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CfP Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and
Praxis
Special Issue of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism
& Critique (
http://www.triple-c.at)
Edited by Thomas Allmer, Sevda Can Arslan, and Christian Fuchs
(Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group, Paderborn
University)
https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/40
Submission deadline: Thursday, April 20, 2023
Please submit abstracts of 250-600 words by e-mailing the
completed submission form
http://triple-c.at/f/FirstName_FamilyName_tripleC_DigitalCapitalism.docx
to
thomas.allmer@triple-c.at
This special issue presents critical perspectives on digital
capitalism. Its contributions show how we can best critically
theorise digital capitalism and what forms of political praxis
exist and are needed in social struggles that stand in the context
of digital capitalism.
The issue will feature contributions by Jodi Dean, Christian
Fuchs, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, and Sabine Pfeiffer.
Facebook and Google exploit our digital labour. That's digital
capitalism. In late 2022 and early 2023, Google laid off 12,000
employees, Microsoft 10,000, Twitter more than 10,000, Amazon
18,000, and Facebook 11,000. That's digital capitalism. Algorithms
are used by corporations for socially sorting and discriminating
against customers who struggle to make ends meet and live in
deprived neighbourhoods. That's digital capitalism. Lots of
clickwork is conducted by poorly paid women in the Global South.
That's digital capitalism. Digital fascism, fake news, post-truth
culture and algorithmic politics circulate on capitalist and
state-capitalist Internet platforms. That's digital capitalism.
Information war and echo chambers polarise the digital public
sphere, making a new World War between imperialist powers that
compete at the global level for the control of territory, economic
power and political as well as ideological hegemony and the
nuclear annihilation of humankind and life on Earth more likely.
That's digital capitalism.
Recently, digital workers assembling iPhones protested against the
poor working conditions they faced at Foxconn in Zhengzhou during
the COVID-19 pandemic. That's a praxis that challenges digital
capitalism. In 2021, warehouse workers founded the Amazon Labor
Union. That's a praxis that challenges digital capitalism. The
non-profit federated Internet platform Mastodon has become a
viable digital alternative in the light of users' discontent with
Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. That's a praxis that challenges
digital capitalism. Internet experts and users have co-written the
Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto that
demands turning the Internet into a public good and advancing
digital democracy. That's a praxis that challenges digital
capitalism. While fascists spread post-truth on social media, the
progressive news hour Democracy Now! has since 1996 utilised the
non-commercial Internet, Public Service Media, as well as
community radio and television stations for broadcasting a
high-quality, independent news programme that reaches millions of
viewers and questions fake news. That's a praxis that challenges
digital capitalism.
Digital capitalism matters. Digital capitalism shapes our lives.
Digital capitalism needs to be better understood. We need critical
theories of digital capitalism. We need to better understand
praxes that challenge digital capitalism and aim at fostering
digital democracy and digital socialism. tripleC's special issue
on "Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and
Praxis" wants to contribute to establishing foundations of
critical theories and the philosophy of praxis in the light of
digital capitalism.
We invite contributions that engage with theoretical and
praxeological questions.
More information:
https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/40