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SUMMARY:CALL FOR PAPERS for the V Forum of the International Sociological Association
DESCRIPTION:Call for papers. The deadline for submission is the 15th of October\, 2024\nThe INCA project team has organised a session to be held during the V Forum of the International Sociological Association\, to be celebrated in Rabat\, Morocco\, on 6-11 July 2025. \nThe session is organized by Adam Mrozowicki (University of Wroclaw) and Dora Fonseca (Colabor). The session description is as follows: \nInfrastructural Power of Gafam and Worker Power in the Platform Economy \nGAFAMs\, big tech platform companies such as Google (Alphabet)\, Amazon\, Facebook (Meta Platforms)\, Apple and Microsoft\, are pressuring national industrial relations systems everywhere. As infrastructural platforms\, these transnational companies provide essential infrastructures (both physical and digital)\, thus amassing great power. GAFAM operations are carried out by combining both direct investment and outsourcing and subcontracting GAFAM services. Outsourcing services allows GAFAM companies to indirectly influence industrial relations systems and mitigate the internal impact of the capital/labor conflict within their own business units by displacing these tensions to intermediary levels. It also allows GAFAM to circumvent national legal frameworks on labour standards\, in addition to the adoption of union-busting practices that disrespect the internationally recognized rights (by ILO) of freedom of association and collective bargaining. Labour conflicts have been on the rise in several GAFAMs’ sites\, bringing to the fore debates on the impacts of GAFAMs on national industrial relation systems\, and evince different strategies from industrial relations actors\, both traditional and new. Labour movements’ power resources and innovation capacity are being tested\, and different responses and outcomes might be expected according to the varieties of trade unionism at stake. By the same token\, industrial relation systems are expected to display distinctive levels of resilience in the face of GAFAMs challenges. \nWe invite papers which draw on social theory and industrial relations to discuss and illuminate the challenges posed by GAFAMs to national industrial relations systems all around the world. \nhttps://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session19950.html \nAbstract submission can be found here: \nhttps://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/cfp.cgi \nFAQ is located under this link: \nhttps://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts \nKey Points for Submission \nFor submitting your abstract\, you should prepare: \nTitle \nKeywords – Up to four custom keywords. \nAuthor(s) – Presenting author and any co-authors. There is a limit of seven (7) authors. \nAbstract – Abstract text may not exceed 300 words and can be entered in either English\, French or Spanish.  Please review the languages accepted in the session you want to submit for. \nDuties and Deadlines \nAbstracts Submission Opens: August 5\, 2024 \nAbstracts Submission Closes: October 15\, 2024 – No deadline extensions. \nNotification of Acceptance: December 5\, 2024 \nRules for all presenters \nAll abstracts must be submitted in English\, French or Spanish. Please review the languages accepted in the session you want to submit. \nThere is a limit of seven (7) authors per abstract. \nAuthors and co-authors cannot present and chair in the same session. Please note that the session organizer and chair do not need to be the same person.
URL:https://inca-project.eu/event/call-for-papers-for-the-v-forum-of-the-international-sociological-association/
LOCATION:Rabat\, Rabat\, Morocco
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SUMMARY:INCA's findings at the 7th Social Boundaries of Work International Conference
DESCRIPTION:On 16-18 October\, the 7th edition of the Social Boundaries of Work International Conference will be held in Wroclaw. It is co-organized by INCA researchers from the University of Wrocław. \nUnder the title ‘Social Boundaries of Work. Critical Labour Studies in the Times of a Polycrisis’\, the conference is dedicated to analysing the relationship between academia and the world of work in the context of overlapping and reinforcing socio-economic crises. \nThe COVID-19 pandemic was not only a profound crisis of public health\, but also of public services and social security systems\, which have been under pressure from neoliberal reforms for years. The escalation of armed conflicts in Europe as a result of Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine only exacerbated the refugee movements that had been taking place for years. The post-pandemic reality is also marked by a cost-of-living crisis that has deepened existing social inequalities and the impoverishment of many groups of workers. \nWithin the programme\, on Thursday 17\, our colleagues Adam Mrozowicki\, Olga Gitkiewicz and Szymon Pilch (University of Wroclaw) will present INCA findings.
