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Tag: Labor

Workers of the World BeReal!: BeReal and The Performance of Labor
Emily Lynell Edwards / St. Francis College

February 10, 2023 Emily Lynell Edwards / St. Francis College 2 comments

Emily Lynell Edwards explores how office or knowledge work is performed on BeReal. Edwards cautiously explores the consciousness-raising potentials of these performances of work within the platform to illustrate how BeReal reflects broader shifts in contemporary labor politics.

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Born into Failure: Disrupting Narratives of the WNBA Through Remembrance of the abl
Dafna Kaufman / University of North carolina at Chapel Hill

February 6, 2022 Dafna Kaufman / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 7 comments

Dafna Kaufman explores media representation of the American Basketball League, positing it was born into failure well before the creation of the WNBA.

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Black Widow Won’t Save You: Labor and the Streaming Frontier
Kate fortmueller / University of Georgia

November 16, 2021 Kate Fortmueller / University of Georgia 5 comments

Kate Fortmueller explores the ramifications of contemporary labor conflicts on the entertainment industry in the digital landscape.

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“Life Is Business and Business Is Life”: The Big Shot with Bethenny and the Social Factory
Ryan David Briggs / University of texas at austin

August 10, 2021 Ryan David Briggs / University of Texas at Austin 3 comments

Ryan David Briggs describes how The Big Shot with Bethenny reflects the increasing demands of the real world job search.

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Combatting Crunch from the Margins: How Hierarchies of “Realness” Complicate Video Game Production
Amanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris / UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

April 5, 2021 Amanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris / University of Oregon 2 comments

Amanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris discuss the myth of high-quality video games coming as a result of overworked video game developers.

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Complaint as Diversity Work in Sports Media
Courtney M. Cox / University of Southern California

April 27, 2019 Courtney M. Cox / University of Southern California Leave a comment

Drawing from her own experiences working for ESPN and applying Sara Ahmed’s concept of “complaint as diversity work,” Courtney M. Cox interrogates the lack of diversity in sports media and offers a multi-pronged approach to improving inclusivity in a notoriously white male industry.

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Just Saying No: Labour, Gender, and Refusal in Twitch Streaming
Alison Harvey / University of Leicester

January 29, 2019 Alison Harvey / University of Leicester Leave a comment

Alison Harvey contextualizes Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’ refusal to stream with female gamers within digital culture practices and historically gendered patterns of labour.

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The Female Labor of Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair Playing House
Kelly Kessler / DePaul University

January 29, 2019 Kelly Kessler 2 comments

Kelly Kessler considers Playing House and the considerable labor performed by its creator/stars Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Claire to nurture the program’s content, advertisers, and fans.

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The Labor of Transformation: Spaces of Feminine Imperfection in YouTube Makeup Tutorials
Elizabeth Affuso / Pitzer College

November 27, 2017 Elizabeth Affuso / Pitzer College 2 comments

Elizabeth Affuso examines the make-up tutorial video as a postfeminist genre which makes visible the hidden labor of aspirational beauty.

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Robots in Popular Culture: Labor Precarity and Machine Cute
Anthony P. McIntyre / University College Dublin

February 27, 2017 Anthony P. McIntyre / University College Dublin 3 comments

Anthony P. McIntyre reflects on cultural representations of robots as cute in recent films and media, relating such constructions to contemporary capitalist labor dynamics and threats.

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20 Sep

New in Over*Flow: @renherold and @cinefeminism examine the deconstruction of cis gay masculinity in the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros, reassessing its "bad object" status. Read more here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/09/over-flow-gender-sex-bros/

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NOPE is about the eye of the camera, but also Black defiance of it. Read Sophia Abbey's brief but excellent piece at @FlowTV, "Gazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope." #OpenAccess
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Happy Tuesday, and happy Volume 29.07 release day! The final issue of Flow in the spring features work from @baker_r_r, @Naledgesince82, @caitmckinney, @MichaelSocolow, and Michele White! Read the full issue here: http://flowjournal.org

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TGIF!! Celebrate by reading vol. 29.06-up on the site now. Thx to @jenholt13 @rebeccasholt @kevindriscoll and @TrueIcaRash for their contributions!!

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