Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor

Author:   Shawna Ross (Texas A&M University) ,  Andrew Pilsch (Texas A&M University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367199982


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   05 December 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Shawna Ross (Texas A&M University) ,  Andrew Pilsch (Texas A&M University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9780367199982


ISBN 10:   036719998
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   05 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction; Part One: Government; 1. Racialized Surveillance and the US Census: Tabulating Labor; 2. Digital Labor and Trans Histories: Resisting Assigned Gender in the Early Mainframe Era; 3. Big Data and Universal Design in The Home Market: Are There Market Researchers in Utopia?; Part Two: Industry; 4. Working in the Shadow of the Object; 5.Work, Play, and the Banality of the Digital: Boredom as Form; 6.Labor, Data, and Amateur Inventor in the Age of the Silicon Valley Boy Billionaire: Edisonade, Zuckerbergade; 7. Digitizing Labor in the Google Books Project: Gloved Fingertips and Severed Hands; Part Three: Out of the Office; 8. Reading Women’s Labor in the Cybernetic Seventies: Vital Work; 9. The Economy of Online Comments; Part Four: University; 10. The Digital Labor of Blended Learning: The Reading Cities Project; 11. Using Video Games to the Test the Boundaries Between Work, Play, and Cultural Criticism: The Labor of Critique; 12. (Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China; 13. The Stakes of Digital Labor in the 21st Century Academy: The Revolution Will Not Be Turkified; 14. Scaling Black Feminisms: A Critical Discussion about the Digital Labor of Representation

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Shawna Ross is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, where she researches and teaches on British modernism, Victorian literature, and the digital humanities. Her monograph Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene is under contract at SUNY Press, while her co-written collection Reading Modernism with Machines was released in 2016 and her co-written book Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom was released in 2017. Her other works may be found in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Victorians, the Journal of Interactive Pedagogy, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Henry James Review, and Modernism/modernity PrintPlus, among other venues. Andrew Pilsch is an Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, where he teaches and researches rhetoric and the digital humanities. His first book, Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia, was released by University of Minnesota Press in 2017, when it was awarded the Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize. His research has been published in Amodern, Philosophy & Rhetoric, and Science Fiction Studies.

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