Chair: Victor Pickard (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Presentations:
Andrew Herman (Wilfrid Laurier University), Vincent Manzerolle (University of Windsor) & Brett Caraway (University of Toronto, Canada): There is No Snow in Silicon Valley: Materialities of Informational Capitalism in a Canadian Digital Tech Cluster
Geoff Ostrove (University of Oregon, USA): Privatizing Portland’s Planning Processes: The Political Economy of Urban Communication Technologies (UCTs)
Marcus Jonathan Breen (Boston College, United States): Taxing Justice: U.S. ICT firms, Global Finance and De-funding the Public
Indranil Chakraborty (University of Western Ontario, Canada): The Universe of Underclass in the Flat World of Information, Communication and Technology
Sanjay Bharthur (University of Hyderabad, India): SITE to Digital India: The dynamics of Political Economy-Is it a case of triumph of Hegemony or tactical positioning as a New Economic leader?