Essays about: "affective labour"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words affective labour.

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. Resistance from within : the experiences and performances of female Malawian YouTubers

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Mercy Malikwa; [2023]
   Keywords : Female Malawian YouTubers; YouTube vlogging; Vlogs; Affective labour; Transgression; Agency; Identities; Patriarchy; Colonialism; Performance; Everyday Life; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explored the experiences and performances of female Malawian YouTubers. It is grounded in the understanding of the digital realm as a liberal space in which common people can showcase their own realities without the mediation of the structures of censorship common in traditional media. READ MORE

4. 3. 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

5. 4. Exhibiting Performing Subjects : Curating Outsourced Performance Labour in Museum Settings

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Anne Vigeland; [2020]
   Keywords : Performance art; performance curation; art museum; affective labour; outsourced labour; de-skilling re-skilling; reperformance; Marina Abramović; Dora García;

   Abstract : The thesis examines challenges museum curators face when outsourced performers – whose role it is to embody the work of other artists – are included in exhibition projects. The research questions are: What are the practical, juridical and ethical challenges that come with situating outsourced performance labour in the museum setting? What does the inclusion of live performance in exhibition projects mean for the role of the museum curator? Two exhibition cases in Stockholm are studied in the thesis: Marina Abramović – The Cleaner (2017) at Moderna Museet and Dora García, I Always Tell the Truth at Bonniers Konsthall (2018–19). READ MORE

6. 5. Courtroom atmospheres : Affective dynamics in court sessions of criminal matter in Vienna

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Aina Backman; [2017]
   Keywords : affect; atmosphere; courtroom; discipline; Vienna;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the composition of affective atmospheres, emerging in court sessions of criminal matter in Vienna. The notion of atmosphere is used to explore collective affective qualities, emerging through the interplay between affective bodies and their environment. READ MORE