VIDEO: Breaking The Frame Interrogating Digital Capitalism #2

Breaking The Frame Interrogating Digital Capitalism #2 

Digital Technology as Heavy Industrial Technology: iSlavery, Conflict and Environmental Destruction 

 September 6th 2017, 7.15pm. Feminist Library meeting room, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW

 Digital technology is often seen as ‘immaterial’ and ‘smart’, defining a new industrial and social paradigm. Yet digital gadgets are produced within an ‘old-fashioned’ highly exploitative regime - conditions in Chinese electronics factories, such as Foxconn, were brought to international attention by a wave of worker suicides in 2010. The industry creates massive environmental destruction, makes a major contribution to climate change and helps generate violence and conflict in Africa.

 Speakers: Jack Linchuan Qiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, author of Goodbye iSlave), will describe the campaign for workers' rights at Foxconn and other Chinese electronics factories.

 Nina Isabella Moeller (Manchester University) will discuss the environmental impact of digital technologies. 

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 Interrogating Digital Capitalism #2: Introduction, Dave King (Breaking the Frame)
 url:https://youtu.be/7xFOncDRVeQ 





 Nina Isabella Moeller (Manchester University) discusses the environmental impact of digital technologies.

url: url: https://youtu.be/GDTfj7Z6kY8



Interrogating Digital Capitalism #2: Jack Linchuan Qiu
 url: https://youtu.be/eawnKD8U2cQ