Platform Politics - A Multidisciplinary Conference
11 - 13 May , 2011, Anglia Ruskin University, St George House, Cambridge
Wednesday 11 May
Pre-Conference Event introduced by Joss Hands and Jussi Parikka
17.15 - 19.15
Michel Bauwens - Social struggles and corporate platforms: within or without?
Michael Goddard - Platforms, Parties and Plateaus: Towards an Autonomous Take on Platform Politics
Thursday 12 May
Arrival & Registration 9.00 onwards
9.25 - 9.40
Welcome from the organisers: Joss Hands & Jussi Parikka
9.40 - 11.40 - Keynote Panel
(Boardroom) Chair: Jussi Parikka
Tiziana Terranova - Hyper-social Networks and Revolutionary Affect
Nick Couldry - The Disappearing Social: Some Problems in Theories of Networked Politics
11.40 - 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 - 13.30 - Panels
Stream 1 (Boardroom) Chair: Joss Hands
Simon Collister and Dan Mcquillan - Platforms as assemblages of resistance: a case study of hybridised media activism during the Egyptian uprising
Ulises Mejias - Twitter Revolutions, Monopsonies and Platform Epistemes
Anastasia Kavada - Web platforms and collective action: the complementary roles of proprietary and non-proprietary platforms.
Stream 2 (VC’s Office) Chair: Ganaele Langlois
Carolin Gerlitz and Anne Helmond - The Like economy: Organizing value and the social
Radhika Gajjala - E-philanthropy and Digital Globalization through online
micro-transactional platforms
Anja Kanngieser - Exploring the Research Platform: Methods for Transcultural Political Mappings.
13.30 - 14.45 Lunch Break
14.45 - 15.45 - Keynote
(Boardroom) Chair: Ganaele Langlois
Dmytri Kleiner - The Telekommunist Manifesto
15.45 - 16.00 Short Break
16.00 - 18.00 - Panel
(Boardroom) Chair: David M. Berry
Mark Cote - Platform polis and the (non)local political body
Alessandra Renzi - Platfomativity- Media Making in an Age of Collaboration
Tarleton Gillespie - The Private Governance of Digital Content, or how Apple intends to offer you 'freedom from porn’
Alison Powell - Openness and Enclosure in Mobile Internet Architecture
18.00 Close
19.00 - Dinner
Jamie Oliver’s Italian, The Old Library, Wheeler St
Please let us know if you would like to attend - there will be two set menus to chose from, see here
Friday 13 May
9.30-11.30 - Panel
(Boardroom) Chair: Jussi Parikka
Robert Jackson (Geoff Cox co-author) - Antagonistic Interfa(e)ces: The purification of General Intellect, encapsulation and impure code
Chris Chesher - Materialising robotic platforms
Dean Lockwood and Rob Coley - Digging a Deeper Hole:
Cloud computing and the tame ghost of radicalism
Paul Caplan - Software Tunnels Through the Rags 'n Refuse: Object Oriented Software Studies and Platform Politics
11.30 - 11.50 - Coffee Break
11.50 - 13.20 - Panel
(Boardroom) Chair: Greg Elmer
Nick Dyer-Witheford - Red Plenty Platforms: For a New, Networked Socialism
Felix Stalder - The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks. Platforms for radical politics of access and their politics
David M. Berry - The Ontology of Twitter
13.20 -14.30 - Lunch
14.30-16.00 - Panels
Stream 1 (Boardroom) Chair: Rob Coley
Nick Mahony - Towards a three-dimensional view of contemporary participative experimentation
Thomas Poell (Co-author Erik Borra) The Social Media Protest Environment: Constructing the Collective Now
Jennifer Jones - Online Platforms and Citizen Media Collectives: The Vancouver Winter Games 2010
Stream 2 (VC’s Office) Chair: Dean Lockwood
Carlos Barreneche - Location Platforms and the Production of Governable Places
Tero Karppi - Hot Spots: Subjects of Augmented Reality Applications
Jennifer Gabrys - ‘City as Platform’: The Politics of Urban Participation in the Connected Sustainable City
16.00 - 16.15 Short Break
16.15 - 17.15 Keynote
(Boardroom) Chair: Joss Hands
Tim Jordan - Platforms and Information Politics
17.15 - 18.00 - Plenary
Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois, summary observations and details of journal special issue, followed by brief closing remarks from Joss Hands and Jussi Parikka.
19.00 Friday Evening Entertainment
By happy coincidence If anyone would care for some post-conference relaxation and entertainment there is a event at the Mumford Theatre, part of Anglia Ruskin University's main Campus:
'Professor Vanessa's Performing Wonders' - 'Cine-variety and Spectacular Entertainments'
Featuring early films with live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne, vintage ephemera from the British Library's Evanion collection, and performances by internationally renowned artists including Olivier award winning showwoman and artiste Marisa Carnesky, Swordswallower and eccentric comedienne Miss Behave, Hoola Hoop legend Marawa the Amazing, and fire eater Tim Cockerill appearing as The Great Inferno. Don't miss this extravagant showcase of neo-variety acts and the late-Victorian and Edwardian performance cultures that inspire them!
More details here
Conference pack, with schedule and abstracts, downloadable in PDF format HERE