<nettime> De-Platformisation (Online) - Thursday, February 25 @6pm

Hey nettimers

I wanna share with this amazing community the news that tomorrow we are kicking off with the new pandemic season of our lecture series Digital Delights and Disturbances (DDD)

First talk is about the 'fourth D': De-Platformisation

details are attached below

I'm also attaching the calendar of this SP21 pandemic edition, I'll send detailed info as we approach the events but you can save the date if interested

Queer Dada 30 March: Allison Grimaldi-Donahue, Natalia Borges Polesso, Raphael Khoury, Simon(e) Van Sarloos, Drew Pham

Hybrid Learning & Zoom Fatigue 15 April: Biella Coleman, Geert Lovink, Shannon Mattern

Digital Contagion 22 April: Jussi Parikka

hope to see you some of you..unfortunately, on Zoom only, for now, but hopefully soon in person

cheers, donatella

From a US President being banned from social media to the blocking of his supporters on AirBnB as well as the disappearance of the Parler app from the network; from the explosion of the lockdown revenues of Amazon to Google’s bio-surveillance of contagion; from the Uber/Lime bike/scooter-sharing colonisation of public grounds to the endless meetings on Zoom: the Covid outbreak is intensifying the platformisation of existence. Leading many spheres of contemporary life, data-intensive infrastructures have become the gatekeepers of social order, the boosters of economic production, the hosts, managers, and saviours of old and new labour practices. This panel aims at investigating the escalation of digital platforms, as well as the possibilities to detach from, reform, and challenge this ruling paradigm of our pandemic times.

Speakers:

Niels van Doorn (expert of digital platforms, professor at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher for the Platform Labor Research Project a project finalized to analyze how the newest platforms, such as Deliveroo and Uber influence the daily life of users),

Sarah Gainsforth (freelance journalist and researcher who also collaborated with L’Espresso),

Simone Robutti (Tech Workers Coalition Italia, an international group of tech industry workers, that focuses on organizing the labor of the tech industry)

De-Platformisation is part of the Digital Delights and Disturbances Lecture Series (pandemic edition) presented by the JCU Communications Department and will be virtually held on Zoom.

Send an email to sign up for the event: ddd@johncabot.edu

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