Convegno V-DATA - "The value of digital data: enhancing citizens’ awareness and voice about surveillance capitalism" 7-8 September 2023.

7 September

10:00 AM Registration opens
11:00 AM Welcome and openings
11:00 Institutional Welcome
11:10 Alessandro Caliandro – Surveillance capitalism, privacy and beyond
11:25 Emma Garavaglia and Guildor – The V-DATA Project
11:40 Guido Legnante – The value of digital data: issues and perspectives
11:50 Emma Garavaglia – Organizational information about the Conference
12:00 PM Light Lunch

1:00 PM
Session 1 - Resistance & Countersurveillance | Aula B – Chair: Veronica Moretti

• Lucio Pereira Mello - Battle for platform regulation in Brazil: mapping data as political strategy
• John Boy - Practical Rejections of Surveillance Capitalist Platforms and Their Directions
• Matteo Adamoli, Tiziana Piccioni - Practices of resistance in digital third spaces: critical aspects of the platformisation during the pandemic in high education
• Milana Pisarić - Digital Surveillance State vs. Digital Privacy Rights

Session 2 - Theory | Aula Grande – Chair: Alessandro Caliandro

• Gianmarco Cristofari: A comparative historical account of value production inside digital platforms
• Adam Arvidsson: The Question of the Digital in the Anthropocene
  Dario Pizzul, Alessandro Caliandro: A systematic literature review of surveillance
• capitalism: towards an empirical research agenda
• Guido Anselmi: Yet another round of disruption: the imaginary of LLMs in social and legacy media

3:00 PM Break

3:30 PM Keynote Speech
Stefania Milan, Professor of Critical Data Studies at the University of Amsterdam | Aula Grande

4:30 PM
Session 3 – Awareness | Aula B – Chair: Marco Gui

• Salvatore Romano, Davide Beraldo, Ilir Rama: The Impact of TikTok Policies on Information Flows during Times of War: Evidence of ‘Splinternet’ and ‘Shadow-Promotion’ in Russia
• Susanna Sassi, Guido Legnante: How media and journalism represent surveillance capitalism in Italy
• Claudio Bellinzona: The future of smart cities in the context of surveillance capitalism. The case of Dubai
• Isabela Rosal Santos: The regulation of data brokers in Europe: solutions presented by the new regulation

7:30 PM Social dinner | Horti, Lungo Ticino Sforza, 46, 27100 Pavia

8 September

9:00 AM
Session 5 - Activism| Aula B – Chair: Alessandro Caliandro

• Alice di Leva, Emma Garavaglia, Annavittoria Sarli: Social injustice in surveillance capitalism:reflections on the Italian context
• Annika Richterich: Who values Data Minimalism? On Solidarity in Feminist Data Activism
• Peter Mechant, Sander Van Damme, Marteen de Mildt, Steven Dewaele, Laurens Vandercruysse:Personal Data Stores and data cooperatives: a two-pronged, sociotechnical approach for data activism
• Michele Veneziano: Monitoring public administrations to fight surveillance capitalism: Practices and imaginaries of an Italian tech watchdog

Session 6 - Algorithms | Aula Grande – Chair: Dario Pizzul

• Massimo Airoldi and Tiziano Bonini: Capturing habitus: how algorithms extract value from platformized culture
• Natalia Stanusch: Memeing Algorithmic Imaginaries: How Users Fight against and Comply with Recommendation Algorithms Using Data
• Davide Beraldo, Massimo Airoldi, Sander van Haperen and Stefania Milan: Algorithms as Cultural Objects: mapping algorithmic imaginaries on Twitter
• Luca Giuffrè: Algorithm Literacy at School: teenagers reasoning of algorithm-mediated experiences

11:00 PM Coffee Break

11:30 PM
Session 7 – Work & cultural production | Aula B – Chair: Natalia

• Alessandro Gandini, Marianna d’Ovidio, Ilir Rama: Community, cultural production and the pandemic
• Josephine West: Sex, Power and Surveillance Capitalism in the Multi-Billion Dollar Camming Sector
• Emma Garavaglia, Annavittoria Sarli, Francesco Diodati: Carework platforms in Italy: a qualitative research

Session 8 - Family & parenting| Aula Grande – Chair: Alessandro Caliandro

• Julie Dereymaeker, Tom De Leyn, Ralf De Wolf: Datafied families and parental surveillance bydefault? Exploring parental care and surveillance in the construction of smart home technology
• Mathias Klang: Parental Panopticons and Everyday Resistance: Domestic Surveillance and young adults