Keynote SpeakersJodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, USA):

Communicative capitalism and class struggle

Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster, UK): Karl Marx and communicative capitalism

European Sociological Association (ESA)Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Researchin cooperation with:

ISCTE IUL - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

DINAMIA'CET - Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) is a research university with a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach, mainly in the areas of Sociology and Public Policy, Social Sciences and Humanities, Management and Economics, Information and Communication Technologies and Architecture, established in 1972. The University has approximately 9 000 students enrolled in undergraduate (52%) and postgraduate (48%) programs, 450 teachers, 220 non-teaching staff and more than 500 researchers. The Institution has a strong link to and impact on science, economy and society and has established national and international cooperation with a large number of universities and research institutes as well as public, private and third sector organizations and has been participating in several international European funded projects, research programs and networks of scientific cooperation.

ICUB - Institutul de Cercetări al Universității din București/Research Institute of University of Bucharest

ICUB - Institutul de Cercetări al Universității din București is the main research institute of the University of Bucharest. Its aims are: to promote excellence in social research by means of intensified knowledge transfer and dissemination; to act as a research hub that ensures specialized consultancy in accesing research grants and funding through institutional partnerships; to become an active agent in designing and upgrading the research strategy of the University of Bucharest; to enhance both national and international research projects by means of organizing scientif ic events such as workshops, conferences and seminars. http://icub.unibuc.ro/

DINÂMIA'CET-IUL- Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies (D'C) is an ISCTE-IUL research unit, evaluated as Very Good. D'C conducts research and graduate teaching (3 PhD Programmes, 10 Master Programmes) on current social, economic and territorial issues from a multi-disciplinary and comparative perspective, in national, European and broader contexts. DINÂMIA'CET-IUL is a medium sized research centre, that currently involves over 100 researchers, including around 50 PhDs, with diverse disciplinary backgrounds (architecture, sociology, economics, law, anthropology, geography, quantitative methods and management). As its name indicates, DINÂMIA'CET focuses on the study of social, economic and territorial change with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the contexts, processes, actors and consequences of change.

The proliferation of digital media in the 21st century has once again shown the deeply ambivalent and contradictory potentials of technological development.

Digital technologies have been celebrated for enabling new levels of democratic communication, participatory media production, community building and media activism. From Wikipedia, to open source programming, open access publishing, and peer-to-peer file sharing, we have witnessed the rise of a range of alternative forms of communication and media production that seemed to challenge established media business models and momentarily contested corporate power.

However, far from decreasing the dominance of corporate media, the expansion of digital culture, the Internet and social media further strengthened the power of multinational corporations over media culture and human communication. Despite the rhetoric of 'social' media, sharing, community and collaboration, the majority of the digital media sphere remains privately owned and controlled. In this corporate media system, multinational corporations maintain almost exclusive control over large parts of the media and communication technology, infrastructure and content.

Power in communicative capitalism is uneven and corporate control confronts us with a range of problems such as the systematic surveillance of Internet users, an increasingly commercialised online environment, devastating environmental impacts of the production and usage of media technologies and the global exploitation of digital labour. (Digital) media technologies are deeply entangled with the on-going economic, social, environmental and political crises.

Mobilising the empowering qualities of digital technologies and their potential to contribute to progressive social change requires an effective critique of corporate dominance, challenging power inequalities and strengthening radical alternatives.

This conference invites contributions that offer a critical analysis of corporate media culture and alternatives to it and thus contribute to rethinking power in communicative capitalism.

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Rethinking Power in Communicative CapitalismCritical Perspectives on Media, Culture and Society

Thursday, September 8: programme overview

13:00 REGISTRATION Building II, 2nd floor - Auditorium B20313:30-14:00 Conference Opening - B203 Welcome speeches: Fernando Luís Machado, Vice-rector of ISCTE-IUL for Research; Filipe Reis, Director of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Pedro Costa, Director of DINÂMIA'CET-IUL CHAIRS: Marisol Sandoval, Paulo Alves

14:00-14:55 Keynote Talk - B203 Christian Fuchs: Karl Marx and Communicative Capitalism CHAIR: Marisol Sandoval

