[Air-L] "A European Perspective on Platformization" – a public lecture by José Maria Van Dijck - University of Siena (IT) April 12

[tiziano bonini]

Someone in this list might be interested in this public lecture:

"A European Perspective on Platformization" – a public lecture by  José
Maria Van Dijck (Utrecht University)

Tuesday, April 12, 2.30-4.15 pm (UTC +2) External Pavilion, Lecture Hall
A+B, San Niccolò, Via Roma 56, Siena

The event is part of the 2018-2022 Visiting Scholarship program funded by
DISPOC (Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences) at the
University of Siena (IT) and will be streamed live on this link:
*http://meet.google.com/fyo-twsq-wwr
<http://meet.google.com/fyo-twsq-wwr>*

*Abstract*
The growing pains of digitization involve intense struggles between two
platform ecosystems fighting for information control: a Chinese and
American-based ecosystem. A handful of American Big Tech platforms have
overwhelmingly penetrated Western-European societies, disrupting markets
and labor relations, transforming social and civic practices, and affecting
democracies. At the heart of the online media’s industry’s surge is the
battle over information control: who owns the data generated by online
social activities? While two large ecosystems fight for information control
in the global online world, the European perspective on digital
infrastructures lags behind.
This lecture takes up two questions. First, how can we govern public values
in platform societies across Europe? Values such as privacy, security,
transparency, equality, public trust, and
institutional sovereignty are important principles upon which the design of
platform architectures should be based. Democratic principles and the
common good are the very stakes in the struggle over platformization of
societies around the globe. Secondly, the lecture focuses on what
responsibilities
companies, governments and citizens have in building such a sustainable
platform ecosystem? Who is responsible for anchoring public values in an
online world and who can be held accountable? Particularly in the European
context, governments and civil society organizations can be more proactive
in negotiating public values on behalf of citizens and consumers.

*Biographical note*
José van Dijck is a distinguished university professor at the University of
Utrecht (The Netherlands); she was the president of the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2015 until 2018. She was a visiting
professor at MIT (USA), University of Toronto (CAN),
Stockholm University (SWE) and University of Technology, Sydney (AUS). She
received an honorary doctorate from Lund University (SWE). In 2022, she was
rewarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest academic award in Dutch academia.
Van Dijck’s academic field is media studies and digital society. Her work
covers a wide range of
topics in media theory, media and communication technologies, social media,
and digital culture.
She is the (co-)author and (co-)editor of ten books and over one hundred
journal articles and book chapters. Van Dijck’s book *The Culture of
Connectivity. A Critical History of Social Media* (Oxford UP, 2013) was
distributed worldwide and was translated into Spanish, Chinese and Farsi.
Her latest book, co-authored by Thomas Poell, Martijn de Waal is titled *The
Platform Society. Public values in a connective world* (Oxford University
Press, 2018).

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Tiziano Bonini
||| Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and media |||
DISPOC Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Politiche e Cognitive
Università degli studi di Siena
Via Roma 56,
53100 Siena

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