Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture features Leopoldina Fortunati
Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk
June 14, 2016
Fukuoka, Japan
The 2016 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture features
Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Udine, Italy), at 12 pm, on
June 14, 2016, in Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, International
Communication Association’s 66th Annual Conference, in Fukuoka,
Japan.
The title of Fortunati’s lecture is “Feminism, labor and the
mechanization of everyday life.” In the lecture, Fortunati will adopt a
political economy approach to examine the issue of machines diffusion in
everyday life, which connects machines with labor, value production and struggles/resistance,
especially by women, against the present organization and division of labor.
Fortunati will address the social and political role of
machines in society, as well as social robots, which can be considered in many
ways the next new media. Some social robots built in recent years in many laboratories
are ready to be launched on the market and more generally placed in society.
But the conceptual tools to handle this last mile to go still need to be fully
developed. When an object of such technological complexity and with such
rhetorical power, like robots are, is no longer used only by niches of
innovators or users (such as autistic) but is proposed as a good of mass
consumption, a series of problems, new themes and strategies comes into the
spotlight.
This event is co-sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for
Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com),
University of Illinois, Chicago, and the International Communication
Association. For more information about this event, please contact
Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, sarina.chen@uni.edu.
