2nd Call: Conference "Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society"

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Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society.
Towards Critical Theories of Social Media.
The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference.

Uppsala University. May 2nd-4th, 2012.

Information about abstract submission (deadline: February, 29th, 17:00, 
CET; early submission is recommended) and further information:

http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/

Opening Plenary:
* Vincent Mosco (Queen’s University, Canada): Marx is Back, but Will 
Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? On the Critical Study of Labour, 
Media, and Communication Today
* Graham Murdock (Loughborough University, UK): The Digital Lives of 
Commodities: Consumption, Ideology and Exploitation Today

With plenary talks by Andrew Feenberg, Catherine McKercher, Charles Ess, 
Christian Christensen, Christian Fuchs, Gunilla Bradley, Mark 
Andrejevic, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Peter Dahlgren, Tobias Olsson, Trebor 
Scholz, Ursula Huws, Wolfgang Hofkirchner.

This conference provides a forum for the discussion of how to critically 
study social media and their relevance for critique, democracy, politics 
and philosophy in 21st century information society.