This collection of new essays explores the cultures, social organisation, work practices and belief systems of media practitioners. Sections result from a combination of situated fieldwork, empirical or from-the-ground-up studies and critical analysis.
This collection of new essays explores the cultures, social organisation, work practices and belief systems of media practitioners. Sections result fr...
Below the Line illuminates the hidden labor of people who not only produce things that the television industry needs, such as a bit of content or a policy sound bite, but also produce themselves in the service of capital expansion. Vicki Mayer considers the work of television set assemblers, soft-core cameramen, reality-program casters, and public-access and cable commissioners in relation to the globalized economy of the television industry. She shows that these workers are increasingly engaged in professional and creative work, unsettling the industry s mythological account of itself...
Below the Line illuminates the hidden labor of people who not only produce things that the television industry needs, such as a bit of content ...