[Sigiii-l] Ephemera Special Issue - Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens

[Ajit Pyati]

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The Digital Labour Group in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at
the University of Western Ontario and /*ephemera: theory and politics in
organization*/ are pleased to announce the arrival of Volume 10: 3-4:



/Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens/

Edited by Jonathan Burston, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alison Hearn

http://www.ephemeraweb.org/



Born out of the conference of the same name held in the fall of 2009 at the
University of Western Ontario, this special double issue of /ephemera/
addresses the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in
practice, politics, policy, culture, and theoretical enquiry. As workers, as
authors, and as citizens, we are increasingly summoned and disciplined by
new digital technologies that define the workplace and produce ever more
complex regimes of surveillance and control. At the same time, new
possibilities for agency and new spaces for collectivity are borne from
these multiplying digital innovations. This volume explores this social
dialectic, with a specific focus on new forms of labour. Papers examine the
histories and theories of digital capitalism, foundational assumptions in
debates about digital labour, issues of intellectual property and copyright,
material changes in the digital workplace, transnational perspectives on
digital labour, the issue of free labour and new definitions of work, and
struggles and contests on the scene of digital production. Contributors
include Brian Holmes, Andrea Fumagalli and Cristina Morini, David
Hesmondhalgh, Ursula Huws, Barry King, Jack Bratich, Enda Brophy and many
others. This issue also contains vital contributions from union and guild
activists hailing from the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), the Screen Actors
Guild (SAG), the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
(AFTRA), the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association and the
Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT).

The Digital Labour Group: Jonathan Burston, Edward Comor, James Compton,
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alison Hearn, Ajit Pyati, Sandra Smeltzer, Matt Stahl,
Samuel E. Trosow.






-- 
Ajit K. Pyati, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada
http://www.fims.uwo.ca
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