15:00-16:30 Parallel Session 1A: Room C103 Image and Imagination of Protest Movements in Communicative Capitalism15:00-16:30 Parallel Session 1B: Room C104 Interrogating Power in Communicative Capitalism: Spaces and Materialities

16:30-17:00 COFFEE BREAK

17:00-18:30 Parallel Session 2A: Room C103 Strategies of Resistance: Disruption and Subversion in Communicative Capitalism 17:00-18:30 Parallel Session 2B: Room C104 Platform Capitalism VS. Communicative Communism

18:30 DRINKS RECEPTION: Atrium B2

Saturday, September 10: programme overviewFriday, September 9: programme overview

10:00-11:30 Parallel Session 3A: Room C103 Crises and Nationalism in Europe 10:00-11:30 Parallel Session 3B: Room C104 Theories of Power and Capital in Communicative Capitalism 11:30-12:00 COFFEE BREAK: Auditorium B20312:00-13:30 Parallel Session 4A: Room C103 The Power of Ideology in Communicative Capitalism 12:00-13:30 Parallel Session 4B: Room C104 Challenges for (Digital) Media Activism in Communicative Capitalism12:00-13:30 Parallel Session 4C: Room C201 Interrogating Communicative Capitalism: Media, Mediatization and Memory 13:30-15:00 LUNCH BREAK15:00-16:30 Parallel Session 5A: Room C103 Information and Power in Communicative Capitalism: Security, Surveillance and Data Leaks 15:00-16:30 Parallel Session 5B: Room C104 Labour and Precarity in Communicative Capitalism15:00-16:30 Parallel Session 5C: Room C201 Cultural Activism in Communicative Capitalism 16:30-17:00 COFFEE BREAK: Auditorium B20317:00-18:30 PLENARY SESSION: B203 Communicative capitalism and media activism in Portugal Speakers: Gustavo Cardoso (Full Professor at ISCTE-IUL) José Alberto Simões (Assistant Professor at FCSH-UNL) Nuno Ramos de Almeida (journalist and activist) CHAIRS: Roy Panagiotopoulou, Romina Surugiu20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE TALK, Auditorium B203 Jodi Dean: Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle CHAIR: Romina Surugiu 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30-13:00 Parallel Session 6A: Room C103 Interrogating Communicative Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Marketization, Commercialization and Financialisation 11:30-13:00 Parallel Session 6B: Room C104 Journalism and Media Work in Communicative Capitalism

13:00-13:30 COFFEE BREAK

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 7A: Room C103 Digital Labour and the Production of Value in Communicative Capitalism 13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 7B: Room C104 Media Power and Counter-Power in Communicative Capitalism

15:00-15:30 CLOSING SESSION, Auditorium B203 Alan Stoleroff, Director of the Department of Sociology, ISCTE-IUL Helena Carreiras, Director of the School of Sociology and Public Policies, ISCTE-IUL CHAIRS: Roy Panagiotopoulou, Romina Surugiu

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PARALLEL SESSION 1A, Room: C103, 15:00 – 16:30Image and Imagination of Protest Movements i n Communic ative CapitalismChair: Thomas AllmerMichael Dahan and Mouli Bentman: Doomed to fail: Political protest and political imagination in an era of communicative capitalism

Arkaitz Letamendia, Ion Andoni Del Amo and Jasón Diaux: Renewing resistances in communicative capitalism: Protest-image and political imaginaries

Raluca Petre: Internet as Space of Imagined Agency by Romanian Youth; voice and power in virtual worlds

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Thursday, September 8Thursday, September 8

PARALLEL SESSION 2A, Room: C103, 17:00 – 18:30Strategies of Resistance: Disruption and Subversion in Communicative CapitalismChair: Roy Panagiotopoulou

Will Jaques: Cultural disruption of [communicative] capitalism from Groucho Marxism to 4chanIngrid Hoofd: Towards a fatal politics: Raising the stakes of communicative subversionAntónio Baía Reis: Activism 'as if you were there': Virtual reality journalism concepts, uses, opportunities and limits towards a new form of activist media practiceLanka Horstink: Avaaz and the democratic quality of digital mass politics

