Together with the wonderful intern, Alya Naura Khairunnisa, with whom I’m working on the project Tracing Social Media Platform Power Over Climate and Sustainability Science, we’re organizing this event at the end of August.
If you come across this post and are interested to attend, send me a message.
Truth and Knowledge in the Future Digital Society
Climate change and other urgent eco-societal crises are complicated by the rise of powerful platform companies. Such tech firms not only provide the spaces and interfaces in/on which information is circulated about these issues, but they also embody the infrastructures and institutions that shape which knowledge is authorized and what value is placed on information. How does the epistemic power of Big Tech influence what we know about the environmental crises of our times? And do we have a sufficient grasp on how platform power shapes which futures become thinkable? At this event, we seek to reflect on these questions as academics knowledge producers, citizens, and with the help of internationally recognized experts whose scholarship has highlighted themes of epistemic power, tech, and its eco-societal stakes.
Adi Kuntsman, Reader in Digital Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University and editor of the book series Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures
Elisabetta Petrucci, PhD Fellow at Roskilde University and author of From Infrastructure Capture to Epistemological Capture: Conceptualizing the Environmental Mindprint of Platforms through Journalistic Knowledge Production (in press)
Helen Pritchard, Associate Professor at University of Plymouth and co-author of We are Tectonic! A Queer Geophysics for Intra-Solidarities and Resisting the Cloud Regime
Sy Taffel, Senior Lecturer at Massey University and author of Postgrowth Digital Futures: Digital Technologies, Degrowth, and Radical Abundance
Donya Alinejad 