Economy

*_Content Providers | TikTok: Work, Time, and Play in a Platform Economy_*

*Content Providers* are looking for contributions to an 
interdisciplinary conference at the University of Edinburgh in June 2024 
that will analyse emerging digital visual culture(s) and aesthetics 
through critical platform analyses. We are particularly interested in 
analyses of TikTok, as it is a platform where many dynamic digital 
subcultures proliferate and circulate.

Over the last decade, the internet has been subsumed by a complex of 
privately owned online services that call themselves ‘platforms’ 
(Terranova). This has radically altered the coordinates of the internet, 
from a peer-to-peer communications infrastructure to an extractive 
arguably ‘neo-feudal’ system (Dean), where tech giants appear not 
dissimilar to Marx’s description of feudal lords: as ‘manager and master 
of the process of production and of the entire process of social life’. 
Terranova has described this system as the Corporate Platform Complex 
(CPC), a collection of platform monopolies which have deeply changed, 
and ultimately centralised, the so-called “internet”.

In light of these recent shifts, we are interested in rethinking a 
number of questions about digital culture that were initially explored 
in the early 2010s, with the rise of Web 2.0. We would like to invite 
contributors to explore contemporary understandings of the construction 
of the self and collective identity, digital labour and cultural 
production, political discourse online, digital affect, and more. We are 
particularly interested in contributions that analyse how these issues 
are reflected in the visual cultures and aesthetic experiences of the 
CPC, including, and in particular, TikTok.

*Content Providers* is a research collaboration between researchers Ian 
Rothwell (University of Edinburgh), Idil Galip (University of 
Amsterdam), Ingrid Luquet-Gad (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).

*Submission Procedure*


Please submit a proposal which includes the following: title, 300 word 
abstract, and a short 100 word biography for each author.

Proposals should be submitted to (contentproviders2024 /at/ gmail.com). The 
submission deadline is April 31, 2024.


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