... marketing social media digital platforms platformization idol industry ...

... With the rapid growth of digital technologies, K-Pop has been at the center of the Korean cultural industries in the early 21st century. K-Pop continues to be a frontier of digital platforms and entertainment agencies that utilize digital technologies to advance new forms of cultural production...

..., the chapter attends to how reproductive laborers are being incorporated into the neoliberal notion of homo entrepreneur. This dynamic reveals how digital care work platforms obfuscate and perhaps even worsen the stratification of reproductive labor while claiming to solve problems in care work through a novel...

... technologies With the rapid growth of digital technologies, K-Pop has been at the center of the Korean cultural industries in the early 21st century. K-Pop continues to be a frontier of digital platforms and entertainment agencies that utilize digital technologies to advance new forms of cultural...

... music streaming political economy digital capitalism music platforms ...

... endings are often not merely resolutions but also moments of quiet reflection. Part of the beauty of television as a narrative form and as an archival system is that it forever promises the possibility of the return of the familiar, whether through the design of digital platforms, time-shifting...

... The epilogue considers what the political, corporate, and activist responses to the coronavirus pandemic reveal about the innovation/reproduction binary. Corporations are looking to capitalize on this moment. For example, the company CareRev is positioning its digital platform—which uses an Uber...

... as nature (and water in particular) has long been imagined within classical and neoclassical economics. On the other hand, as a public good that has been privatized, digital music’s givenness on streaming platforms is contingent, being conditional on users having paid the requisite toll to gain access...

... flows and ordinary affects engender the resilient happiness required to mother through precarity. Through providing a range of snapshots of women’s everyday lives with online platforms like Facebook and Pinterest, this chapter shows how the digital mundane figures as a potent contact zone quivering...

... tasks necessary to maintain themselves and others, which are also necessary to maintain themselves as labor power. Facilitating this change in music’s use value is the partial decommodification it undergoes on streaming platforms. As a form of cheap culture, digital music is conscripted to mitigate...

... reproduction or the “free gifts” of nature that capital relies on without accounting for this reliance. music streaming political economy digital capitalism music platforms ...

... as service: such commonplace dichotomies, which undergird popular narratives about the development of streaming, deflect attention away from a more significant mutation: platforms’ transformation of digital copies from durable to disposable goods, a transformation that exploits digital reproduction’s...

... Moving from a discussion of how girls make spaces, chapter 2 demonstrates how the spaces that Black girls have created have allowed informal archives of Black life to materialize. Connecting Black girls’ digital image-making to traditions of Black vernacular photography and videography along...

... “Counterfeiting Attention in the Streaming Economy” examines the unintended effects of the platform model, as musicians and other actors have sought to turn streaming’s peculiar economic incentives and infrastructural limitations to their advantage. Three case studies are considered. One...

... K-Pop has always depended on multimedia performance and platforms to reach global audiences, and on the versatility of its performers as not just singers, rappers and dancers, but also actors, fashion icons, and television and Internet personalities. With each new game, BTS circulates...

... that circumvent state and clerical control. The chapter explores private cars, shopping malls, and online platforms as interstitial spaces and productive arenas where Saudi women engage in conversation with unrelated others, share grievances, express dissent, and mobilize around common causes...

... Increasingly, governments and platforms are investing in automation and artificial intelligence to govern sexual content at scale. As sex work environments become more heavily surveilled, this chapter explores the phenomenon of “automated whorephobia”: the coding of sex work stigma...

... The coda explores frictions engendered on both sides of the former Iron Curtain through practices of outsourcing landlordism. Since the 2008 foreclosure crisis, there has been a trend among US corporate landlords to use digital “proptech” platforms to facilitate scalable property management...

... of that interplay, nonetheless specific to work in contemporary digital media. Journalist Rich Juzwiak uses the platform of his blog fourfour to enact just such an interplay, modeling likewise for the scholar paradoxical ways to stay a course by wandering and to collect (ideas, objects, and their collision...