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

[Steve Jones]

It is highly unlikely that it will be streamed as I do not believe facilities will be available at the conference hotel to make that happen. It is possible, however, that it might be recorded. I will send an update to the list if it is available, whether streamed or archived.

The talk will be in English.

Also, please note that the time of the talk is 10:45am - 11:50am Japan Standard Time (UTC +9).

I would like to note, too, that the sponsors of the pre-conference workshop at which the lecture will take place are the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University Department of Communication, the Communication and Social Robotics Lab at Western Michigan University's School of Communication, and the University of Kentucky College of Communication & Information, School of Information Science. 

I am, as always, grateful for the support of the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research, the International Communication Association, and the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Communication for making this lecture possible each year.

Thank you,

Steve

> On May 10, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
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> 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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