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From: Association for Cultural Studies [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alison Hearn [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: [ACS] ephemera: Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens
With apologies for any cross-listing.
The Digital Labour Group in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and /ephemera: theory and politics in organization/ are pleased to announce the arrival of Volume 10: 3-4:
/Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens/
Edited by Jonathan Burston, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alison Hearn
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/
Born out of the conference of the same name held in the fall of 2009 at the University of Western Ontario, this special double issue of /ephemera/ addresses the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in practice, politics, policy, culture, and theoretical enquiry. As workers, as authors, and as citizens, we are increasingly summoned and disciplined by new digital technologies that define the workplace and produce ever more complex regimes of surveillance and control. At the same time, new possibilities for agency and new spaces for collectivity are borne from these multiplying digital innovations. This volume explores this social dialectic, with a specific focus on new forms of labour. Papers examine the histories and theories of digital capitalism, foundational assumptions in debates about digital labour, issues of intellectual property and copyright, material changes in the digital workplace, transnational perspectives on digital labour, the issue of free labour and new definitions of work, and struggles and contests on the scene of digital production. Contributors include Brian Holmes, Andrea Fumagalli and Cristina Morini, David Hesmondhalgh, Ursula Huws, Barry King, Jack Bratich, Enda Brophy and many others. This issue also contains vital contributions from union and guild activists hailing from the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association and the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT).
The Digital Labour Group: Jonathan Burston, Edward Comor, James Compton, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alison Hearn, Ajit Pyati, Sandra Smeltzer, Matt Stahl, Samuel E. Trosow.
Contents:
Brian Holmes - Is it written in the stars? Global finance, precarious
destinies
Cristina Morini and Andrea Fumagalli - Life put to work: Towards a life
theory of value
Emanuele Leonardi - The imprimatur of capital: Gilbert Simondon and the
hypothesis of cognitive capitalism
David Hesmondhalgh - User-generated content, free labour and the
cultural industries
Barry King - On the new dignity of labour
Jack Bratich - The digital touch: Craft-work as immaterial labour and
ontological accumulation
Sam Trosow - The copyright policy paradox: Overcoming competing agendas
in the digital labour movement
Matt Stahl - Primitive accumulation, the social common, and the
contractual lockdown of recording artists at the threshold
Michael McNally - Enterprise content management systems and the
application of Taylorism and Fordism to intellectual labour
Helen Kennedy - The successful self-regulation of web designers
Sandra Smeltzer and Daniel J. Paré - The labour of ICT4D: Whither the
separation of carriage and content?
Ajit Pyati - Re-envisioning the ‘knowledge society’ in India: Resisting
neoliberalism and the case for the 'public'
Alison Hearn - Structuring feeling: Web 2.0, online ranking and rating,
and the digital 'reputation' economy
Edward Comor - Digital prosumption and alienation
Vincent Manzerolle Mobilizing the audience commodity: Digital labour in
a wireless world
Enda Brophy - The subterranean stream: Communicative capitalism and call
centre labour
Nick Dyer-Witheford - Digital labour and species-being
Ursula Huws - Expression and expropriation: The dialectics of autonomy
and control in creative labour
Lise Lareau - The impact of digital technology on media workers: Life
has completely changed
Mark Bradley - What about citizens?
Mike Kraft - The singularity of intellectual property
Melanie Mills - Information workers in the academy: The case of
librarians and archivists at The University of Western Ontario
Paul Jones - Digital labour in the academic context: Challenges for
academic staff associations
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Alison Hearn,
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Media Studies Graduate Program
Faculty of Information and Media Studies,
North Campus Building,
University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario
Canada
N6A 5B7
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 81228
email: [log in to unmask]
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