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SUMMARY:First INCA Scientific Event
DESCRIPTION:The GAFAM wield multifaceted power. They shape opinions\, organize and promote new forms of labour\, influence politics through lobbying activities\, and exert their influence throughout society. Furthermore\, they represent a hegemonic approach to business\, consolidating power over data\, algorithms\, and AI. They serve as both digital infrastructures supporting nearly all our online activities\, and material infrastructure through ownership of data centres\, cloud regions\, submarine fibre cables\, and warehouses spread across the country. As crucial players in our global landscape\, they warrant careful and thorough investigation and discussions. \nOn the 16th and 17th of May 2024\, in San Sebastian/Donostia will be held the first Scientific Meeting of the INCA project that will try to grasp the ecosystemic nature of these giants. The title is “Big Tech Emerging Power: Insights from the European Landscape” and will see a dozen researchers involved in the project exposing their fieldwork and theoretical analysis. Furtherly\, a critical dialogue will be performed in the evening of the first-day meeting: it will be chaired and introduced by Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna) and implemented by Nick Srnicek (King’s College London) and Manuela Bojadžijev (Humboldt University Berlin). \nAfter the first-year life of the INCA project\, the scientific conference aims to address and discuss the first results of the research. It will be organized in four sections diversified but integrated that will be focused on different aspects. The first section will focus on GAFAM’s political power. It will host speeches related to how platforms implement their political role\, the lobbying they do for specific political purposes and how their power should be regulated. The second section it will analyse how these platforms construct and propagate a hegemonic narrative about themselves\, contributing to a broader cultural transformation. The third one is titled Infrastructural labour power and will delve into the immense economic influence of these platforms\, especially in transforming industrial relations: perspective and examples from Italy\, Poland\, Portugal\, and Spain will be presented. Finally\, the morning of the second day will host the panel titled Platform alternatives and counterpowers\, tackling the resistance process that characterized the last decade. \nThe first INCA Scientific Meeting will serve the dual purpose of fostering further discussion among researchers who have recently begun collaborating and providing another opportunity to disseminate the initial results to a larger audience. What follows is the full Program of the Conference. See you there! \nProgram of the Conference \n16th May \n9.45 – 10.00 Welcome \nMorning \n10.00-11:30: Political Power \n\nRegulating platform power (Inge Graef\, University of Tilburg)\nHow GAFAM lobbied for the Digital Services Act (Edoardo Mollona\, University of Bologna)\nPlatform power: Technic\, Aesthetics\, Hegemony (Mattia Frapporti\, University of Bologna)\n\nChair: Edoardo Mollona\, University of Bologna \n11.30-11.45 Break \n11.45-13.00: Discourse & Cultural Power \nThe discourse on GAFAM: what people say when they talk about GAFAM (Martin Molder\, University of Tartu) \n\nPlatform Political Discourse: Hegemony & Counter-hegemony (Edoardo Mollona\, University of Bologna)\n\nChair: Mattia Frapporti\, University of Bologna \n14.30-16.00: Infrastructural Labour Power \nConvergence or path-dependency? The impact of platformisation on industrial relations models in the EU (Olga Gitkiewicz and Szymon Pilch\, University of Wroclaw) \n\n“Algocratic governance” and contemporary forms of labour relationships: the case of Spain’s ‘rider law’ (Ignacio Elpido Dominguez Ruiz and Fabiola Mancinelli\, University of Barcelona)\nInfrastructural power of Big Tech Labour (Franco Tomassoni COLABOR\, Lisbon)\n\n Chair: Maurilio Pirone\, University of Bologna \n16.30 – 18.00 Critical dialogue (learn more) \nChair and introduction: Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna)\, \nPanelist: Nick Srnicek (King’s College London) \n17th May \nMorning: Platform Alternatives and Counterpowers \n10:00-11:30 \n\nExploring Platform Alternatives: Shaping a Responsible Future (Alina Kontareva\, Alexander Von Humboldt\, HIIG)\nDesigning Alternatives (Chiara Faini and Marta Meloni\, Fondazione Innovazione Urbana\, Bologna)\nGAFAM Workers and their Discontent (Renato Miguel do Carmo\, COLABOR\, Lisbon)\n\nChair: Niccolò Cuppini\, SUPSI \n12:00-13:00: Final remarks and pathways towards the book \n 
URL:https://inca-project.eu/event/first-inca-scientific-event/
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SUMMARY:Critical dialogue by Nick Srnicek and Sandro Mezzadra
