[Air-L] Conference: Log Out! 2: Workers Confronting Digital Capitalism - March 13, 2020

[Yujie Julie Chen]

Sorry for cross-listing. I am happy to announce that Log Out! 2: Workers
Confronting Digital Capitalism, an international conference, will take
place in downtown Toronto. Please RSVP!

Friday March 13, 2020

International Conference

9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (140 George Street)

Digital capitalism is a terrain of social conflict. Work is increasingly
shaped by the technologies used to reorganize the labour process and devise
new forms of value generation. Technologies that allow to decompose or
outsource jobs make workers increasingly replaceable. New surveillance
techniques are used to control and discipline workers, and despotism is on
the rise. But a long cycle of struggles has shown that workers don’t
passively obey the rules of the digital workplace.



Look no further than drivers in the ride-hailing industry in the streets of
the world, domestic workers and freelancers in North America and Asia,
food-delivery couriers in Europe and Canada, warehouse workers in urban
peripheries across the globe, software engineers from China to California,
or game designers and tech workers in cities across North America. The
ubiquitous penetration of digital technologies in warehouses, workshops,
offices, and app-based workplaces is met with novel workarounds and
struggles. New forms of class composition boost solidarity and organizing
in the digitally-mediated work environment. Workers log out from and
subvert digital labour.



Building on the success of the 2018 edition
<https://www.mcluhancentre.ca/logout>, Log Out! 2 brings together
researchers and workers to discuss how digital capitalism can be confronted
and subverted.



SPEAKERS

Sareeta Amrute [University of Washington and Data & Society]

Sreyan Chatterjee [Vidhi Center for Legal Policy, New Delhi]

Nicole Cohen [University of Toronto]

Niels van Doorn [University of Amsterdam]

Silvia Masiero [Loughborough University]

Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya [University of California Berkeley]

Rida Qadri [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]

Greig de Peuter [Wilfrid Laurier University]

Winifred Poster [Washington University St. Louis]

Jack Qiu [Chinese University of Hong Kong]

Tanay Gandhi [Center for Internet and Society, New Delhi]

Noopur Raval [University of California Irvine]

Michael Siciliano [Queen’s University]

Jamie Woodcock [Open University]



WORKER ORGANIZATIONS ROUNDTABLE

Foodsters United

Vice Union

Tech Worker Coalition

Game Workers Unite!



Attendance is free. Please confirm your presence on EVENTBRITE
<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/91162915735>

A detailed program will be published shortly.

The conference is organized by the McLuhan Centre for Culture and
Technology with support from the Institute of Communication, Culture,
Information and Technology
<https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/institute-communication-culture-information-and-technology>



Organizing committee: Julie Chen, Nicole Cohen, Alessandro Delfanti, Greig
de Peuter, Julian Posada, Brendan Smith



-- 
- julie
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Yujie "Julie" Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology (ICCIT)
(Mississauga)
Faculty of Information (St. George)

*Latest Publications: *

-           “Temporal Arbitrage, the Fragmented Rush, and Opportunistic
Behaviors: The labor politics of time in the platform economy
<https://www.academia.edu/41110279/Temporal_Arbitrage_the_Fragmented_Rush_and_Opportunistic_Behaviors_The_labor_politics_of_time_in_the_platform_economy>,”
*New Media & Society *(forthcoming, 2020)

-          "Digital Utility: Datafication, Regulation, Labor, and DiDi’s
Platformization of Urban Transport in China
<https://www.academia.edu/38968638/Digital_Utility_Datafication_Regulation_Labor_and_DiDi_s_Platformization_of_Urban_Transport_in_China?source=swp_share>
," *Chinese Journal of Communication *(2019)