Digital labour: Workers, authors, citizens

Oct 16 2009 - 12:00am
Oct 18 2009 - 12:00am

Location

Faculty of Information and Media Studies, U of Western Ontario
North Campus Building
London N6A 5B7
Canada

Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens is a conference addressing the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in practice, politics, policy, culture, and theoretical enquiry. As workers, as authors, and as citizens, we are increasingly summoned and disciplined by new digital technologies that define the workplace and produce ever more complex regimes of surveillance and control. At the same time, new possibilities for agency and new spaces for collectivity are borne from these multiplying digital innovations. This conference aims to explore this social dialectic, with a specific focus on new forms of labour.

Union activists will assist academic specialists in assessing these and other crucial questions. Two panels will include representatives from the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC), and the Canadian Media Guild (CMG). Other guild confirmation is pending. Academic participants include:

For more information and to register visit: http://conferences.fims.uwo.ca/digitallabour/ 

Contact name: 
Mirela Parau
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