The new school presents: "digital labor: sweatshops, picket lines, barricades"November 14-16 in New York |
NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2014- The past decade is marked by the way new digital technologies have dramatically transformed the way many of us work. From November 14-16, Eugene Lang College’s Department of Culture & Media sheds light on the rise of the freelance culture and sharing economy by bringing together leading labor organizers and advocates, scholars, and designers to discuss the implications of technological innovation on social harmony, the re-composition of labor, and ultimately, what options workers have in securing their rights. Held at various locations across The New School’s Greenwich Village campus, “Digital Labor” features nearly 50 diverse panel discussions with media scholars, social entrepreneurs, artists, digital workers, legal scholars, designers, and historians on topics ranging from digital labor and sex work, to digital lessons from the Occupy movement, and implications of the new, 24/7 gig economy. The conference culminates in a first-ever interactive Hackathon meant to build upon and discover opportunities for worker intervention in the digital workplace. To view the full conference agenda and list of participants, visit http://digitallabor.org/. The conference is free and open to the public, but advance reservations are required online at http://digitallabor.org/register. Members of the media please RSVP to Kasia Broussalian at [email protected]. Audiences can follow the discussion on Twitter at https://twitter.com/idctweets and https://twitter.com/trebors, using the hashtag #DL14. Video interviews with participants are to be found at https://vimeo.com/home/myvideos/page:1/sort:date/format:video The Digital Labor conference is the third event in the conference series, “The Politics of Digital Media,” chaired by Trebor Scholz as an ongoing collaboration between scholars, students, and advocates across various disciplines and the New York community to address issues on the future of public media and digital culture. #DL14 is sponsored by Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and The New School for Social Research. In collaboration with The Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the 2014 Creative Time Summit, the conference is co-sponsored by The Worker Institute at the ILR School (Cornell University), The Division Of Interdisciplinary Studies At The Center For Worker Education (City College of New York City), The Economics Department at UMass Amherst, The School of Media Studies, and the program in Design + Technology at The New School, and The Yale Information Society Project (Yale University). Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is a seminar-style liberal arts college located in New York City that was established in 1985. Remaining faithful to its founding philosophy, Eugene Lang College grew out of a highly progressive freshman-year program developed at The New School in 1973. Lang offers intensive liberal arts study as well as a faculty committed to teaching undergraduates in an interdisciplinary context. Areas of study include religious studies, urban studies, social inquiry, interdisciplinary science, culture and media, literary studies, the arts, philosophy, psychology, economics, and environmental studies. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/lang. |
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