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

Christian Fuchs christian.fuchs at uti.at
Thu Dec 10 05:52:40 PST 2015


Congratulations, Kylie!

If someone on the list wants to review the book for www.triple-c.at, 
then please e-mail me...

Best, Christian

On 10/12/2015 09:30, Kylie Jarrett wrote:
> 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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