Peer2Politics

Here is an opportunity to meet projects working for the commons all over Europe and a chance for a 10.000 euros R&D grant for the projects selected. Deadline to send proposals: 13 April 2015.

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Special themed issue on The Precariousness of Knowledge Workers: hybridisation, marketisation and subjectification in global value chains.

Citizen science, the direct participation of citizens in scientific projects, has grown rapidly in recent years.

The notion of ‘knowledge worker’ has become the focus of a rich range of debates in a variety of scientific approaches and disciplines, from sociology to economics, from political science to neomarxism, all offering their own particular conceptual tools and perspectives.Unlike the traditional professions that were consolidated in the last century, 21st knowledge work is undergoing a process of  hybridisation. With a growing variety of different types of work contract, knowledge workers constitute a type of professional work that is

Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of their integration in the urban physical context. It aims to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among experts drawn from academia, as well as researchers, artists, designers, advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively involved in addressing questions on the nature of the technologically mediated urban activity and experience. The second installment of the Hybrid City, that took place in 2013 boasted seven keynote speakers, sixty-eight paper presentations and diverse parallel events, that were documented in the printed volume of proceedings.