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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 88–115.
Published: 01 December 2020
... media users’ unpaid digital labor—creating, sharing, and responding to content—sustains the platforms that extract their data as “surplus value.” It further draws on sociologist Erving Goffman’s account of “face-work” in order to clarify the way in which a person’s digital identity is produced...
View articletitled, Wages for Face-Work: Black Mirror ’s “Nosedive” and <span class="search-highlight">Digital</span> Reproductive <span class="search-highlight">Labor</span>
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of Alberta and is completing his dissertation, titled “Postfeminist Technologies: Digital Media and Cultural Industries of Choice.” His work has appeared in Spectator and several anthologies. © 2013 by Camera Obscura 2013 Figure 1. Pattie Maes, 2008. Courtesy of Pattie Maes
Female Labor...
View articletitled, Female <span class="search-highlight">Labor</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Digital</span> Media: Pattie Maes, Postfeminism, and the Birth of Social Networking Technologies
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 133–139.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Elizabeth Losh Tactics for feminist organizing are changing with the rise of new technologies. From the standpoint of expending digital labor, not all of these changes seem to be for the better. This essay looks at the practices of the international collective FemTechNet, a network of hundreds...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 1–37.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the ways in which some fashion-themed blogs refuse neoliberal fictions of freedom and digital disembodiment by deploying a radical politics of sentimentality that reembodies fashion and labor histories by publicizing the material realities of race, gender, generation, sex, and class that are typically...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the archives of nineteenth-century Iran, the article argues that the digital (mis)use of archives exposes what forms such as the Persian carpet and photography erase: each medium's close ties with power, labor, gender, and sexuality. It develops a relational approach to understandings of photography...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of neoliberalism demonstrates that embodiment in digital image networks emerges as a mode of intervention into the biopolitics of memory. Embodiment becomes the ghost in the machine of the film’s vision of neoliberal labor and memory markets. By focusing on the particular aesthetic means by which the film thinks...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Mactaggart Lecture,” filmed 23 August 2018, YouTube video, 53:18, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odusP8gmqsg . There is a tension here between digital labor and digital opportunity; Francesca Sobande has written of below-the-line commenting as itself a form of labor, and digitally disseminated cultural...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... conditions that make computation
possible.16 Particularly pressing among these material conditions
are the manual labor involved in producing electronic devices and
the domestic labor necessary to reproduce creatives and tech indus-
Notes on Digital Community and Revolution...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 109–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
... modification to
what Tiziana Terranova claims is television’s “historical legacy”
as a “technology for the construction of national identities”
(Terranova, “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital
Economy,” Social Text, no. 63 [2000]: 46).
19. Shoshana Magnet, “Visualizing...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
Published: 01 May 2016
... According to Virno, the “general intellect is the foundation
of a social cooperation broader than that cooperation which is spe-
cifically related to labor.”5 Marx discusses the general intellect as an
immaterial surplus that emerges from workers’ collaboration, cre-
ativity, know-how...
View articletitled, Machinic Intimacies and Mechanical Brides: Collectivity between Prosthesis and Surrogacy in Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates and Spike Jonze's Her
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Obscura
typically uncompensated or undercompensated.48 More recently,
Franco Berardi has suggested that “cognitive workers,” like call-
center executives, digital workers, and entrepreneurial managers,
represent the archetype of twenty-first-century immaterial labor in
that their intellectual...
View articletitled, Immaterial Child <span class="search-highlight">Labor</span>: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 65–97.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Deborah Lupton, “Understanding the Human Machine,” IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (Winter 2013): 25–30. On the post-Fordist subject and immaterial labor, see Maurizio Lazzarato, “Immaterial Labor,” in Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics , ed. Paolo Virno and Michael Hardt (Minneapolis...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 153–163.
Published: 01 May 2016
... members Liane Brandon and Amalie R.
Rothschild, developed aesthetic and economic strategies that
addressed and created not only a wider audience interested in the
women’s movement, labor issues, and political debates about birth
control and abortion, but also an audience that could be consti...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 139–146.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of vidding is often analo
gous to the labor of producing scholarship in cultural theory. In
both cases, finding one’s archive and articulating connections
between the creative and/or scholarly work of others is central.
Scholarly vids could be connections between the world of aca-
demic digital...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 141–171.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in another sense. Thus the condition of becoming user is not confined to one location or another; rather it is entangled with the conditions of labor and leisure. User management is one of the functions of capitalism now. User management can be a violent process. The process of becoming user can be violent...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of the post-Fordist labor that
Mass Ornament illustrates:
Just as rows of spectators in the 1920s and 1930s sat in movie theaters and
stadiums watching rows of bodies moving in formation, with YouTube
The Dialogic Documentary Practice of Natalie Bookchin • 9
videos, single...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
Published: 01 December 2016
...
into quantifiable dataand freed from the necessities of conforming
to such conditions.
Park’s excessive and rather difficult-to-decipher subjectivity
transcends the simple logics of coherent identity and embodiment.
It involves the material and digital forms of collaborative labor that
generate...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
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Collectives in Canada
Marusya Bociurkiw
One cold winter day in 2007, I received a phone call that initi-
ated a long and winding journey into the half-forgotten history
of Canada’s feminist media collectives. The caller was a woman I
had interviewed years earlier for the labor documentary...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., and knowledges
that may disrupt a national being-toward-death.
As television scholars have long noted, TV from its very
inception has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, practices of
food consumption. Like the familial division of time and gendered
labor that animates the bourgeois ideal...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 184–185.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
paradigms of relational aesthetics, new configurations of labor and
precarity, and the rise of neoliberal policy, which has worked to
erode the public sphere and shared resources in favor of the idea
of individual responsibility. In contrast, the theory and practice
of collectivity emphasize...
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