Dispoc Visiting Scholarship 2022
The seminar of José van Dijck was held on April 12, 2022 and is part of the visiting scholarship program of the 2018-2022 Project of Excellence of the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena.
About the seminar
Online digital platforms, which are overwhelmingly American-based and operated, have penetrated every sector of American and Western-European societies, disrupting markets and labor relations, circumventing institutions, and transforming social and civic practices. This lecture concentrates on the position of European (private and public) interests vis-à-vis the interests of an American online ecosystem, driven by a handful of high-tech corporations (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) that have become global data mining companies. The emerging ‘platform society’ involves an intense struggle between competing ideological systems and contesting societal actors-market, government and civil society-raising important questions like: Who is or should be responsible and accountable for anchoring public values in a platform society? Public values and the common good are the very stakes in the struggle over the platformization of societies around the globe. At the heart of the online media’s industry’s surge is the battle over information control: who owns the data generated by online social activities? Particularly in the European context, governments can be proactive in negotiating public values on behalf of citizens and consumers.
José van Dijck è Distinguished Professor all'Università di Utrecht (Paesi Bassi); è stata presidente dell'Accademia Reale Olandese delle Arti e delle Scienze dal 2015 al 2018. È stata visiting professor al MIT (USA), all'Università di Toronto (CAN), Stockholm University (SVE) e University of Technology, Sydney (AUS). Ha ricevuto un dottorato onorario dall'Università di Lund (SVE). Nel 2022, è stata premiata con il Premio Spinoza, il più alto riconoscimento del mondo accademico olandese.
José van Dijck is a distinguished university professor at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). Her academic discipline is media studies and her field of interest is the ‘digital society.’ She received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, (USA) in 1992. Her work covers a wide range of topics in media theory, media and communication technologies, social media, and digital culture. From 2015-2018, she was the president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also a visiting professor at MIT (Boston), the Annenberg School of Communication (Univ of Pennsylvania) and University of Technology Sydney (AUS). In 2019, she received an honorary doctorate from Lund University (Sweden).
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