DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, BARRICADES (#DL14)

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Day 1: Thursday, November 13, 2014

6:00PM

FILM SCREENING: WORKINGMAN’S DEATH BY MICHAEL GLAWOGGER

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Room 404
66 West 12th Street

Day 2: Friday, November 14, 2014

8:00AM

SPEAKER CHECK-IN

The New School
Lobby outside The Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
10:00AM

OPENING PLENARY

The New School
Eugene Lang Building
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street

Tim Marshall, Trebor Scholz
10:45AM

SESSION A: THE DEATH OF EMPLOYMENT; LONG LIVE WORKER RIGHTS

The New School
Eugene Lang Building
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street,

Nathan Schneider, Brishen Rogers, Rebecca Smith, Michael Grabell
10:45AM

SESSION B: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE ON FEMINIST/ FEMINIZED DIGITAL LABOR

The New School
Vera List Center,
Wolff Conference Room (1103)
6 East 16th Street

Laura Y. Liu, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, T.L. Cowan, Christina H. Moon, Veronica Paredes, Jasmine Rault, Miriam Ticktin
10:45AM

SESSION C: (NOT) GETTING PAID TO WORK AND PLAY

The New School
Leadership Center (802)
80 Fifth Avenue

Andreas Wittel, Howard Hendrix, Greg Goldberg, Payal Arora
10:45AM

SESSION D: CULTURE WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

The New School
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center,
Kellen Auditorium (101)
66 Fifth Avenue

Greig de Peuter, Nicole Cohen, Yates Mckee, Astra Taylor, Trebor Scholz
10:45AM

SESSION E: PERSPECTIVES ON DIGITAL LABOR AND THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Room 501
66 West 12th Street

Ergin Bulut, Aleena Chia, Thorsten Busch, Mia Consalvo
1:15PM

COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
2:15PM

SESSION A: FAIRNESS IN CROWD WORK

The New School
Eugene Lang Building,
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street

Prayag Narula, Trebor Scholz, Mark Graham, Sarah Roberts
2:15PM

SESSION B: SEARCH, DATA FLOWS, AND VERTICAL EXTRACTION

The New School
Vera List Center,
Wolff Conference Room (1103)
6 East 16th Street

Astrid Mager, Stefan Heidenreich, David Hakken, Rory Solomon, Michael Schober
2:15PM

SESSION C: CUNY DIGITAL LABOR WORKING GROUP ROUNDTABLE: THE PLACE, POLITICS, AND FUNCTION OF MEASURE

The New School
Leadership Center (802)
80 Fifth Avenue

Tom Buechele, Karen Gregory, Andrew McKinney, R Joshua Scannell, Kara M. Van Cleaf
2:15PM

SESSION D: THE LABOR OF LOVE AND THE NEW SOVIET MAN IN SILICON VALLEY

The New School
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center,
Kellen Auditorium (101)
66 Fifth Avenue

Benj Gerdes, Stephanie Rothenberg, Burak Arikan, Elliot Vredenburg, Pooja Rangan
2:15PM

SESSION E: VALUE CAPTURE AND THE AFFECT MACHINE: NON-MONEY CAPITAL IN THE DIGITAL AGE

The New School
Room 1618
79 Fifth Avenue,

Niels van Doorn, Karin Hansson, Morgan Currie, Dmytri Kleiner
2:15PM

SESSION F: DIGITAL LABOR, SEX WORK, AND MARIA’S GENTLEWHISPERING

Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Room 501
66 West 12th Street

Tanja Sihvonen, Terri Senft, T.L. Cowan
2:15PM

SESSION G: RESOURCE SHARING AND DIGITIZATION IN THE ARTS

Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Room 403
66 West 12th Street

Caroline Woolard, João Enxuto and Erica Love
4:45PM

COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
5:15PM

SESSION A: TEMP LAND: WORKING IN THE NEW ECONOMY

The New School
Eugene Lang Building,
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street

