[ELECTRON] Fwd: 'Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens' and political censorship on Facebook

[Simon Yuill]

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Subject: <edu-factory> ephemera Issue on Digital Labor Released
From:    "Stevphen Shukaitis" <stevphen at autonomedia.org>
Date:    Fri, April 29, 2011 4:17 pm
To:      edufactory at listcultures.org
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ephemera Issue on Digital Labor Released

Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens
ephemera: theory & politics in organization Volume 10 Number 3-4
http://www.ephemeraweb.org
Edited by Jonathan Burston, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alison Hearn

Born out of the conference of the same name held in the fall of 2009 at 
the University of Western Ontario, this special double issue of ephemera 
addresses the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in 
practice, politics, policy, culture, and theoretical enquiry. As
workers, as authors, and as citizens, we are increasingly summoned and 
disciplined by new digital technologies that define the workplace and 
produce ever more complex regimes of surveillance and control. At the 
same time, new possibilities for agency and new spaces for collectivity 
are borne from these multiplying digital innovations. This volume 
explores this social dialectic, with a specific focus on new forms of 
labour. Papers examine the histories and theories of digital capitalism, 
foundational assumptions in debates about digital labour, issues of 
intellectual property and copyright, material changes in the digital 
workplace, transnational perspectives on digital labour, the issue of 
free labour and new definitions of work, and struggles and contests on 
the scene of digital production. Contributors include Brian Holmes, 
Andrea Fumagalli and Cristina Morini, David Hesmondhalgh, Ursula Huws, 
Barry King, Jack Bratich, Enda Brophy and many others. This issue also 
contains vital contributions from union and guild activists hailing from 
the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the 
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the
University of Western Ontario Faculty Association and the Canadian 
Association of University Teachers (CAUT).

The Digital Labour Group: Jonathan Burston, Edward Comor, James Compton, 
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alison Hearn, Ajit Pyati, Sandra Smeltzer, Matt 
Stahl, Samuel E. Trosow.

Contents
Brian Holmes - Is it written in the stars? Global finance, precarious 
destinies
Cristina Morini and Andrea Fumagalli - Life put to work: Towards a life 
theory of value
Emanuele Leonardi - The imprimatur of capital: Gilbert Simondon and the 
hypothesis of cognitive capitalism
David Hesmondhalgh - User-generated content, free labour and the
cultural industries
Barry King - On the new dignity of labour
Jack Bratich - The digital touch: Craft-work as immaterial labour and 
ontological accumulation
Sam Trosow - The copyright policy paradox: Overcoming competing agendas 
in the digital labour movement
Matt Stahl - Primitive accumulation, the social common, and the
contractual lockdown of recording artists at the threshold
Michael McNally - Enterprise content management systems and the
applicatio of Taylorism and Fordism to intellectual labour
Helen Kennedy - The successful self-regulation of web designers
Sandra Smeltzer and Daniel J. Paré - The labour of ICT4D: Whither the 
separation of carriage and content?
Ajit Pyati - Re-envisioning the ‘knowledge society’ in India: Resisting 
neoliberalism and the case for the 'public'
Alison Hearn - Structuring feeling: Web 2.0, online ranking and rating, 
and the digital 'reputation' economy
Edward Comor - Digital prosumption and alienation
Vincent Manzerolle Mobilizing the audience commodity: Digital labour in  a
wireless world
Enda Brophy - The subterranean stream: Communicative capitalism and call 
centre labour
Nick Dyer-Witheford - Digital labour and species-being
Ursula Huws - Expression and expropriation: The dialectics of autonomy 
and control in creative labour
Lise Lareau - The impact of digital technology on media workers: Life  has
completely changed
Mark Bradley - What about citizens?
Mike Kraft - The singularity of intellectual property
Melanie Mills - Information workers in the academy: The case of
librarians and archivists at The University of Western Ontario
Paul Jones - Digital labour in the academic context: Challenges for 
academic staff associations

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Subject: Fwd: Join anti-FB purge group / pass it on!
From:    "Variant Magazine" <variantmag at btinternet.com>
Date:    Fri, April 29, 2011 3:18 pm
To:      variantinfo at topica.com
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http://goldsmithsinoccupation.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/stop-the-facebookpurge/

Stop the facebookpurge!

We demand the reinstatement of all the political Facebook accounts blocked
in the run-up to the royal wedding, and that Facebook release an official
apology to all those affected.

As the media gather to celebrate the nuptials of our aristo overlords and
the police pre-emptively cleanse London, making arrests under the new
unpublicised thought crime ‘suspicion of being an anarchist’, Facebook has
joined in the crackdown by blocking political accounts. The following
accounts have been blocked in the 12 hours leading up to the royal
wedding:

Open Birkbeck
UWE Occupation
Chesterfield Stopthecuts
Camberwell AntiCuts
IVA Womensrevolution
Tower Hamlets Greens
No Cuts
ArtsAgainst Cuts
London Student Assembly
Beat’n Streets
Roscoe ‘Manchester’ Occupation
Bristol Bookfair
Newcastle Occupation
Socialist Unity
Whospeaks Forus
Ourland FreeLand
Bristol Ukuncut
Teampalestina Shaf
Notts-Uncut Part-of UKUncut
No Quarter Cutthewar
Bootle Labour
Claimants Fightback
Ecosocialists Unite
Comrade George Orwell
Jason Derrick
Anarchista Rebellionist
BigSociety Leeds
Slade Occupation
Anti-Cuts Across Wigan
Firstof Mayband
Don’t Break Britain United
Cockneyreject
SWP Cork
Westiminster Trades Council
York Anarchists
Rock War
Sheffield Occupation
Central London SWP
North London Solidarity
Southwark Sos
Save NHS
Rochdale Law Centre
Goldsmiths Fights Back

The Facebook statement of rights and responsibilities reveals that the
threat of deletion is constantly hovering over the heads of anyone who
dares to participate in social media without fully revealing their
identity – “use of a fake name” is among the violations that can lead to
accounts being deleted – but it is clear that this recent wave of
shutdowns is politically motivated, part of a network of repression
designed to stifle protest.

Unfortunately, should you take issue with Facebook’s corporate policies,
all grievances must according to our tacit agreement be pursued through
California law courts (see FB statement of rights). As total transparency
is demanded of us through our participation in social media, the people
who dictate its terms hide behind legal firewalls.

The mainstream media has celebrated how protestors in the Middle East have
used social media to organise revolution – now let’s see if the same
pundits who were excited by Tahrir on Twitter speak up to defend UK-based
activists who are now to be barred from organising and discussing via
supposedly liberatory social media mechanisms.

[For those on FB] Please join our Facebook group to protest the purge:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#!/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672