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SUMMARY:Trade unions\, digital transformations and power - Torsten Geelan 
 (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20171115T171500Z
DTEND:20171115T184500Z
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CONTACT:Waseem Yaqoob
DESCRIPTION:venue: https://goo.gl/eNE64v\n\nSince their birth\, trade unio
 ns have used many methods to communicate with workers\, and fought struggl
 es over the ownership and use of the means of communication. Now the inter
 net and mass self-communication networks like social media provide new cha
 llenges and opportunities. \n\nOn the one hand\, corporate power dominates
  the digital age\, whether through privately owned companies like Facebook
  or Twitter that prioritise advertising and consumption\, or ‘sharing ec
 onomy’ platforms that transform the traditional economy\, cutting labour
  costs and developing new forms of exploitation. States and employers have
  also used digital data gathering to curtail protest. On the other hand\, 
 trade unions and worker organisations use the internet to create new forms
  of solidarity and to circumvent an often-hostile media to communicate wit
 h union members\, workers\, the unemployed and the wider public.\n\nThis s
 eminar explores the challenges and opportunities for worker voice in the d
 igital age\, through three talks and a discussion:\n\nTorsten Geelan (Soci
 ology\, Cambridge)\, 'The Combustible Mix of Coalitional Power and Digital
  Media: The Case of the People’s Assembly Against Austerity in the UK'\n
 \nLina Dencik (Cardiff School of Journalism\, Media and Cultural Studies)\
 , 'Digital Activism and the Political Culture of Trade Unionism'\n\nAlex J
 . Wood (Oxford Internet Institute)\, 'The Digital Fragmentation of Work: L
 abour Solidarity and Action in a Gig Economy'\n\n*Torsten Geelan* recently
  completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. His resear
 ch focuses on the changing relationship between trade unions\, the media a
 nd power in Denmark and the United Kingdom. He is currently a Guest Resear
 cher at the Employment Relations Research Centre\, University of Copenhage
 n\, where he is developing an independent three-year project investigating
  the role of digital media in trade union revitalisation. See: http://rese
 arch.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-torsten-geelan.\n\n*Lina Dencik* is Se
 nior Lecturer at Cardiff's School of Journalism\, Media and Cultural Studi
 es. Her research concerns the interplay between media developments and soc
 ial and political change\, with a particular focus on resistance and globa
 lisation. Recently\, she has moved into the areas of digital surveillance 
 and the politics of data. See: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/182924
 -dencik-lina.\n\n*Alex J. Wood* is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Oxfor
 d Internet Institute. He is a sociologist of work and employment\, focusin
 g on the changing nature of employment relations and labour market transfo
 rmation. Alex is currently researching new forms of worker voice and colle
 ctive action in the online gig economy as part of the iLabour project. See
 : www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/alex-j-wood.\n\nPart of Cambridge-Anglia Ruskin
 ’s UCU Trade Union and Labour History series\, co-sponsored by the journ
 al Renewal (www.renewal.org.uk) Subscribe to our Youtube channel here: htt
 ps://goo.gl/A2R9Td.
LOCATION:Room 4\, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms\, 8 Mill Lane\, Cambridge
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