Tanner Mirrlees

Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a first of its kind critical inter-disciplinary introduction to the economic, political, cultural, and technological dimensions of work in the rapidly growing digital media and entertainment industries (DMEI).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040044667
• Artikelnr.: 72335775

Autorenporträt

Tanner Mirrlees is the current Director of the Communication and Digital Media Studies program in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, where he has been teaching the Work in the Creative and Tech Industries course for over a decade. He is the author of numerous publications, including Global Entertainment Media (2013), Hearts and Mines: The US Empire's Cultural Industry (2016), and EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About "Being Creative" and Love the "Labour Turn" 1. What is Work? Meanings
Matters
Motivations 2. What are the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries (DMEI)? 15 Convergent Industry Groups
Central to Modern Work in the Digital Society 3. What is Research on Work in the DMEI? A Toolkit for Labor Theory and Method 4. 6. What is the Management of Work in the DMEI? Putting Leadership Power
Decision-Making Power
Soft Power
Hard Power
and Market Power to Work On Workers 7. Is Meritocracy at Work in the DMEI? Intersectionality and Inequality
with Distinction 8. e 9. 10. 11. Is Work in the DMEI 'Free'? Advertising
Audience Commodities
Social Media Users
Brand Loyal Fans
Crowdsourced Task-Takers
Interns and Athletes 12. What Are Workers Doing to Make the DMEI's Future of Work Better for All? Collective Action