URL:https://inca-project.eu/event/incas-findings-at-the-7th-social-boundaries-of-work-international-conference/
LOCATION:wroclaw\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, University of Wrocław.\, Wroclaw\, Poland
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SUMMARY:TALK: Cables\, Data and Labour.  How to Visualize Digital Capitalism.
DESCRIPTION:On 17 October\, there will be a talk entitled ‘Cables\, Data and Labour. How to Visualize Digital Capitalism’. Organised by several partners of the INCA project (UNIBO\, SUPSI\, and Fondazione IU Rusconi Ghigi)\, the coordinator Edoardo Mollona will be in charge of introducing the talk in which the speakers will be the 5 artists selected for the INCA exhibition to be produced during the 2025. \nDigital technologies are increasingly shaping the spaces\, temporalities and configurations in which we live together. Their use is pervasive and simultaneously invisible. Behind each touch on our smartphones\, there is an articulated and stratified overlapping of devices and services\, hardware and software like the cloud\, the AI\, data centres and fibre cables. They all contribute to shape a global dimension of connectivity which is not free from conflicts and tensions. \nArt and architecture have also been affected by this set of innovations we label as digital innovation. On the occasion of Big Tech and Counter-Technologies residency in Bologna\, 5 practitioners will meet the public to illustrate their perspective on how digital tech today can be approached through their artistic practice. With a critical focus on tech giants such as Google\, Amazon\, Meta\, Apple\, and Microsoft\, selected projects engage the materiality of techno-capitalism on micro\, meso to macro scales. Questions of labour\, logistics\, infrastructure and space thread each project together to pose the following: what is the spatiality of the digital? And how can we propose and visualise alternative imaginings? \nParticipants: \n\nIntro: Edoardo Mollona (University of Bologna)\nSpeakers: Michel Kessler\, Morgane Billuart\, Raúl Silva\, Cyrus Peñarroyo\, McClain Clutter\n\n 
URL:https://inca-project.eu/event/talk-cables-data-and-labour-how-to-visualize-digital-capitalism/
LOCATION:Sala Tassinari\, Palazzo D’Accursio\, Bologna\, Bologna\, Italy
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SUMMARY:INCA RESEARCH SEMINAR: Big Tech politics and infrastructures. Current developments and potential  alternatives.
DESCRIPTION:On 22 October\, organised by INCA partners UNIBO\, SUPSI\, and Fondazione IU Rusconi Ghigi\, a seminar entitled “Big Tech Politics and Infrastructures: Current Developments and Potential Alternatives” will be held in Bologna. \nIn this afternoon of studies\, some INCA researchers have invited Ana Valdivia and Vili Lehdonvirta to discuss with them the latest scientific developments on the project’s themes\, with a particular focus on the topic of infrastructures and Big Tech politics\, starting from the important works on the subject produced by the two scholars. \nFull program: \n\n14:30 Introduction to the event (Edoardo Mollona\, UNIBO)\n15:00 Infrastructures of the Digital\n\n       – Introduction: Mattia Frapporti (UNIBO)\n       – Talk by Ana Valdivia (Departmental Research Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI)\,\nGovernment & Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII)\n       – Discussant: Niccolò Cuppini (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern\nSwitzerland)\n\n\n  \n\n16:30 Coffee break\n17:00 The Politics of Big Tech\n\n       – Introduction: Maurilio Pirone (UNIBO)\n       – Talk by Vili Lehdonvirta (Professor of Technology Policy\, Aalto University\, Finland)\n       – Discussant: Sandro Mezzadra (UNIBO)
URL:https://inca-project.eu/event/inca-research-seminar-big-tech-politics-and-infrastructures-current-developments-and-potential-alternatives/
LOCATION:Aula seminari Santa Cristina (piazzetta G. Morandi 2)\, Bologna\, Italy
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