[Sigiii-l] Fwd: [tripleC] Call: tripleC supports the 5th ICTs and Society Conference

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[tripleC] Call: tripleC supports the 5th ICTs and Society 
Conference
Date: 	Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:40:36 +0100
From: 	Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs at uti.at>



Dear tripleC Readers,

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique supports the
5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a
Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political
Economy and Critical Theory.

http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/24

Part of the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015: Information Society at the Crossroads:
Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information.
Vienna University of Technology.
Vienna, Austria
June 3-7, 2015.

The information society has come with the promise  to restore information as
a commons. The promise has not yet proven true. Instead, we face trends
towards the commercialisation and commoditisation of all information;
towards the totalisation of surveillance and the extension of the
battlefield to civil society through information warfare; towards
disinfotainment overflow; towards a collapse of the technological
civilisation itself.

The Vienna Summit is a multi-conference and is at the same time the 5th ICTs
and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads:
Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and
Critical Theory.

Given that the information society and the study of information face a world
of crisis today and are at a crossroads, also the future of the Internet and
social media are in question. The 5th ICTs and Society Conference therefore
wants to focus on the questions: What are the main challenges that the
Internet and social media are facing in capitalism today? What potentials
for an alternative, commonist Internet are there? What are existing
hindrances for such an Internet? What is the relationship of power
structures, protest movements, societal developments, struggles, radical
reforms, etc. to the Internet? How can critical political economy and
critical theory best study the Internet and social media today?

Presentations and submissions are organised in the form of 23 panel topics
(ICT&S1-ICT&S23; please indicate the panel identification number to which
you submit in your submisison).

Panel topics:
http://icts-and-society.net/events/5th-icts-and-society-conference/

Submissions of presentation abstracts are welcome and are possible from now
on until February 27 via
http://sciforum.net/conference/isis-summit-vienna-2015/icts

Best,
Christian Fuchs
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Editor of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
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