Jarrett Feminism, Labour and Digital Media

The Digital Housewife
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-51798-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

This book offers an original contribution to the exploration of consumer labour in digital media. It locates Marxist Feminist interpretations of domestic work at the centre of this discussion, providing a richer framework for understanding digital media economics. The argument critiques existing theories about the exploitative and alienating effects of the commercialisation of those user activities that serve as unpaid content production and valuable audience data. It applies feminist perspectives on domestic work to the interpretation of this activity, thereby conceptualising it in ways that enable consumer labour to be almost simultaneously exploited and socially meaningful. It is illustrated throughout with varied examples of contemporary digital media practices, focussing primarily on social media sites and their uses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jarrett, Kylie

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 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 Aren’t Real Friends?": Exploitation and Alienation in Digital Media 4. The Economics of Affect 5. Uses of Use-Value: The Digital Housewife and Reproducing Society Conclusion: "I Can Haz False Consciousness"?

Über Autor(innen)

Kylie Jarrett is Lecturer in the Centre for Media Studies at the National University of Ireland Maynooth