You can now watch the full seminar on “Global Digital Inequalities”, featuring Nishant Shah and Padmini Ray Murray How does digitisation reshape the distribution of cultural, economic, and political resources around the globe? Over the past decades, this has been a central question in activist, scholarly, and policy debate. In this webinar, feminist technologist Nishant Shah…
You can now watch the full seminar on “Engaging with Online Sex Work”, featuring Lorelei Lee and Antonia Hernandez Many concepts ‘meet’ each other in the practices of online sex work; physical & digital, pleasure & power, intimacy & publicness, body & labour. Not to forget how gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality intersect in…
You can now watch the keynote discussion of our kick-off event, between Louise Amoore (Durham University) and Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam). In their conversation, Amoore and Milan discussed Amoore’s new book Cloud Ethics (Duke University Press) – which examines how algorithms transform society’s ethics and politics – and how it relates to Milan’s project…
You can now watch the full seminar on “Digital Sex Work in the Age of COVID”, featuring Angela Jones, Yvette Luhrs, and Zaïre Krieger. Digitization is transforming the global sex industry. With their low barrier of entry, live, and highly interactive character, webcam sex platforms such as Chaturbate or LiveJasmin have become one of the…
On September 23, we held the Online Seminar “Digital Public Infrastructures” with the participation of Jack Linchuan Qiu (University of Singapore), Seda Gürses, (TU Delft), and Geert-Jan Bogaerts (PublicSpaces). The event, chaired by Thomas Poell, looked into whether there is a need for digital public infrastructures. It asks: Which digital public services are needed and…
You can now watch the full video of the “Programmed Racism” online seminar, where Sennay Ghebreab (UvA Civic AI Lab), Linnet Taylor (TILT), and Payal Arora (Erasmus School of Philosophy) discussed how digital technologies mediate racism. Watch the full online seminar:
All invited! Digitization is transforming cultural practices around the world, from friendship, intimacy and sexual relations, to the construction, targeting, and surveillance of publics. Digital platforms and mobile apps have rapidly become central to the production, circulation, consumption, and monetization of culture. Global Digital Cultures critically explores these developments from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. These…
All Welcome! On Friday, October 2, 2020, the University of Amsterdam will launch its new research priority area ‘Global Digital Cultures’ (GDC). Researchers and students from all faculties at the UvA, as well as non-UvA audiences with an interest in these topics, are warmly invited to this online event. There will be a keynote dialogue with Louise Amoore…
The research priority area (RPA) Global Digital Cultures critically explores how digitization is transforming cultural practices around the world, from friendship, intimacy and sexual relations, to the construction, targeting, and surveillance of publics. More information can be found here. The RPA invites seed grant proposals that focus on questions of global digital cultures. Proposals should…
Our ‘event grant’ programme offers faculty, postdocs, and PhDs at the UvA the opportunity to request funding to organise a workshop, network event, exhibition, or small conference, leading to either publications or grant applications. The research priority area (RPA) Global Digital Cultures critically explores how digitisation is transforming cultural practices around the world, from friendship,…