Dear Colleagues, Registration is now open for 'The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Postcapitalism' conference, Friday 11 May 2018 . The conference will explore what kind of economic system digital technologies are producing in the era of Facebook, Amazon and Uber. Keynote speakers: Melissa Gregg, Nick Srnicek and Athina Karatzogianni. Panels on digital labour, digital consumption, digital economy in a global perspective and theories of digital capitalism. Please find the conference programme below. Registration costs £5 and can be completed here Register now: https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-o... [http://www.centrefordigitalculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/digitaleconomy_conf-212x300.jpg]<http://www.centrefordigitalculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/digitaleconomy_conf.jpg> <https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/arts-humanities-research-institute/the-digital-economy-ubercapitalism-or-postcapitalism> The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Postcapitalism - 11 May 2018, Centre for Digital Culture, King's College London The conference explores the digital economy, understood as the new forms of production, work, consumption, distribution, and finance ushered in by the diffusion of digital technology. From the way we work, to the way we consume and pay for products and services, to the rise of new platforms for consumption and collaboration, the economic field is being revolutionised by digital media. Yet, the jury is still out on whether these changes point to an even more exploitative or rather towards an alternative and fairer economic model. The event will cover different issues have been the object of intense debate in recent years and questioning the suitability of future trends and innovations: automation and its positive and negative repercussions on working conditions; crypto-currencies and whether they are freeing us from state control or reproducing neoliberal dynamics; universal basic income as a possible new form of welfare befitting the transformation of the economy in a digital era; the rise of digital giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon and the consequences of their oligopolistic position in the market; the new models of value formation connected to data mining and analytics; and many more. Conference programme Registration: 9.30-10.00 The Entrance Hall, King’s Building Opening Keynote: 10:00-11:30 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre Melissa Gregg Chaired by Alessandro Gandini Time to work: labour in the digital era Session one: 11:40-13:15 Safra – Digital Labour I Chair: Wing-Fai Leung 23 Sidonie Naulin - Working for a Labour Platform and Leaving It: The Professional Trajectories of Private Chefs From LaBelle Assiette Paola Tubaro and Julian Posada - The elephant in the dining room: Digital platforms and the restaurant industry Basak Ozan Ozparlak - Regulating industrial relations 2.0 Nash - Digital Economy in a Global Perspective Chair: Elisa Oreglia Jacqueline Hicks: The Asian Data Giants: Towards a New International Political Economy of Personal Data. Samuel Lengen: China's Digital Economy and Its Place in Socialist History Lisa Lin: The Rise of Tencent? A New Era of Digital Autonomy on Chinese Internet Television Maitrayee Deka: The platformization of the informal economy in India Kira Allmann - The Start-up Revolution: Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship in the Middle East after the Arab Spring K2.40 - Digital Consumption Chair: Zeena Feldman Yaz Osho - Surveillance, censorship and selection: The critical consumption of digital technologies by women academics Alex Wade - Ludoeconomics: Past, Present and Future of Pay-to-Play Aleena Chia - The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming Sophie Bishop - Vlogging Tim Jordan - From Lols to Money: the role of sociality and culture in the digital economy Lunch Break: 13:20-14:20 Session two: 14.30-16.30 Safra - Digital Labour II Chair: Jennifer Pybus George Maier - Reconceptualising the Sharing Economy for Class Analysis Asher Rospigliosi - Graduate employability in the Digital Economy Angela M Cirucci - Commoditizing Narrative: Digital Labor within Social Network Sites Sarah Abdelnour and Sophie Bernard - The unlikely mobilisation of VTC drivers in France: A serious attempt at regulating platform companies? Nash - Theories of digital capitalism Adam Arvidsson - Capitalism and the Commons Adam Hayes - The Socio-Technological Life of Bitcoin Pip Thornton - A critique of linguistic capitalism (and an artistic intervention) Andreas Wittel - Open Access Publishing as Über-Capitalism and as Post-Capitalism Emiliana De Blasio and Donatella Selva - Digital economy and democracy: present and future challenges K2.40 - Alternatives to the digital economy Chair: Bernard Geoghegan Guillaume Compain - Platform cooperativism: an alternative vision for the platform economy Cecilia Manzo - New Forms of Local Development Stuti Saxena - Investigating Open Data initiative in India for promoting citizen engagement Fortune Nwaiwu - Digital for Development Coffee break: 16:30-17:00 Closing Plenary: 17:00-18:30 Safra Lecture Theatre Chair: Paolo Gerbaudo Nick Srnicek and Athina Karatzogianni What to do with the digital giants? Reception: 18:30 Chapters (2nd floor King’s Building) Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Digital Humanities Director of the Centre for Digital Culture King's College London, Room S3.10, Strand Building, 3rd Floor, Strand London WC2, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481576