Michael Grabell
5:15PM

SESSION B: CROWD WORK: THE FUTURE OF DESIGN

The New School
Leadership Center (802)
80 Fifth Avenue

Florian Alexander Schmidt, David Carroll
5:15PM

SESSION C: MOVEMENT MATERIALS AND WHAT WE CAN DO

The New School
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center,
Kellen Auditorium (101)
66 Fifth Avenu

Andrew Norman Wilson, Genevieve Yue
5:15PM

SESSION D: HOW INTERFACES DEMAND OBEDIENCE

The New York
Room 1618
79 Fifth Avenue

Mushon Zer-Aviv
5:15PM

SESSION E: SAYSUS/GNUNION

Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Room 501
66 West 12th Street

Frank Kashner, Örsan Şenalp
5:15PM

SESSION G: TEAMSTERS, UPS, & THE GIG ECONOMY (STUDENT PANEL)

The New York
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Room 403
66 West 12th Street

Samuel Tanner, Calle Knight, Rory Solomon, Sam Dwyer
7:00PM

DISABILITY AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
The Auditorium, ground floor
66 West 12th Street

Andrew Ross, Sunaura Taylor
8:15PM

FIRST DAY CLOSING IMPRESSIONS

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
The Auditorium, ground floor
66 West 12th Street

Sarah Roberts, Winifred Poster, McKenzie Wark, Karen Gregory, Lilly Irani

Day 3: Saturday, November 15, 2014

8:15AM

SPEAKER CHECK-IN

The New School
Lobby outside The Auditorium,

66 West 12th Street
9:15AM

WELCOME

The New School
Eugene Lang Building,
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street

Stephanie Browner, Trebor Scholz
10:00AM

SESSION A: TAXING DATA LABOR AND LABOR IN THE MONETIZED PEER ECONOMY

The New School
Eugene Lang Building,
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street

Nicolas Colin, Frank Pasquale, Trebor Scholz, Antonio A. Casilli
10:00AM

SESSION B: CIVIC HACKING

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Room 407

66 West 12th Street

Carl DiSalvo, Melissa Gregg, Thomas James Lodato, Andrew Richard Schrock, Byron Peters, Tyler Coburn, Max Liboiron
10:00AM

SESSION D: DIGITAL LABOR AND GEOGRAPHIES OF CRISIS

Room 1009
6 East 16th Street

Karen Gregory, Daniel Joseph, Audrey Watters, Matthew Tiessen, Austin Walker, Dan Greene
10:00AM

SESSION E: DIGITAL SOLIDARITY AND CROWDSOURCING

The New School
Leadership Center (802)
80 Fifth Avenue

Alessandra Renzi, Marco Deseriis, Niloufar Salehi, Marisa Jahn
10:00AM

SESSION F: ALGORITHMIC HEGEMONY AND THE DRONING OF LABOR

The New York
Vera List Center,
Wolff Conference Room (1103)
6 East 16th Street

A. Aneesh, Jathan Sadowski, Orit Halpern, Doris Allhutter, Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Mark Andrejevic
12:30PM

Coffee and Tea Break
1:30PM

SESSION A: THE FUTURE OF WORKERS IN THE SHARING ECONOMY

Eugene Lang Building,
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street

Tom Slee, Denise Cheng, Andrew Leonard, Arun Sundararajan, Trebor Scholz
1:30PM

SESSION B: LOW-WAGE WORK: GETTING BY AND FIGHTING BACK

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kapan Hall,
Room 404
66 West 12th Street

Winifred Poster, Miriam Cherry, Frank Pasquale, Heather Whitney
1:30PM

SESSION C: INVISIBLE, ESSENTIAL LABOR IN SUPPLY CHAIN CAPITALISM

Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Room 407
66 West 12th Street

Safiya Umoja Noble, Gavin Mueller, Sarah Roberts, Miriam Posner, Paula Chakravartty
1:30PM

