Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society
Towards Critical Theories of Social Media
The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference
Uppsala University, May 2nd-4th, 2012.
The collected abstracts of the plenary talks are now available:
http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/abstracts.pdf
Opening Plenary
Vincent Mosco (Queen’s University, Canada): Marx is Back, but Will
Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? On the Critical Study of Labour,
Media, and Communication Today
Graham Murdock (Loughborough University, UK): The Digital Lives of
Commodities: Consumption, Ideology and Exploitation Today
Featuring plenary talks by Andrew Feenberg, Catherine McKercher, Charles
Ess, Christian Christensen, Christian Fuchs, Gunilla Bradley, Mark
Andrejevic, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Peter Dahlgren, Tobias Olsson, Trebor
Scholz, Ursula Huws, Wolfgang Hofkirchner.
Abstract submission: open until February, 2012 29 (deadline)
ATTENTION: We recommend EARLY submission of abstracts way before the
deadline because the presentation slots are limited and abstracts will
be reviewed continuously starting in early January 2012. Once all
presentation slots are filled, the submission process will be closed.
Submission information:
http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/
http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/CallforAbstracts.pdf
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