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SUMMARY:The Network Social Abstraction: for a Genealogy of the Computation
 al Social Sciences | Professor Tiziana Terranova - Professor Tiziana Terra
 nova (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”\, Italy)
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DESCRIPTION:This talk considers the rise of the computational social scien
 ces as a correlate of the subsumption of the Internet under the Corporate 
 Platform Complex since the 2010s – and the corresponding transformation 
 of the definition of social computing from the production of software as s
 ocial tool to “the ability to process the content generated by social in
 teraction and feed the results of that processing back into the system” 
 (T. Eriksson). As a result of this shift\, we have witnessed the re-config
 uration of the social as a form of secular abstraction inaugurated by the 
 eighteenth century moral philosophers’ imitation of the methods of the n
 atural sciences (M. Poovey). The talk addresses some of the crucial elemen
 ts in the genealogical formation of the modern social and the political an
 d cultural implications of the rise of contemporary forms of social comput
 ing.\n\nAbout the speaker:\nTiziana Terranova is Professor in Cultural Stu
 dies and Digital Media in the Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali at t
 he Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”\, Italy. Her research interes
 ts concern the general intersection between science\, technology\, communi
 cation and culture from the perspective of critical theory and cultural st
 udies. She is the author of Network Culture: Politics for the Information 
 Age (Pluto Press\, 2004)\; After the Internet: Digital Networks between Ca
 pital and the Common (Semiotexte/MIT Press\, 2022) and the forthcoming Net
 work Social: on the Return of the Social in the Post-Digital Age (Minnesot
 a University Press). She is a member of the editorial boards of the journa
 ls Theory\, Culture and Society (Sage)\, Media Theory\, Subjectivity (Palg
 rave)\, and Studi Culturali (Il Mulino). She is also a member of the Centr
 e for Postcolonial and Gender Studies at L’Orientale\, and co-founder of
  the Critical Computation Bureau (CCB)\, and of the Centro di Ricerca Inte
 runiversitario sulle Tecnoculture Transnazionali (CRiTT).\n\nIf you have s
 pecific accessibility needs for this event please get in touch via comms.e
 vents@cdh.cam.ac.uk and we will do our best to accommodate any requests. T
 he talk will last for around an hour and a drinks reception will follow.\n
 \n\n
LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Corpus Christi College\, Bene't Street (
 next to the Eagle pub)
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