Schedule
2009
Sunday, October 18th
9:30 AM

Authorship and Attribution in the Digital Age

Catherine Fisk, University of California at Irvine

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Learning to Immaterial Labour: Notes from the Field of Digital Academe

Bob Hanke, York University

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

The Mobilization of Online Labour: oDesk and Internet Outsourcing

Brett Caraway, University of Texas at Austin

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

The Specificity of Creative Labour: Problems of Cultural Studies and Political Economy in the Recent Turn to Cultural Work

David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
12:30 PM

A New Vision for Library Workers in the Global South?: A View from India

Ajit Pyati, The University of Western Ontario

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Constructive Digital Labour in Restricted Media Environments: A Southeast Asian Case Study

Sandra Smeltzer, The University of Western Ontario
Daniel J. Paré, University of Ottawa

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Cynical Performances: Corporate Improvisation Training in the Post-Fordist Workplace

Trent Cruz, The University of Western Ontario

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Exporting New Social Relations of Production One Machine at a Time: Gates’ International Library Philanthropy

Siobhan Stevenson, University of Toronto

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

The Creative Worker as Flagship of the New Spirit of Capitalism? Diversity among Creative Workers of Four Multimedia Sectors in Montreal

Damien Charrieras, Université de Montréal

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

The Digital Touch: Craftwork, Gender and Tactile Media

Jack Bratich, Rutgers University

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

The Self-regulation of Web Designers

Helen Kennedy, University of Leeds

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
3:00 PM

Alternate and Immanent Critiques: Collectivities and Serious Gaming in Alternate Reality Games

Owen Livermore, The University of Western Ontario

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Blogging the Writers’ Strike: Crossing Boundaries of Interaction and Engagement for Collective Action

Nina O’Brien, University of Southern California

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

“Free Labour” in “Free Time”: Prosumption, Digital Technologies and the Commodification of Time

Edward Comor, The University of Western Ontario

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Listeners Labeling: Tagging, Folksonomy, and the Use of Users in the Online Indexation of Music

Adrian Dusanowskyj, Carleton University

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Mobile Audience Commodities? Situating the Convergence of Work and Play in the Era of Ubiquitous Connectivity

Vincent Manzerolle, The University of Western Ontario

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

News Commoners and Counter-planning

Dorothy Kidd, University of San Francisco

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

The Copyright Policy Paradox: Overcoming Competing Agendas within the Digital Labour Movement

Samuel E. Trosow, The University of Western Ontario

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM

Roundtable – Digital Labour: Looking ahead

Catherine McKercher, Carleton University
David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds
Lise Lareau, Canadian Media Guild
Richard Hardacre, Past President of the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)
Mike Kraft, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild
Mark Bradley, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM