[Air-L] New book announcement: Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife

Andrew Herman aherman at wlu.ca
Thu Dec 10 05:23:35 PST 2015


And I am delighted to be assigning this book next year in my Economies of Informational Capitalism seminar!!! :)

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From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Kylie Jarrett
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Subject: [Air-L] New book announcement: Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife

I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book: Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife, available from Routledge.

This book argues for using Marxist feminist theories about the role of domestic work in capitalism to explore the nature of digital media’s consumer labour. In particular, it focuses on the debate about whether users are exploited in and alienated by their online activity or if they do indeed experience unalienated, socially meaningful exchanges, challenging this unhelpful binary. It uses the concept of the Digital Housewife to outline the relationship between the work we do online and the unpaid sphere of social reproduction. It demonstrates how feminist perspectives expand our critique of consumer labour in digital media. In doing so, the Digital Housewife returns feminist inquiry from the margins of political economy and places it at the heart of critical digital media analysis.

Table of contents:

Introduction: From the Mechanical Turk to the Digital Housewife

1. Sexts from Marxists and Other Stories from Digital Media’s Social Factory

2. My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All the Boys to the Yard: A Feminist Critique of the Social Factory

3. Who Says Facebook Friends Are Not Your Real Friends? Alienation and Exploitation in Digital Media

4. Gifts, Commodities and the Economics of Affect

5. I Can Haz False Consciousness? Social Reproduction and Affective Consumer Labour

Conclusion: Beyond Consumer Labour

My apologies for the shameless self-promotion and the absurd cost of the book. Please email me for more information. Contact details available
here: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/kylie-jarrett

Thanks,

Dr. Kylie Jarrett

Department of Media Studies

National University of Ireland Maynooth.

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