DESCRIPTION:As part of the first INCA Scientific Conference\, entitled  “Big Tech Emerging Power: Insights from the European Landscape”\, a critical dialogue will be celebrated in the evening of the first-day meeting: it will be chaired and introduced by Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna) and implemented by Nick Srnicek (London School of Economics and Political Science). \nThis event is part of the ‘INCA workshop series.’ \n\nNick Srnicek is a senior lecturer in Digital Economy in the Department of Digital Humanities\, King’s College London. Nick’s current interests are in the digital economy\, digital development\, anti-work politics\, and the development of Marxist economics. His most recent book\, Platform Capitalism\, sets out a framework for understanding the novelties of businesses like Google\, Amazon\, and Alibaba – as well as how digital platforms generate new tendencies within our economies. \nSandro Mezzadra teaches political theory at the University of Bologna and is an adjunct fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society of Western Sydney University. His recent work has centred on the relations between globalization\, migration and capitalism\, on contemporary capitalism as well as on postcolonial criticism. \nTo participate in the event\, please click on the following Zoom link
URL:https://inca-project.eu/event/critical-dialogue-by-nick-srnicek-and-sandro-mezzadra/
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SUMMARY:Data\, profiles and algorithms: how digital platforms influence reality
DESCRIPTION:The Wrocław Branch of the Polish Sociological Society and the Institute of Sociology of the University of Wrocław\, in cooperation with the Wrocław Institute of Culture\, has organised another meeting as part of the SocioPerception series (vol. 41). The meeting\, entitled “SocjoPercepcja vol. 41 | Dane\, profile i algorytmy: w jaki sposób platformy cyfrowe wpływają na rzeczywistość (Data\, profiles and algorithms: how digital platforms influence reality)”\, will take place on 22 May (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. at Klubokawiarnia Recepcja\, 46 Ruska Street in Wrocław (Poland). \nDigitisation permeates many aspects of everyday life\, influencing social and professional life. It creates conditions for the realisation of business models that have no spatial or temporal limits. This leads to ignoring workers’ rights\, employing various anti-union strategies and limiting opportunities to improve working conditions. This poses a serious challenge to the protection of individual and collective workers’ rights and employment relations. It also reveals the difficulties in exercising effective control over these companies by community countries and the European Union itself. \nDigital platforms and technology companies are challenging national and EU policy-makers and citizens on issues such as the practice of democracy\, widening social and economic inequalities\, and declining trust in public institutions. In particular\, GAFAM (Google\, Amazon\, Facebook\, Apple and Microsoft) / Big Tech and digital work platforms (Uber\, Bolt\, or TaskRabbit\, Freelancer\, among others)\, are able to shape opinions\, organise and manage work and influence the political debate. GAFAM and its growing capabilities have started a debate on how to deal with the transformations it has triggered. Currently\, the role of the institutions of liberal democracy and the market economy in the public and economic life of European societies seems to be limited due to the difficulties of regulating the corporate power of platforms. \nDuring the meeting\, we want to show how platforms use their power. We will also look at legal solutions for the regulation of corporate power and the impact of platforms on social life and public services in EU countries\, e.g. the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) and the use of algorithms and automated decision-making\, for example with regard to credit rating or profiling of unemployed people. Does the use of algorithms guarantee impartial assessments? Does it comply with the law and democratic values? Can an algorithm be considered a legal act? Why should citizens and citizens be able to control the ways in which algorithms and automated decision-making operate in different areas of life? All these questions are relevant because the development of platforms is closely linked to the exploitation of gaps and contradictions in national and EU legislation. \nGuest speakers: \nDr Joanna Mazur – DELab University of Warsaw analyst\, assistant professor at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw and associate at the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies\, author of the book ‘Algorithm as public information in European law’ (WUW\, 2021) \nSylwia Czubkowska – Technology journalist\, co-author of the Techstorie podcast on TokFM radio. Creator of SpidersWeb+ magazine and its head for the first three years. Previously worked for Gazeta Wyborcza\, DGP\, Dziennik\, Polska The Times and Przekrój weekly. Nominated many times for the most important journalism awards. \nModeration: \nOlga Gitkiewicz – sociologist\, reporter\, journalist\, student of the Doctoral College of Sociology at UWr and INCA partner
URL:https://inca-project.eu/event/data-profiles-and-algorithms-how-digital-platforms-influence-reality/
LOCATION:Klubokawiarnia Recepcja\, 46 Ruska Street\, Wrocław\, Poland
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