Transmedia Work Privilege and Precariousness in Digital Modernity
Auteurs : Fast Karin, Jansson Andre
In Transmedia Work? Karin Fast and André Jansson explore several key questions that frame the study of the social and cultural implications of a digital, connected workforce.
How might we understand ?privilege? and ?precariousness? in today?s digitalized work market? What does it mean to be a privileged worker under the so-called connectivity imperative? What are the social and cultural forces that normalize the appropriation of new media in, and beyond, the workplace? These key questions come together in the notion of transmedia work ? a term through which a social critique of work under digital modernity can be formulated. Transmedia work refers to the rise of a new social condition that saturates many different types of work, with various outcomes. In some social groups, and in certain professions, transmedia work is wholeheartedly embraced, while it is questioned and resisted elsewhere. There are also variations in terms of control; who can maintain a sense of mastery over transmedia work and who cannot?
Through interviews with cultural workers, expatriates, and mobile business workers, and ancillary empirical data such as corporate technology and coworking discourse, Transmedia Work is an important addition to the study of mediatization and digital culture.
Chapter 1:
Why transmedia work matters
Chapter 2:
Understanding transmediatization
Chapter 3:
The rise of transmedia work
Chapter 4:
Discourses and materialities of transmedia work
Chapter 5:
Transmedia work as recognition work
Chapter 6:
The social costs of transmedia work
Chapter 7:
How transmedia work changes modern society
Karin Fast is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies and part of the Geomedia Research Group at Karlstad University, Sweden. Her research interests include mediatization, work, transmediality, media geographies, and cultural industries. Her work on labour, mediatization, transmediality, and cultural industries has been published in numerous journals, including Communication Theory; Media, Culture & Society and International Journal of Cultural Studies.
André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and Director of the Geomedia Research Group at Karlstad University, Sweden. His most recent books include Mediatization and Mobile Lives: A Critical Approach (2018) and Cosmopolitanism and the Media: Cartographies of Change (2015, with M. Christensen).
Date de parution : 04-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 04-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Transmedia Work :
Mots-clés :
Coworking Spaces; Media Studies; Family Border Theory; Communication Studies; Undocumented Youth Activists; Mediatization; Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles; media work; Transmedia Technologies; media labour; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; media labor; Vice Versa; the mediatization of culture and society; Communicational Doxa; digital culture; Co-working Spaces; digitalized work market; Digital Modernity; transmedia concept; Transmedia Storytelling; External Service Provider; Recognition Work; Occupational Privilege; ICT Company; De Peuter; Digital Labour; Digital Detox; Social Design; Media Franchises; ICT Corporation; Tv Schedule; Transmedia Texts; Mobile Business; Transmedia Engagement