(republished from the ESA RN18 site)
ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism
Critical Perspectives on Media, Culture and Society
ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon
September 8-10, 2016
European Sociological Association (ESA) – Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research in cooperation with:
ISCTE IUL – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia DINAMIA’CET – Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies
ICUB – Institutul de Cercetări al Universității din București/Research Institute of University of Bucharest
Keynote Speakers
Jodi Dean: Communicative capitalism and class struggle
Christian Fuchs: 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
Call for Papers
Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism. 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…
(see the ESA RN18 site for more information)
Please send your 250-500 words abstract to Romina Surugiu (University of Bucharest) [email protected], Roy Panagiotopoulou (University of Athens) [email protected], and Marisol Sandoval (City University London) [email protected]