Protected: Parallel Hierarchies: Navigating Assistantship in Hollywood’s Above and Below the Line Divide
Kiah Bennett / Muhlenberg College
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Protected: Parallel Hierarchies: Navigating Assistantship in Hollywood’s Above and Below the Line Divide
Workers of the World BeReal!: BeReal and The Performance of Labor
Emily Lynell Edwards / St. Francis College
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.
Read moreBorn into Failure: Disrupting Narratives of the WNBA Through Remembrance of the abl
Dafna Kaufman / University of North carolina at Chapel Hill
Dafna Kaufman explores media representation of the American Basketball League, positing it was born into failure well before the creation of the WNBA.
Read moreBlack Widow Won’t Save You: Labor and the Streaming Frontier
Kate fortmueller / University of Georgia
Kate Fortmueller explores the ramifications of contemporary labor conflicts on the entertainment industry in the digital landscape.
Read more“Life Is Business and Business Is Life”: The Big Shot with Bethenny and the Social Factory
Ryan David Briggs / University of texas at austin
Ryan David Briggs describes how The Big Shot with Bethenny reflects the increasing demands of the real world job search.
Read moreCombatting Crunch from the Margins: How Hierarchies of “Realness” Complicate Video Game Production
Amanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris / UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Amanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris discuss the myth of high-quality video games coming as a result of overworked video game developers.
Read moreComplaint as Diversity Work in Sports Media
Courtney M. Cox / University of Southern California
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.
Read moreJust Saying No: Labour, Gender, and Refusal in Twitch Streaming
Alison Harvey / University of Leicester
Alison Harvey contextualizes Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’ refusal to stream with female gamers within digital culture practices and historically gendered patterns of labour.
The Female Labor of Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair Playing House
Kelly Kessler / DePaul University
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.
Read moreThe Labor of Transformation: Spaces of Feminine Imperfection in YouTube Makeup Tutorials
Elizabeth Affuso / Pitzer College
Elizabeth Affuso examines the make-up tutorial video as a postfeminist genre which makes visible the hidden labor of aspirational beauty.
Read moreRobots in Popular Culture: Labor Precarity and Machine Cute
Anthony P. McIntyre / University College Dublin
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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