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COMING OUT AND COMING UP: QUANTIFYING QUEER IMMATERIAL LABOR

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2023
Like the broader beauty industry, YouTube’s beauty vlogosphere has historically been dominated by gender- and sexually normative White woman. However, in recent years, a new class of racially diverse, queer-identified beauty vloggers have risen to fame on the platform, garnering millions of subscribers and lucrative brand deals.
Ellie Homant, Aspen Russell
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Immaterial Labor and Artistic Production

Rethinking Marxism, 2005
Warren Montag's Louis Althusser is a wonderfully clear introduction to Althusser's thought that demonstrates in particular how his work continues to be useful for literary studies. Montag's most original contribution is that he demonstrates that artistic production is at the center of Althusser's thought.
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Theorising immaterial labor: Toward creativity, co(labor)ation and collective intelligence

Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
Marx developed a sophisticated theory of labour under capitalism’s expanding reproduction but wrote little specifically on immaterial labour.
Michael A. Peters, David Neilson
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Paradoxical Empowerment: Immaterial Labor Translated in a Web of Affective Connections

The Information Society, 2014
This perspective explores the production of user-generated content by contrasting two analyses that are convergent in some respects, divergent in others. In our first line of analysis we use the work of Negri (1996) and Moulier-Boutang (2007) on “cognitive capitalism” to extend some elements explored by Fuchs (2010; 2012) and Arvidsson and Colleoni ...
Lorna Heaton, Serge Proulx
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Immaterial Labor and the Determination of Social Class

Critical Sociology, 2014
In this article the concept of immaterial labor is dialectically related to the cycle of material labor in the production and reproduction of capital and bourgeois society. The article reflects on how this affects the dynamics of social classes and their struggles in contemporary capitalist society.
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Biopolitics, immaterial labor, and subjective dilemmas of China’s data annotators

Labor History
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The Body Immaterial: Magicians’ Assistants and the Performance of Labor

2008
The cliched image of the magician in top hat and tails, clutching a wand in one hand and a rabbit in the other, is, like most traditional iconography, a product of the late Victorian era. In her book Vanishing Women (2003), Karen Beckman describes how magicians adopted this defiantly Western garb partly in reaction to the Indian Mutiny (1857), thereby ...
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Digital unhu: Mobile connectivity and immaterial labor in Zimbabwean artistic expression

New Media & Society, 2017
Through an analysis of two cases of Zimbabwean artistic collaboration and expression, this article proposes the concept “digital unhu” as a useful tool for understanding a Zimbabwean-inflected expression of immaterial labor. This concept is premised on the unprecedented rise of mobile phones in Zimbabwe, and contains three main components, including ...
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Transmedia teens: Affect, immaterial labor, and user-generated content

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2011
The internet offers teens (especially girls, who have embraced social aspects of the web) a voice in the books they read, from reviewing, blogging, and creating fan sites, to actually collaborating on books-in-progress — such as The Amanda Project — by writing portions of the book or suggesting storylines. But while these new means of participation are
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From RandomBuzzers to Figment: Teens’ Affective and Immaterial Labor

2016
Chapter 3 is a case study of Random House’s RandomBuzzers.com (RandomBuzzers, 2011) website. This early participatory site dedicated to the publisher’s teen consumers adds user-generated peer-to-peer reviews to the tradition of librarian-based reviews in journals such as Kirkus, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and the Horn Book. On this site,
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