SESSION D: MTURK WORKERS: WE’RE HERE AND WE’RE HUMAN

The New School
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center,
Kellen Auditorium (101)
66 Fifth Avenue

Kristy Milland, Rochelle LaPlante, Manish Bhatia, Lilly Irani, Harris Paltrowitz
1:30PM

SESSION E: DIGITAL LABOR IN THE CIRCUITS OF VALUE CAPTURE

The New School
Vera List Center,
Room 1009
6 East 16th Street

Alice Marwick, Brittany Paris, Laurel Ptak, Henry Warwick, Renée Ridgway
1:30PM

SESSION F: FREELANCERS AND UNIONS IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

The New School
Leadership Center (802)
80 Fifth Avenue

Austin Walker, Trent Cruz, Jonathan Burston, Karel Koch, Joke Hermes, Emily Barnett, Jefferson Cowie, Florian Alexander Schmidt
2:00PM

CREATIVE TIME SUMMIT: ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Orozco Room (712)
66 West 12th Street

Alessandra Renzi
4:00PM

COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
4:30PM

SESSION A: MONOPSONY ONLINE: CROWDWORKING AND MARKET POWER

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Room 404
66 West 12th Street

Mary L. Gray, Sara C. Kingsley, Siddharth “Sid” Suri
4:30PM

SESSION B: READING FACES IN THE CROWD: POSTCOLONIAL ALGORITHMS OF AFFECTIVE COMPUTING

The New School
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center,
Kellen Auditorium (101)
66 Fifth Avenue,

Ayhan Ayteş, Mark Andrejevic
4:30PM

SESSION C: THE TROLLETARIAN CONDITION: TROLLING AS DIGITAL LABOR

The New School
Vera List Center,
Room 1009
6 East 16th Street

Antonio A. Casilli
4:30PM

SESSION D: ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS: UNION SUBSTITUTES OR SOMETHING ELSE?

The New School
Leadership Center (802)
80 Fifth Avenue

Heather Whitney
4:30PM

SESSION E: DIGITAL LABOR AND THE ANTHROPOCENE

The New School
Vera List Center,
Wolff Conference Room (1103)
6 East 16th Street

McKenzie Wark
4:30PM

SESSION F: NO CONTROVERSY!

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
Room 407
66 West 12th Street

Seda Gurses, Laura Forlano, Lilly Irani
4:30PM

LAUNCH OF ADNAUSEAM

The New School
Eugene Lang Building,
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street

Helen Nissenbaum, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Daniel C. Howe
5:00PM

READING FROM I’M THAT ANGEL

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Limited seats available.

Tyler Coburn
6:15PM

A RELEVANT PAST FOR A DIGITAL AGE?

The New School
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall,
The Auditorium, ground floor
66 West 12th Street

Jefferson Cowie, Sara Horowitz, Vanessa Barth, Trebor Scholz
8:00PM

SATURDAY EVENING PARTY

The New School
Eugene Lang Building,
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street

Sean Farrell

Day 4: Sunday, November 16, 2014

11:00AM

REFLECTION

The New School
Eugene Lang Building,
Wollman Hall (500)
65 West 11th Street
12:00PM

SESSION A: “IN C” PERFORMANCE

The New School

Henry Warwick
12:00PM

SESSION B: THEORIZING THE WEB PRESENTS: DATA CAPTURE

The New School
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center,
Kellen Auditorium (101)lz
66 Fifth Avenue

PJ Rey, Melissa Gira Grant, Rob Horning, Molly Osberg, Nathan Jurgenson, Zeynep Tufekci
12:00PM

SESSION D: DESIGN THE FUTURE OF THE NETWORKED WORKPLACE

The New School
Leadership Center (802)
80 Fifth Avenue

Mushon Zer-Aviv, Lilly Irani, Laura Forlano, Niloufar Salehi, Kristy Milland, Rochelle LaPlante
1:00PM

SESSION E: LONG STORY SHORT

The New School
Vera List Center,
Room 1009
6 East 16th Street

Natalie Bookchin