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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Shawna Ross, Andrew Pilsch Copyright 2020
288 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Humans at Work in the Digital Age explores the roots of twenty-first-century cultures of digital textual labor, mapping the diverse physical and cognitive acts involved, and recovering the invisible workers and work that support digital technologies. Drawing on 14 case studies organized around four sites of work, this book shows how definitions of labor have been influenced by the digital... Read more

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

 

Introduction

Andrew Pilsch and Shawna Ross

 

Part One: Government

1. Racialized Surveillance and the US Census: Tabulating Labor

J. D. Schnepf

 

2. Digital Labor and Trans Histories: Resisting Assigned Gender in the Early Mainframe Era

Mar Hicks

3. Big Data and Universal Design in The Home Market: Are There Market Researchers in Utopia?

Megan Faragher

Part Two: Industry

4. Working in the Shadow of the Object

Rebecca Perry

5.Work, Play, and the Banality of the Digital: Boredom as Form

Paul Benzon

6.Labor, Data, and Amateur Inventor in the Age of the Silicon Valley Boy Billionaire: Edisonade, Zuckerbergade

Nicholas M. Kelly

7. Digitizing Labor in the Google Books Project: Gloved Fingertips and Severed Hands:

Andrea Zeffiro

Part Three: Out of the Office

8. Reading Women’s Labor in the Cybernetic Seventies: Vital Work

Madeleine Monson-Rosen

9. The Economy of Online Comments

John R. Gallagher

Part Four: University

10. The Digital Labor of Blended Learning: The Reading Cities Project

Melissa Dinsman, Carrie Johnston, and Elizabeth Rodrigues

11. Using Video Games to the Test the Boundaries Between Work, Play, and Cultural Criticism: The Labor of Critique

Matthew Kelly

12. (Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China

Jessica Siu-yin Yeung

13. The Stakes of Digital Labor in the 21st Century Academy: The Revolution Will Not Be Turkified

Roopika Risam

14. Scaling Black Feminisms: A Critical Discussion about the Digital Labor of Representation

Alexandria Lockett

 

Index

Biography



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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