Agenda

International Conference 'Emerging Platform Society'

Aula Seminari Torretta SDE - Strada Maggiore 45, Bologna & ZOOM - In presence and online event

The UNIBO-IITK Research Group has organized the international conference Emerging Platform Society in the form of a 3-day open online workshop to investigate the platform ecosystem from a multidisciplinary, cross-continental perspective thanks to the contribution of esteemed lecturers and academics

Media & Consumer Culture (international conference)

Aula Seminari Torretta SDE – Strada Maggiore 45, Bologna & Zoom - In presence and online event

Keynote address by Kornelia Hahn, University of Salzburg. Ocula scientific journal presentation "Gender, Genres and Generations" plus a concluding roundtable with esteemed scholars.

Digital Money (international conference)

ZOOM - Online event

Panel Discussion with Jillet Sarah Sam & Brian Gomes, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Sunniva Sandbukt, University of Copenhagen | Koray Caliskan, The New School | Tom McDonald & Rao Yichen, University of Hong Kong

Digital payments: making payments personal and social (international conference)

ZOOM - Online event

Keynote address by Sophie Mützel, University of Lucerne

The Global Smartphone & Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy (international conference)

ZOOM and SDE Unibo department - In presence and online event

Book presentation The Global Smartphone by Daniel Miller, University College London & Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy by Shireen Walton, Goldsmiths University of London | Discussants: Piergiorgio Degli Esposti, University of Bologna & Jillet Sarah Sam, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Digital Consumption and Prosumption (international conference)

ZOOM - Online event

Panel Discussion with Martin Kenney, University of California Davis & Donato Cutolo, University of Bologna | Piergiorgio Degli Esposti, University of Bologna | Kornelia Hahn, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg | Roberto Barbeito, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

The Smartphone as a Platform for Life (international conference)

ZOOM and SDE Unibo department - In presence and online event

Keynote address by Daniel Miller, University College London

Putting the Prosumer to Work. The Roots of Thinking about Prosumtpion in "The McDonaldization of Society"

ZOOM - Online event

Zoom online lecture with George Ritzer - the ZOOM link will be sent by email to all those who register

Platformisation and prosumption, into the hybrid reality

Piergiorgio Degli Esposti

Structures that makes work possible in emerging platform societies: Family, Kinship and Region in India

Jillet Sarah Sam

COVID-19 and Emerging Platform Societies: The digital divide and pandemic inequalities

J. Michael Ryan Assistant Professor of Sociology Nazarbayev University

Artificial intelligence and culture

Lev Manovich Director, Cultural Analytics Lab Presidential Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York