13th Conference of the European Sociological Association Athens, August 29 - September, 1, 2017 Session: RN18_01a_IC: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism.

1. The paradox of
disintermediated knowledge
The unwitting path to marketisation of
educative system
Lorenza Boninu, PhD
Department of Social Sciences
University of Pisa

2. More questions than
answers
How deeply the change of the intellectual role in
the Net dynamics affect the educative practices
and, more specifically, the value of the immaterial
labour in the so-called «platform capitalism»?
May we consider MOOCs an example of
exploitation of «digital labour»?
Is there still space on the Net for his original,
liberating potential (also in the educational
field)?

3. Dematerialization of the «object-
book» as a metaphor:
desacralization of «legitimate
culture»

4. The exploitation of digital
labour

5. MOOCs as example of
«platform capitalism»

6. The «social turn» in the readers’
attitudes

7. New interactions with the
text

8. No more «auctoritas» …

9. Single individuals compete for
visibility

10. Self branding as a matter
of symbolic capital

11. The platforms’ battle for
monopolisation in the Net.

12. Moocs
•The metamorphosis of
the contents
•The role of the users
•The role of the
platforms

13. Moocs as «shop-windows»

14. A special commodity:
knowledge

15. The «post-MOOCs age»

16. The forest of the acronyms
MOOCs

17. Can we recover the original
liberating potential of the
Net?

18. Contacts
I opened a session on Academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/s/7b2c855e8f/the-
paradox-of-disintermediated-knowledge-the-
unwitting-path-to-marketisation-of-educative-
system?source=link
I will be grateful to read your feedbacks!
Email: lorenza.boninu[at]istruzione.it