[ecrea] cfp - Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism // Critical Perspectives on Media, Culture and Society

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European Sociological Association (ESA) - Research Network 18: Sociology 
of Communications and Media Research in cooperation with:

ISCTE IUL - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

DINAMIA’CET - Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

ICUB - Institutul de Cercetări al Universității din București/Research 
Institute of University of Bucharest

*Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism*

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*Critical Perspectives on Media, Culture and Society*

ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2016

ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon

September 8-10, 2016

*Keynote Speakers*

Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, USA):

Communicative capitalism and class struggle

Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster, UK):

Karl Marx and communicative capitalism

*Important dates*

Abstract submission deadline: May, 15, 2016

Notification of selected abstracts: June, 10, 2016

Conference dates: September 8-10, 2016

The registration details and the online registration form: 
DINÂMIA’CET-IUL website (http://dinamiacet.iscte-iul.pt/). The link for 
the call for papers and other information about the conference: 
http://esarn18.tumblr.com/. Registration in the conference is: 
http://goo.gl/forms/MZNf4V4uoS. Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1578557759138243/

*Call for Papers*

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*Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism*

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*Critical Perspectives on Media, Culture and Society*

The proliferation of digital media in the 21st century has once again 
shown the deeply ambivalent and contradictory potentials of 
technological development.

Digital technologies have been celebrated for enabling new levels of 
democratic communication, participatory media production, community 
building and media activism. From Wikipedia, to open source programming, 
open access publishing, and peer-to-peer file sharing, we have witnessed 
the rise of a range of alternative forms of communication and media 
production that seemed to challenge established media business models 
and momentarily contested corporate power.

However, far from decreasing the dominance of corporate media, the 
expansion of digital culture, the Internet and social media further 
strengthened the power of multinational corporations over media culture 
and human communication. Despite the rhetoric of ‘social’ media, 
sharing, community and collaboration, the majority of the digital media 
sphere remains privately owned and controlled. In this corporate media 
system, multinational corporations maintain almost exclusive control 
over large parts of the media and communication technology, 
infrastructure and content.

Power in communicative capitalism is uneven and corporate control 
confronts us with a range of problems such as the systematic 
surveillance of Internet users, an increasingly commercialised online 
environment, devastating environmental impacts of the production and 
usage of media technologies and the global exploitation of digital 
labour. (Digital) media technologies are deeply entangled with the 
on-going economic, social, environmental and political crises.

Mobilising the empowering qualities of digital technologies and their 
potential to contribute to progressive social change requires an 
effective critique of corporate dominance, challenging power 
inequalities and strengthening radical alternatives.

This conference invites contributions that offer a critical analysis of 
corporate media culture and alternatives to it and thus contribute to 
rethinking power in communicative capitalism.

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*Abstract submission*

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*Submission deadline for abstracts: May, 15, 2016. *

An abstract should be sent to:

Dr. Romina Surugiu (University of Bucharest) (romina.surugiu /at/ fjsc.ro) 
<mailto:(romina.surugiu /at/ fjsc.ro)>,

Dr. Roy Panagiotopoulou (University of Athens) (rpanag /at/ media.uoa.gr) 
<mailto:(rpanag /at/ media.uoa.gr)>,

and Dr. Marisol Sandoval (City University London) 
(marisol.sandoval.1 /at/ city.ac.uk) <mailto:(marisol.sandoval.1 /at/ city.ac.uk)>

Abstracts should be sent as e-mail attachment (250-400 words abstract, 
title, author name(s), email address, institutional affiliations). 
Please insert the words “ESARN18 submission” in the subject.

*Conference fees *

80 Euros for ESA RN18 members / 100 Euros for non ESA RN18 members 
(conference dinner included)

60 Euros for ESA RN18 members / 80 Euros for non ESA RN18 members 
(without conference dinner)

25 Euros for students (Bachelor and Master) (without conference dinner) 
/ 45 Euros (conference dinner included)

You can become a member of ESA RN18 by joining the ESA and subscribing 
to the network. The network needs material support, so we encourage you 
to join or renew your membership. The network subscription fee is only 
10 Euros:

http://www.europeansociology.org/member/

Participation support for 4 PhD students and/or independent researchers 
will be available. This will not cover all costs, but part of them 
(accommodation and full conference fee). Preference will be given to 
presentations that suit the overall conference topic.

If you want to apply for participation support, please indicate this in 
your abstract submission by adding the sentence “I want to apply for 
participation support for PhD students and/or independent researchers”. 
The notifications about participation support will be sent out together 
with the notifications of acceptance or rejection of presentations. 
Additional information to prove your condition as PhD student or 
independent researcher will be requested.


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