Feminism, Labour and Digital Media The Digital Housewife

ISBN-13: 9781138575660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 180 str.

Kylie (National University of Ireland Maynooth) Jarrett

Opis

This book uses Marxist feminist perspectives on domestic work to interrogate the social, political and economic role of digital media consumers’ labour.

Spis treści

Introduction: From the Mechanical Turk to the Digital Housewife  1. Sexts from Marxists and Other Stories from Digital Media’s Social Factory  2. My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All the Boys to the Yard: A Feminist Critique of the Social Factory  3. Who Says Facebook Friends Are Not Your Real Friends? Alienation and Exploitation in Digital Media  4. Gifts, Commodities and the Economics of Affect  5. I Can Haz False Consciousness? Social Reproduction and Affective Consumer Labour  Conclusion: Beyond Consumer Labour

O autorze

Kylie Jarrett is Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. With Ken Hillis and Michael Petit, she is co-author of Google and the Culture of Search and has researched a range of other commercial web platforms such as eBay, YouTube and Facebook.