The programme of the 59th ITH conference (September 26-28, 2024) is online!🥳 ith.or.at/wp-content/upl… Register now and listen and discuss with us this years topic "Worlds of Digital Labour"🖥️💾🤖 Stadt Linz, AK Österreich, Institut für Historische Sozialforschung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

The hard copy has arrived! Thrilled to be part of this carefully edited volume born out of the 2021 ITH conference.

Friendly reminder for the Early-🐦 registration for this year's ITH Conference on the "Worlds of Digital Labour", 26.-28. September 2024, Linz, Austria. ith.or.at/en/59th-ith-co…

Until August 16, 2024 you can register for the 59th ITH-conference (September 26-28, 2024). Check out the program and come to Linz to listen to the "Worlds of Digital Labour". ith.or.at/en/59th-ith-co… Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung FES history | @feshistory.bsky.social Stadt Linz AK Österreich Institut für Historische Sozialforschung 🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

We are ready to start tomorrow the 59th ITH-Conference on the topic "Worlds of Digital Labour".

With a wonderful late summer day here in Linz we start the 59th ITH-Conference 2024. 🍂

The 59th ITH-Conference is officially opened by the ITH-President Therese Garstenauer. We are honoured to welcome Mar Hicks (Mar Hicks; University of Virginia) delivering her keynote lecture on "Rethinking Histories of Labour and Computing".

Today we start with an Opening lecture by Jamie (Kings College London) on the topic: "Game Worker Solidarity: mapping collective action in the games industry".

After a wonderful lunch we continue with the panel "Self-Made Entrepreneurship and Home Computing" with a paper by Jaroslav Švelch (Jaroslav Švelch, Charles University Prague).

Up to the next panel "Office Work and the Rise of the Service Industry” with contributions of Anna Baumann (University of Berne), Christiane Berth (University of Graz) and Bridget Kenny (University of the Witwatersrand).

"Digital Literacy: Computer Education and Training for the Future" is our fourth panel, including papers of Tim Schinschick (Georg-Eckert-Institut Braunschweig), Anna Katharina Osterlow (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po) and Walpurga Friedl/Ernst Langthaler (JKU Linz).

We continue today with a panel on "Automation dreams and fears: Computing and Programming in the 20th and 21st century" with papers by Timo Leimbach (Aarhus University) and Michele Santoro (University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’).

We are taking a coffee break and enjoy the view ("Weitblick") over Linz.

In our last panel "New challenges and old problems? Digital Platforms: Delivery & Transportation" Lucas Santos Souza (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro) will present his paper.

We are finishing the 59th ITH-Conference with a concluding debate, chaired by @glebalbert (Lucerne), @JuliaGErdogan (Berlin), Michael Homberg (Potsdam), Stefan Müller | [email protected] (Bonn), Martin Schmitt (Paderborn) and Therese Garstenauer (Vienna).

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