PARALLEL SESSION 1B, Room: C104, 15:00 – 16:30Interrogating Power in Communicative C apitalism: Spaces and MaterialitiesChair: Romina SurugiuMiklos Sukosd: The environmental performance of media from normative concept to research and activism strategyAndrew Herman, Vincent Manzerolle and Brett Caraway: There is no snow in Silicon Valley: Materialities of communicative capitalism in a Canadian digital tech clusterHuang Pei: Video game company in time of “creative”: the case in BeijingMiguel Afonso Caetano: The political economy of intellectual property and cognitive capitalism

PARALLEL SESSION 2B, Room: C104, 17:00 – 18:30Platform Capitalism VS. Communicative C ommunismChair: Sebastian Sevignani

Jacob Matthews: The expansion of digital intermediation platforms: where will the web stop?Vladislav Dekalov: “Digital platform” as the basis of communicative capitalismPasko Bilic: Layers of ideology and labour behind Google's search algorithmMarisol Sandoval: Reclaiming social media. Cooperative politics in communicative capitalism.

PARALLEL SESSION 3A, Room: C103, 10.00-11.30Crises and Nationalism in EuropeChair: Pasko BillicRoy Panagiotopoulou: Migration flows, nationalism and the extreme right: Ideological challenge for European solidarityRita Ribeiro: Crisis, memory and media in EuropePawel Surowiec and Magdalena Kania-Lundholm: Negotiation of Poland's soft power narratives: problematizing nation branding on FacebookIsabel Ferin Cunha: Mediatization and crisis of democracy: The Issue corruption in Portugal

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Friday September 9,

PARALLEL SESSION 4A, Room: C103, 12.00-13.30The Power of Ideology in Communicative CapitalismChair: Raluca PetreYuqi Na: Ideas, opinions and ideologies of the Internet and social media: A case study of Chinese usersTimothy Strom: Into the glorious future: The utopia of cyber- capitalism according to Google's ideologuesErnesto Abalo: News for global sustainability? Reifying and othering social inequality in newsYu Xiang: Manufacturing ideological consent. A structural analysis of the hegemonic role of CCTV-Africa

PARALLEL SESSION 3B, Room: C104, 10.00-11.30Theories of Power and Capital in Communicative CapitalismChair: Marisol SandovalThomas Allmer: Critical theories of power in communicative capitalismPaul Candon: Reformulating communicative capital from a Bourdieusian perspectiveHoracio Correa Lucero: Marxist categories in communicative capitalism. Social networks and its potential as exemplifications of the applicability of Marxist theoryLee Artz: The media of power, the power of media

Britta Baumgarten, Lidia Fernandes and Inês Pereira: The promises and limits of media activism for poor people's movements in Portugal after 2011Andrea Miconi: Charismatic power in the web 2.0: the Italian case and the theoretical issueHaluk Mert Bal and Lemi Baruh: Digital media practices and conflict in a grassroots movement: The case of Imrahor GardenÉlmano Ricarte, Rita Maria Brás and Pedro Figueiras: The relationship between the Lisbon popular marches and the media: an alternative of mediatized world

Friday September 9,

PARALLEL SESSION 4B, Room: C104, 12.00-13.30Challenges for (Digital) Media Activism in Communicative CapitalismChair: Thomas Allmer

PARALLEL SESSION 4C, Room: C201, 12.00-13.30Interrogating Communicative Capitalism: Media, Mediatization and MemoryChair: Roy Panagiotopoulou

PARALLEL SESSION 4C, Room: C201, 12.00-13.30 (cont.)Hui-Lan Chang: Constructing an alternative genealogy of the media: An examination of the micro-power relationship between planned- obsolescence and reuse in contemporary media studiesPaulo Martins: All-In: capitalism as the medium, mediatization as its pervader, we as cogsÖzge Mumcu Aybars: Breaking down of cultural hierarchies: the use of social media

Yiannis Mylonas: Encountering and negotiating ethnicity and class traumas: web 2.0 memorial pages as archives and public spheres

PARALLEL SESSION 5A, Room: C103, 15.00-16.30Information and Power in Communicative Capitalism: Security, Surveillance and Data LeaksChair: Marisol Sandoval

