[Air-L] Emerging Platform Societies virtual seminar from 14th-16th September

[Rajorshi Ray]

Dear Internet researchers,

Hope you are doing well in these challenging times.

The *UNIBO-IIT Kanpur Digital Sociology International Research Group*
(https://site.unibo.it/cbdc/en)is

pleased to invite you to a virtual seminar on *Emerging Platform Societies*
from *September 14th to 16th, 2021*.

The seminar focuses on the contemporary socio-economic context, which is
highly dynamic and an expression of key digital and physical
transformations. Within this panorama, digital platforms play a dominant
role, imposing their power on economic and social processes. They also
influence personal and institutional communications, regulatory and
institutional structures, consumer behavior and, last but not the least,
have a strong impact on the payment system and the management of so-called
dual-entry markets. The current COVID-19 pandemic has also brought into
sharp relief both these rapidly unfolding transformations as well as
points of constraints.

The seminar includes talks by (*All events will start 11.00 am CET Time**)*:

September 14th:

Geert Lovink: Platforms, Networks and the Networked Psyche State of
the Art of Critical Internet Culture in Covid Times

Giovanni Boccia Artieri: Platform democracy: polarization, information
Platform democracy: polarization, information disorder and incivility
in a connected society

September 15th:

Anne Kaun: The platformisation of welfare provision: automated
decision making and

the digital welfare state.

Deen Freelon: Hashtag heroes vs. disinfo dystopia: The left, the right, and
the truth about social media activism

Lev Manovich: TBA

September 16th:

Michael Ryan: Emerging Platform Societies: The digital divide and pandemic
inequalities

Piergiorgio Degli Esposti: Platformisation and prosumption, into the hybrid
reality

Jillet Sarah Sam: Structures that makes work possible in emerging platform
societies: Family, Kinship and Region in India


The seminar will involve interdisciplinary experts from the academic world

in a series of virtual meetings to understand how society, economics, law,

politics and technological design shape and interact with the current
process.
*For further details on schedule and logistics, please refer to the
*https://site.unibo.it/cbdc/en/agenda

Regards
Rajorshi Ray
Research Scholar
Humanities and Social Sciences Department
IIT Kanpur.



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