[Commlist] International Conference - Piracy and Beyond: Exploring 'Threats' in Media and Culture, Extended Deadline

This conference explores piracy as a figure navigating the conventions, 
norms and boundaries of legality in digital cultures and beyond. Offline 
and online piracies thrive on technological affordances yet they do so 
in opposition to corporate efforts - in music, film, publishing and 
academia - to label them as threatening for the economy and society.
In turn, pirate activities frequently become themselves subject to 
economic exploitation, co-optation and spectacurilzation by market 
forces. During the last decades, while the copyrights industry lobbies 
for tighter IP laws on a global scale, social media corporations find 
productive ways to capture counter-hegemonic networks through the 
exploitation of free or leisure time and users’ data.
Caught in the highly flexible and contingent context of digital 
networks, piracy allows for the probing of norms and boundaries, 
questioning the logics that define intellectual property laws, 
broadening the uses and perceptions of authored production and enabling 
new forms of technology usage surpassing corporate control. Moving 
beyond approaches that represent piracy in terms of illegality or supply 
and demand, we propose to explore pirate networked sociabilities working 
within and outside the fringes of market economy through the lens of 
institutional and discursive power and attempts to escape corporate control.

Keynote speakers:

Vincent Mosco, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Queen's University (Canada)
Joe Karaganis, vice-president American Assembly, Columbia University, 
editor of the report “Media Piracy in Emerging Economies” (US)
Patrick Burkart, professor, Texas A&M University (US)
Tristan Mattelart, professor, French Institute of Press, University of 
Paris II Pantheon-Assas (France)
Göran Bolin, professor Södertorn University (Sweden)
Aleksandra Elbakyan, creator of Sci-Hub

We look for abstracts that explore the threat as a broader phenomenon 
related to issues of political economy, otherness, marginality, 
resistance, community, assimilation, camouflaging, gender, class, 
recognition and representation. We seek to address the power relations 
in designations of the threat (who, why, when and by whom is someone 
categorized as a threat) as well as explore the conditions under which 
authorities and legal entities decide who has the right to exist and how.

  We welcome contributions in the following topics:

  * Legality, Illegality and Sharing Economies;
  * Political Economy of Othering;
  * Disruption and the New Economy;
  * Academic Publishing and Piracy;
  * Art, Music and Piracy;
  * Discourses on Disruption;
  * Ecosystem and Disruption;
  * Gender, Class, Sexual Others;
  * Viruses and Parasites in Media;
  * Human and Non-Human Worlds;

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*Submissions *should include the name(s) and institutional affiliations 
of the applicant(s), email address and abstracts no longer than 500 
words (including references) in English or in Russian.
Abstracts must be submitted *by 31st of May* at: (piracyandbeyond /at/ gmail.com)

Participants will be notified about acceptance by 30th of June, 2019.
For any further information, please contact us at: (piracyandbeyond /at/ gmail.com)

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