Several companies are investing in digital technology to improve urban infrastructure, reduce costs, and enhance the overall quality of public and private services. Based on sharing economy, these companies seek to optimize resources through the redistribution, sharing, and reuse of…
CCA Conference Paper: Uber’s Dysfunctional Discourse of Technological Disruption
During the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference 2016 (Calgary, Canada), I presented the paper “Accelerating Sharing Economy: Uber’s Dysfunctional Discourse of Technological Disruption”. Below you will find the abstract, my slides, and the link the completed version of this paper.…
Too fast, too furious
Incomplete thoughts about accelerationism: A project to overcome capitalism or a bunch of white-male-rich boys seeking to get profit and control the world? (update: later expanded and refined to be used in a conference paper: http://luciano.fluxo.art.br/accelerating-sharing-economy-ubers-dysfunctional-discourse-of-technological-disruption/) The “#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for…