Julian von Bargen: Intelligence for the people?: “Leaking”, the public's right to know, and the informational mode of powerAdam T. Kingsmith: (In)Securing cyberspace: reterritorialising cyber- security as cyber-absurdityAdam Fish: Beneath the Clouds, the BeachBehlül Çalışkan: Leaking journalism: A self- defense tool against mass surveillance

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Friday September 9,

Kaisu Hynnä: Activism in the popular media: Fat sexuality, capitalism, and the finnish fa(t)shion blog more to loveJorge M.L. Brandão Pereira and Heitor Alvelos: Stories of chairs — participatory action engaged with citizens and digital media towards a new territorial modelAntonello Bocchino: Examining the concepts of “no response”, 'fantasy of abundance' and resistance to co-optation in the context of a patient-based social media movementOfer Nur: Chaturbate.com: Pornotopia and the surprising challenge to the ills of communicative capitalismPARALLEL SESSION 5B, Room: C104, 15.00-16.30

Labour and Precarity in Communicative CapitalismChair: Pasko Billic

Paulo Alves: Call centre workers: loyalty, exit or… voice?Isabel Maria Bonito Roque: Fragmented occupational identities. A study on the Portuguese and British contact centre industryJaka Primorac: Labour practices in the audiovisual industry: The impact of virtual work in runaway productions

Friday September 9,

PARALLEL SESSION 5C, Room: C201, 15.00-16.30Cultural Activism in Communicative CapitalismChair: Romina Surugiu

PARALLEL SESSION 6A, Room: C103, 11.30-13.00Interrogating Communicative Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Marketization, Commercialization and FinancialisationChair: Sebastian Sevignani

Vassilis Charitsis and Alan Bradshaw: Selling thyself: Communicative capitalism and the emergence of personal data marketsVincent Manzerolle and Benjamin J. Birkinbine: Power and microtemporality: High-frequency trading and the infrastructure of capitalism's space-time continuumCaterina Foà: The customer is always right, and pay three times. Crowdfunding for performing arts projects: a Portuguese case-studyRichard Terry: Power misrecognised: MOOCs and the neoliberal subject

Romina Surugiu: Subjectivity of digital journalists: A theoretical approachLuminita Rosca: Digitization's effects on professional field of Romanian journalistsCem Koray Olgun: Corporate news media in Turkey: Changing the habitus of journalistsHajrudin Hromadzic: Media, spectacle culture, and journalistic precariousness

Saturday, September 10

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PARALLEL SESSION 6B, Room: C104, 11.30-13.00Journalism and Media Work in Communicative CapitalismChair: Raluca Petre

PARALLEL SESSION 7A, Room: C103, 13.30-15.00Digital Labour and the Production of Value in Communicative CapitalismChair: Marisol Sandoval

PARALLEL SESSION 7B, Room: C104, 13.30-15.00Media Power and Counter-Power in Communicative CapitalismChair: Romina Surugiu

Laysmara Carneiro Edoardo: Production of value and selfhood- commodity fetishism on FacebookGabriela Raulino: Capital accumulation in digital networks: Revisiting Karl Marx with the approaches of "Digital Labour" and "Informational Labour"Carina Brand: The extraction of 'life' in communicative capitalism: reinterpreting relative and absolute surplus value'Sebastian Sevignani: What is the social mechanism that establishes power inequalities in communicative capitalism?

Paloma Viejo Otero and Eugenia Siapera: Hate speech and social media platformsHelena Popovic: The journalistic field: news media and the rising importance of civil society mediaLorenzo Coretti: The attention economy and algorithmic filters of Facebook and protest in contemporary Italy: a critical perspectiveLina Moscoso and Ana Jorge: Alternative Media in Portuguese-speaking cyberspace: a comparative study of Brazilian “Outras Palavras” and Portuguese “O Corvo”

Saturday, September 10

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Sociology of Communications and Media Research

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Conference venueThe conference will be hosted by ISCTE- University Institute of LisbonAv das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal (http://iscte-iul.pt/en/quem_somos/localizacao.aspx)

The organisation is carried on by DINÂMIA'CET-IUL (http://dinamiacet.iscte-iul.pt/).The local organising committee is led by Professor Paulo Marques Alves, Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL and researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL.

The RN18 organising committee is led by Dr. Romina Surugiu, University of Bucharest and Dr. Marisol Sandoval, City University London.