UID:
almahu_9949385913702882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
0429244592
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9780429534799
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0429534795
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9780429521324
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0429521324
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9780429549496
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0429549490
,
9780429244599
Series Statement:
Digital research in the arts and humanities ; volume 14
Content:
"Humans at Work in the Digital Age explores the roots of twenty-first century cultures of digital textual labor, mapping the diverse physical and cognitive acts involved, and recovering the invisible workers and work that support digital technologies. Drawing on fourteen case studies organized around four sites of work, the book shows how definitions of labor have been influenced by the digital technologies that employees use to produce, interpret, or process text. Incorporating methodology and theory from a range of disciplines and highlighting labor issues related to topics as diverse as census tabulation, market research, electronic games, digital archives and 3D modeling, contributors uncover the roles played by race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics in determining how narratives of digital labor are constructed and erased. Because each chapter is centered on the human cost of digital technologies, however, it is individual people immersed in cultures of technology who are the focus of the volume, rather than the technologies themselves. Humans at Work in the Digital Age shows how humanistic inquiry can be a valuable tool in the emerging conversation surrounding digital textual labor. As such, the book will be essential reading for academics and postgraduate students engaged in the study of digital humanities; human-computer interaction; digital culture and social justice; race, class, gender, and sexuality in digital realms; the economics of the Internet; and technology in higher education"--
Note:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Government -- 1. Racialized surveillance and the US census: tabulating labor / J.D. Schnepf -- 2. Digital labor and trans histories: resisting assigned gender in the early mainframe era / Mar Hicks -- 3. Big data and universal design in The Home Market: are there market researchers in Utopia? / Megan Faragher -- pt. II Industry -- 4. Working in the shadow of the object / Rebecca Perry -- 5. Work, play, and the banality of the digital: boredom as form / Paul Benzon -- 6. Labor, data, and amateur inventor in the age of the Silicon Valley boy billionaire: Edisonade, Zuckerbergade / Nicholas M. Kelly -- 7. Digitizing labor in the Google Books Project: gloved fingertips and severed hands / Andrea Zeffiro -- pt. III Out of the office -- 8. Reading women's labor in the cybernetic seventies: vital work / Madeleine Monson-Rosen -- 9. The economy of online comments / John R. Gallagher -- pt. IV University -- 10. The digital labor of blended learning: the Reading Cities project / Elizabeth Rodrigues -- 11. Using video games to test the boundaries between work, play, and cultural criticism: the labor of critique / Matthew Kelly -- 12.(Re)canonizing world literature with digital archives and online magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China / Jessica Siu-Yin Yeung -- 13. The stakes of digital labor in the twenty-first-century academy: the revolution will not be Turkified / Roopika Risam -- 14. Scaling black feminisms: a critical discussion about the digital labor of representation / Alexandria Lockett.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Humans at work in the digital age. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367199982
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429244599
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