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SUMMARY:OXDEG: ‘Don’t forget to like\, subscribe and turn on the bell notifications’
DESCRIPTION:“We are delighted to welcome Zoë Glatt for an OxDEG talk on ‘An (auto)ethnography of YouTube creators’ labour in the online video industry’ \nIn the late 2000’s a new and exciting cultural phenomenon was bubbling under the surface. Around the world\, teens in their bedrooms were turning on their webcams to film asynchronous conversations with unknown audiences and uploading them to YouTube. Online communities started to flourish on the platform and new genres began to crystallise: vlogs\, tutorials\, comedy sketches\, video responses. In these early years being a ‘YouTuber’ was not yet a viable career and creator culture mainly flew under the radar of mainstream media organisations\, or else was viewed as trivial or insignificant. Since then\, we have seen the rise a new and powerful cross-platform creative industry. What began as pockets of amateur creators on YouTube has grown into a mature infrastructure of diverse and competing platforms\, such as Instagram\, TikTok\, Patreon\, Facebook and Twitch\, that combine online video and social networking affordances with opportunities for content creators to earn an income. \nShifting patterns of employment in the creative industries away from stable structures\, and the emergence of a new neoliberal worker-subject: entrepreneurial\, flexible\, self-directed and always available to work\, has been the topic of much academic scrutiny over the past decade (Gill 2010; Gill and Pratt 2008; Ross 2009; McRobbie 2016; Schlesinger 2016). Studies of this type of work have highlighted the collapse of boundaries between work and play\, intermittent and precarious income\, and a passionate attachment to work and the identity of creative labour (Erin-Duffy 2017). The platform-native online video industry offers new sociocultural and economic formations of creative labour\, fraught with ambivalence and precarity\, that require critical scrutiny. In particular\, the imperative for content creators to diversify income streams across multiple platforms\, brand deals\, merch and tour sales\, advertising revenue and crowdfunding\, all whilst scrutinising popularity metrics and audience feedback\, marks an extension of the neoliberal worker subjectivity. \nIn order to research the lived experiences and labour of aspiring and professional YouTube content creators\, I concluded that it was insufficient to merely watch\, like and comment on videos; I needed to become a YouTuber myself. In this talk\, as well as discussing my preliminary findings\, I reflect on my journey and experiences of using this experimental digital ethnographic method\, in addition to multi-sited online/offline fieldwork and interviews with content creators. As social media platforms have increasingly profound sociocultural impacts\, researchers need to find new methodological tools for engaging critically with this changing landscape. Autoethnography has provided me with significant insights into the labour of online creators\, from the ways in which they understand and navigate algorithms\, channel metrics and the multi-platform environment\, to the emotional highs and lows of trying to cultivate an audience.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/oxdeg-dont-forget-to-like-subscribe-and-turn-on-the-bell-notifications/
LOCATION:Oxford Internet Institute\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working People
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\n“The powerful have long agreed: Poor and working people must be watched. \nWith the proliferation of digital monitoring and algorithmic management of gig economy and blue collar workers\, it might seem like the expansion of workplace surveillance is a new trend. In reality\, it is a centuries-old phenomenon that has shaped core aspects of modern privacy debates. From English Poor Laws\, to the monitoring of 19th century coal miners and 20th century farmworker advocates\, to contemporary efforts to track workers in the digital economy\, this conference will follow the surveillance of poor and working people and those who advocate for them. \nHow has the myth of the untrustworthy pauper or worker transformed over time? What role has race and ethnicity played in justifying surveillance? Has this surveillance proven effective or not? How has technology normalized and propogated this surveillance? Finally\, how are local communities\, advocates\, and artists responding to these challenges? \nThe Color of Surveillance addresses these questions and more\, elevating the voices of working people\, labor advocates\, artists\, and historians. The conference will take place on Thursday\, November 7 in Hart Auditorium at Georgetown University Law Center\, and is presented in partnership with Free Press and MediaJustice\, with support from The Center on Poverty and Inequality Economic Security and Opportunity Initative\, the Workers’ Rights Institute\, and The Institute for Technology Law and Policy. \nStay tuned for more information on speakers and session details (note: if you would like to RSVP without going through Eventbrite\, please email us at privacy@georgetown.edu). For updates\, subscribe to our newsletter.” \n\n\n\n Event Listing Body  \n\n Listing Hero Details  \n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-color-of-surveillance-monitoring-of-poor-and-working-people/
LOCATION:Georgetown University\, Washington D.C\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Information Wars: A Conversation with Richard Stengel - Shorenstein Center
DESCRIPTION:“Join us for a conversation with Richard Stengel\, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy\, about his new book Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It. In conversation with moderators Amb. Wendy R. Sherman and Nancy Gibbs\, Stengel will delve into his time at the front lines of the Obama administration’s battle against disinformation campaigns by the Islamic State and Russia. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership.”\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/information-wars-a-conversation-with-richard-stengel-shorenstein-center/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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