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Instructors: Angeliki Tzouganatou
Event type:
Intermediate seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Critical approaches
Credits:
5,0
Language of instruction:
English
Min. | Max. participants:
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Comments/contents:
The ´digital´ has been increasingly interwoven with our everyday life, reaching a peak under the circumstances of the global pandemic that we are currently experiencing. In such conditions, more and more people are critically reflecting on the reception, use and impact of digital media technologies.
During the last decades, the Internet inundated with platforms promised to democratize and open up access to knowledge. However, there are still many open questions on how open and accessible these platforms are in practice. With the rise of the platform economy , platform monopolies have formed, acting as monopolies of knowledge in the era of platform capitalism , bringing growing inequalities. In what is often called ‘the attention economy’, platforms such as social media networks, are monetizing users´ data –actions, preferences, emotions- , which creates a phenomenon that has inherently political implications as well . How are these new economic systems that have emerged through digital media advances shaping knowledge production, distribution and interpretation? Through this digital ecosystem, new economic forms are influencing knowledge production, by hindering or encouraging the openness of knowledge and it´s accessibility, and it is timely and crucial to study their ecosystems and business models .
The seminar will introduce and discuss critical perspectives and theoretical approaches to digital culture. Also, it will interrogate the emergence and impact of cognitive capitalism and the knowledge economy in the digital realm with a focus on digital cultural heritage practices. The final part of the seminar will work towards fairer practices for opening up knowledge in the digital economy from an ecological perspective.
Literature:
Publication Bibliography
Jordan, Tim (2020): The digital economy. Cambridge, Medford, MA: Polity.
Kenney, Martin; John Zysman (2016): The Rise of the Platform Economy. In Issues in Science and Technology 32 (no. 3), pp. 61–69. Available online at https://issues.org/the-rise-of-the-platform-economy/.
Moulier Boutang, Yann (2012): Cognitive capitalism. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Polity Press. Available online at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1214/2011277743-b.html.
Pollock, Rufus (2018): The open revolution. London: A/E/T Press.
Srnicek, Nick (2017): Platform capitalism. Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA: Polity (Theory redux). Available online at http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1444285.
van Dijck, José (2020): Governing digital societies: Private platforms, public values. In Computer Law & Security Review 36, p. 105377. DOI: 10.1016/j.clsr.2019.105377.
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