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The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry
(eds. medialabour collective)
Thought Pieces
- Vicki Mayer – Pedagogies of Paradox in Media Studies and Media Labour
- Rebecca Holt – “If I Was Moved…”: Doing Digital Ethnography in the Fields of Pornhub
- Patrick Vonderau – Expert or Idiot? On False Dilemmas in Digital Media Research
- Errol Salamon – Learning to Diversify the Media Labour Force
- Jacqueline Ristola – Fight to Win: The Political Contours of Graduate Student Organizing
- Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter – Extracting Concepts
Interviews
- Ylenia Olibet and Kerry McElroy – A Conversation on Reproductive Work and the University with Silvia Federici
- Sima Kokotović – Parsing Out Intersections Between Activism and Academia with Alessandra Renzi
Fieldnotes
- Mariz Kelada – Letting Fieldwork Speak Back
- Gino Canella – Filmmaking as Militant Co-Research
- Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier – HOMING – The Homes of Women of Our Rural Home: Documentary Co-Creation as a Practice of Unforgetting
- Kerry Guinan – Between Practice and Praxis: Why I Am Not an Artivist
Book Reviews
- Ishita Tiwary – Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson. Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood
- Meredith Slifkin – Jane Gaines. Pink Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
- Mark Barber – Vicki Mayer. Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy
- Sarika Joglekar – Jean Chung Hye. Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production
- Claudia Sicondolfo – Brooke Erin Duffy. (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
- Kristen Cochrane – Greg Goldberg. Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy
- Anne-Marie Trépanier – Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim. Mothering Through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media
Event Reviews