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- Bolin, Göran, 1959-
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Media Use and the Extended Commodification of the Lifeworld
- 2018
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Ingår i: Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319762784 - 9783319762791 ; , s. 235-252
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the chapter Bolin argues that in the world of digital, interactive media, media users become involved in two kinds of valorisation processes: one in which they produce social, aesthetic and cultural value within the framework of a cultural economy – which then becomes appropriated by the media industries and transformed into economic value. Furthermore, the nature of the business models of social networking media makes the labour activities at their bottom easily misrecognized by the media users. The result of this process is an increased commodification of social realms that have previously been outside of the economic markets.
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- Forsler, Ingrid, 1980-, et al.
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Efficient Worker or Reflective Practitioner? : Competing Technical Rationalities of Media Software Tools
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Ingår i: Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319762784 - 9783319762791 ; , s. 99-119
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The work of creators of digital media today is profoundly reliant on the use of specialised software. Yet, software is not merely an instrument of labour. The current hegemonies of society are incorporated in the technological design of tools, explicating what Feenberg (2009) calls technical rationality. Different production frameworks can embed distinct forms of such rationality depending on the goals of their creators. Drawing on theories of knowledge and feminist theory of technological development, Forsler and Velkova present an analysis of the production frameworks of three different manufactures of software tools for computer graphics, both industrial and user-driven. The chapter contributes with a conceptual theoretical model of how these frameworks are underpinned by different epistemological assumptions and competing visions of media practitioners.
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