In recent years, social movements have gained momentum all around the world and the importance of communication and communication technologies has been increased. From now on, those in power consider the Internet not only an indispensable part of new accumulation strategies but also a real threat against their supremacy. Therefore, intensification of surveillance on the Internet has become obvious and regulations for Internet restrictions are often at the top of the agenda. In contrast, relatively free spaces on the Internet are expanding while communication and organization developed in these spaces become concrete in the squares of cities. LaborComm 2014 aims to produce knowledge related to these experiences and explore possibilities for the emancipation of labor and communication. In addition to this main theme, specific for this year, all papers concerning intersections of labor and communication are also welcomed according to fundamental objective of the organization.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
· Political economy of communication and new communication networks
· Labor and labor processes in contemporary social conditions
· New information and communication technologies in production
processes
· Working class organizations and communication networks
· New conceptualizations of society based on development of
communication networks (such as knowledge society, information society, network society, etc.) and their validity
· Consequences of the Gezi Resistance in Turkey and other social
movements all around the world
· The social subject of new social movements
· Using Marxists concepts for explaining social movements
· Potentials and obstacles on organization, cooperation and
resistance that are and can be created through new information and communication technologies
Important Dates:
31 March 2014: Deadline for abstract submission (max. 500 words) to info@laborcomm.org
4 April 2014: Notification of acceptance
25 April 2014: Deadline for full text submission to info@laborcomm.org
Organizing Committee: Ankara University, Faculty of Communication, Division of Informatics
For further information related to conference and Call for Papers, please visit www.laborcomm.org
LaborComm 2014
5. Uluslararasi Isçi ve Iletisim Konferansi
3-4 Mayis 2014, Ankara, Türkiye