The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media

ISBN-13: 9780415837446 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 418 str.

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Opis

Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry s high-tech trash. "The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media" is the first book to bring together representative research from the diverse body of scholarly work surrounding this often fragmentary field, and seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the study and teaching of media and labor. Essays examine work on the mostly unglamorous side of media and cultural production, technology manufacture, and every occupation in between.

Specifically, this book features:

-wide-ranging international case studies spanning the major global hubs of media labor;

-interdisciplinary approaches for thinking about and analyzing class and labor in information communication technology (ICT), consumer electronics (CE), and media/cultural production;

-an overview of global political economic conditions affecting media workers;

-reports on chemical environments and their effect on the health of media workers and consumers;

-activist scholarship on media and labor, and inspiring stories of resistance and solidarity."

Spis treści

Foreword  Janet Wasko Introduction  Richard Maxwell  I. The Changing Face of Media Labor: Networks, Clouds, and Digitalized Work  1. Labor and Digital Capitalism  Dan Schiller 2. Working (or not) in the Cloud: Chains of Accumulation and Chains of Resistance  Vincent Mosco 3. Exploitation and Media Labor  David Hesmondhalgh 4. Mediations of Labor: Algorithmic Architectures, Logistical Media, and the Rise of Black Box Politics  Soenke Zehle and Ned Rossiter 5. Dallas Smythe and Digital Labor  Christian Fuchs II. The Chemical Impact on Media Workers  6. The Body Burden – Toxics, Stresses and Biophysical Health Elizabeth Grossman  7. Health and Safety Policies for Electronics Workers Ted Smith and Chad Raphael  III. Media Labor around the World  8. Workers of the World, Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose but Your (Global Value) Chains: The NICL Revisited Toby Miller  9. Embracing Communication: China’s Post-2008 Economic Restructuring and Labor Yu Hong and Wei Wang  10. "Free Birds" The New Precariat in India’s Mobile Phone Manufacturing Anibel Ferus-Comelo  11. Behind The Line: Information Privatization and the Reification of Work in the Call Center of a Brazilian State-Owned Telecommunication Company Simone Wolff  12. The Creative in the Middle: Knowledge Workers in a Medium-sized Company in Spain Luis Reygadas  13. The Exceptional Intermittents du spectacle: Hyperflexibility as the Avant-Garde of Labor Security in France Jonathan Buchsbaum  14. UK Art Workers, Class, and the Myth of Mobility Mark Banks and Kate Oakley  15. The Unfunny Tale of Labor and Cartooning in the US and around the World John Lent  16. The Straw that Broke the Tiger’s Back? Skilled Labor, Social Networks and Protest in the Digital Workshops of the World Leon Gurevitch  17. Crisis or Innovation? The Norwegian Journalist between Market and Ideals in the Multimedia Era Rune Ottosen  18. History of the International Movement of Journalists: Shifting Drives of Profession, Labor and Politics Frank Beyersdorf and Kaarle Nordenstreng  19. The Planned Obsolescence of TV Journalism Gerald Sussman and Carey L. Higgins-Dobney  20. Student Media Labor in the Digital Age: MediaNOLA in the Classroom and the University Vicki Mayer and Jocelyn Horner  21. The Work of Wearing Cameras: Body-Worn Devices and Police Media Labor Kelly Gates  IV. Activism, Organization, Worker Resistance, and Media Labor’s Future  22. The GoodElectronics Network: Making IT Fair? Pauline Overeem, GoodElectronics with Vicky Anning  23. The Work of the Centro de Reflexión y Acción Laboral Pedro Reyes for the Centro de Reflexión y Acción Laboral en Guadalajara  24. Chinese Labor Protest and Trade Unions Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, and Mark Selden  25. Locating Worker-Generated Content (WGC) in the World’s Factory Jack Linchuan Qiu  26. Labor Messaging: Practices of Autonomous Communication Enda Brophy, Nicole Cohen, and Greig de Peuter  27. The Future of Activism for Electronics Workers Chad Raphael and Ted Smith

O autorze

Richard Maxwell is Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. His research has focused on international communication and media, political economy and media, surveillance and data protection, and the environmental impact of media. His recent publications include Media and the Ecological Crisis and Greening the Media.