"The film industry in Hollywood now employs a global mode of production run by massive media conglomerates that mobilize hundreds, sometimes thousands, of workers for each feature film or television series. Yet these workers and their labor remain largely invisible to the genera…
by Cunningham, Stuart, Craig, David, Duffy, Brooke Erin, Baym, Nancy K., Banet-Weiser, Sarah, Burgess, Jean, Luvaas, Brent, Arriagada, Arturo, El Marzouki, Mohamed, Fraticelli, Damián, Glatt, Zoë, Hill, Stephanie, Kumar, Sangeet, Lv, Junyi, Mohan, Sriram, Postigo, Hector, Punathambekar, Aswin, Sawey, Megan, Scolari, Carlos A., Shtern, Jeremy, Tomasena, José M., Walczer, Jarrod
Explores new perspectives on social media entertainmentThere is a new class of cultural producers--YouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, Chinese wanghong, and others--who are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disruptive industry of monetized…
Workers in cultural industries often say that the best part of their job is the opportunity for creativity. At the same time, profit-minded managers at both traditional firms and digital platforms exhort workers to "be creative." Even as cultural fields hold out the prospect of …