[Air-L] 2016 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture: Leopoldina Fortunati

[Jack Qiu]

Not sure about streaming, but it should be in English and related to this
earlier article that I've been using many times:
http://www.ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/7-1fortunati.pdf

jlq

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:15 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> Two questions:
>
> 1) will it be streamed
>
> 2) will it be in English?
>
> j
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Sarina Chen <sarina.chen at uni.edu> wrote:
>
> > The 2016 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture features Leopoldina
> > Fortunati (University of Udine, Italy), at 12 pm, on June 14, 2016, in
> > Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, International Communication Association’s 66th
> > Annual Conference, in Fukuoka, Japan.
> >
> >
> >
> > The title of Fortunati’s lecture is “Feminism, labor and the
> mechanization
> > of everyday life.”  In the lecture, Fortunati will adopt a political
> > economy approach to examine the issue of machines diffusion in everyday
> > life, which connects machines with labor, value production and
> > struggles/resistance, especially by women, against the present
> organization
> > and division of labor.
> >
> >
> >
> > Fortunati will address the social and political role of machines in
> > society, as well as social robots, which can be considered in many ways
> the
> > next new media. Some social robots built in recent years in many
> > laboratories are ready to be launched on the market and more generally
> > placed in society. But the conceptual tools to handle this last mile to
> go
> > still need to be fully developed. When an object of such technological
> > complexity and with such rhetorical power, like robots are, is no longer
> > used only by niches of innovators or users (such as autistic) but is
> > proposed as a good of mass consumption, a series of problems, new themes
> > and strategies comes into the spotlight.
> >
> >
> >
> > This event is co-sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and
> Internet
> > Research (www.cccsir.com), University of Illinois, Chicago, and the
> > International Communication Association.  For more information about this
> > event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, sarina.chen at uni.edu.
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