China’s Economic Transformation in the New Media Era: From Economic
Miracle towards Financial Bubbles and Crisis?
Fri 3 February 2017
18:00 – 19:30 GMT
Univ of Westminster, London
Hosted and organised by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies
(WIAS), http://www.westminster.ac.uk/wias
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chinas-economic-transformation-in-the-new-media-era-tickets-31022409863
This event hosted by Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
explores China’s economic development model since 2008. How does Chinese
capitalism look like? What is the role of the Internet in it? How is it
to work in China's digital/Internet industry?
The event will explore these questions in the form of two talks by
experts on the Chinese economy – Dr Dic Lo and Dr Bingqing Xia. Dr Dic
Lo (SOAS University of London) will speak about the financialisation of
the Chinese economy and the role of productive investment. Dr Bingqing
Xia (research fellow at WIAS) will focus on the financialisation of
capital accumulation process in the Chinese Internet industry. WIAS
director Christian Fuchs will chair the event and discussion.
Other forthcoming WIAS events:
March 3: The Unreality of Reality TV: From "After Dark" towards Twitter,
Big Data, and Big Brother
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/the-unreality-of-reality-tv-from-after-dark-towards-twitter-big-data-and-big-brother
May 20-21: Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary
Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data
Capitalism. With talks by Toni Negri, Jodi Dean and others.
http://icts-and-society.net/events/digital-objects-digital-subjects-a-symposium-on-activism-research-critique-in-the-age-of-big-data-capitalism-the-6th-icts-society-conference/
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