[AISWorld] Laboring Online: AIS Journal Club Webinar on Feb. 11

[Rachel Daeger]

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AIS Journal Club Webinar Series - Spring 2015

Session # 2:

Laboring Online: Are There "New" Labor Processes In Virtual Game Worlds?


Register<https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/6488832006793066498?source=list>

Wednesday, February 11 at 1 p.m. EST

presented by Anita Greenhill, PhD, University of Manchester and Gordon Fletcher, PhD, University of Salford



Digital Labour Webinar learning objectives:



To understand contemporary capitalism as the mixture of high-technology advances, the concentration of speculative financial capital, and the increasing differentiation between those who are better and worse off.



To illustrate that a pivotal element of contemporary capitalism is an appropriation of social activities into the capitalist mode of production and the construction of social life as forms of labour. The labour aspects of everyday life are hidden and couched as entertainment, leisure, arts and crafts as well as artistic endeavours



To highlight the ways in which social activities enabled through technologies - including multiplayer games - are complicit in incorporating youth into prevailing economic hegemonies - and at an extreme are training youth to become workers in the digital economy.

About the Authors:



Dr. Anita Greenhill received her PhD from the Engineering & Information Technology Faculty, Griffith University in 2002. She also received her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) II from the Arts Faculty, Griffith University in 1993. Prior to her appointment Anita was employed as a lecturer in Information Systems in the Faculty of Management and Commerce, Griffith University, and in the Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, Griffith University. Anita has over 60 published articles in various fields of interest and expertise: Information Systems, Virtual Communities, Sociology, Skills acquisition in Information Technology, Gender an Information Technology, Information Technology, Policy and Education, Qualitative Research Methods.



Dr. Gordon Fletcher is head of the International Operations and Information Management academic unit at Salford Business School. I have been at the University of Salford for 12 years researching around all aspects of digital culture and business while teaching programming, systems development and web design. I am a motivated educator, manager and innovator with an eye for the distinctive, inspirational and new. My objective is to disseminate and share knowledge to the broadest possible audience with the goal of enabling the success of others in a digitally rich business and social environment.


About AIS:
AIS Members attend webinars free as a benefit of membership. Members of student chapters also receive free registration. Cost to attend as a non-member is $25. If you are not an AIS member you will receive an email with payment instructions after registering. If you indicated an interest in joining, you'll be contacted with membership details.


If you have any questions about attending or sponsoring this webinar series, please contact Rachel Daeger at rachel at aisnet.org<mailto:rachel at aisnet.org>.

Journal Clubs were established more than 150 years ago for professors and students to share and discuss current research. Today, this same educational exchange can take place worldwide through online webinars.










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