The Internet as Playground and Factory: Session C Part 1 | The New School

SESSION C PART 1: IDEOLOGY AND THE EROTICS OF PLAYBOY
On Social Lubrication: Between the Digital and Chthonic, Dominic Pettman;
The Digital Ideology, Jonathan Beller;
Work Hard, Play Harder—Labor, Playboy, and the Ideology of Play, Julian Kücklich;
Estranged Free Labor, Mark Andrejevic.
Moderator Deborah Levitt.

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On November 12 through 14, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts hosted an international conference titled, "The Internet as Playground and Factory ," which explored the meaning and changing face of labor in the digital era.

The event sought to advance the conversation about digital media beyond technological advances and commercial applications to touch upon vital issues facing the future of Internet users. For three days, 90 theorists, artists, legal scholars, activists, students, programmers, historians, and social media experts joined to re-evaluate what constitutes unpaid labor, value, leisure, play, fun, and exploitation in an economy that is increasingly driven by the expropriation of all our blogging, data entries in online profiles, and submitted photos and videos. The conference was comprised of discussions, panels, presentations, a film screening, a playroom, a conference game, and a re-enactment of Facebook by a performance artist.

To view the full conference agenda and list of participants, please visit http://www.digitallabor.org . Video interviews with participants are available at http://vimeo.com/user2103510/videos . You can also enter the event discussion through Twitter at http://twitter.com/idctweets .

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* Location: Alvin Johnson Building, 66 West 12th Street, room 407. Friday, November 13, 2009. 10:30 a.m.1:15 p.m.

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