Essays about: "affective labor"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words affective labor.

1. 1. "A book is not like any other commodity" : A qualitative study on Swedish bookfluencers, labour, and aspirations.

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Jonsson Martina; [2023]
   Keywords : bookfluencers; book content; aspirational labour; affective labour; gifted books; gifted content; social media marketing; attunement; work-net;

   Abstract : The thesis focuses on bookfluencers – content creators that create content about books and reading. The study explores how they perceive the gifted books they receive from book publishers and other actors, which they are expected to create content about – often unpaid. READ MORE

3. 2. The Caring Curator : Exploring Conditions for Care in Curatorial Practices

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Laus Katrine Østergaard; [2023]
   Keywords : Care; curating; cultural work; contemporary art; affective labor; care ethics; work conditions;

   Abstract : The concept of care has recently gained significant attention in cultural institutions and among artists. This trend was particularly evident in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, which contributed to increased public programming focused on caring practices and the concept of care. READ MORE

4. 3. Mai Mamma: An exploratory qualitative case study of Apulian mothers' perception of childcare

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Francesco Saverio Demarinis; [2023]
   Keywords : care work; social reproduction; love labor; mothering; Puglia; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In Italy, ideas surrounding family and motherhood seem to be unveiled as myths rather than values. Despite the historical prominence of these notions within the national political and social agenda, the country's support to families and predominantly female caregivers remains severely inadequate. READ MORE

5. 4. Computation as Strange Material : Excursions into Critical Accidents

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Love Lagerkvist; [2021]
   Keywords : machine learning; artificial intelligence; ml; ai; interaction design; computation; strange material; LinkedIn; smart reply; artificial artificial intelligence; neo-rationalism; materialism; marxism; computers; iot; material; method; ubicomp; labor; labour; affective labour; affective labor; post-operaism; excursion; critical accident; strange loop; strange attractors; Linux; Linux kernel mailing list; Turing test; imitation game;

   Abstract : Waking up in a world where everyone carries a miniature supercomputer, interaction designers find themselves in their forerunners dreams. Faced with the reality of planetary-scale we have to confront the task of articulating approaches responsive this accidental ubiquity of computation. READ MORE

6. 5. “Mommy meets Money”: Digitized forms of affective labor among ‘mommy’ bloggers and the biopolitical production of ‘life’ as a marketable commodity

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

   Author : Erla Gjinishi; [2018]
   Keywords : affective labor; biopolitical production; everyday life; marketable commodities; virtual economy; reproductive labor; social factory; ‘mommy’ blogging; multitude; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study explores the ways in which digitized forms of affective labor among ‘mommy’ bloggers effectuate biopolitical production of ‘life’ as a marketable commodity. Situating the research in a context of a neo-liberal re-structuring of the global order and dissolving biopolitical state boundaries, this study captures the transformation of ‘life’ and its quotidian needs and capabilities into a terrain for commodification. READ MORE