1st Edition
Transmedia Work Privilege and Precariousness in Digital Modernity
Chapter 1:
Why transmedia work matters
Chapter 2:
Understanding transmediatization
Chapter 3:
The rise of transmedia work
Chapter 4:
Discourses and materialities of transmedia work
Chapter 5:
Transmedia work as recognition work
Chapter 6:
The social costs of transmedia work
Chapter 7:
How transmedia work changes modern society
Biography
Karin Fast is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies and part of the Geomedia Research Group at Karlstad University, Sweden. Her research interests include mediatization, work, transmediality, media geographies, and cultural industries. Her work on labour, mediatization, transmediality, and cultural industries has been published in numerous journals, including Communication Theory; Media, Culture & Society and International Journal of Cultural Studies.
André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and Director of the Geomedia Research Group at Karlstad University, Sweden. His most recent books include Mediatization and Mobile Lives: A Critical Approach (2018) and Cosmopolitanism and the Media: Cartographies of Change (2015, with M. Christensen).
'As managing our digital selves is a permanent property of media life, it profoundly transforms what we understand "work" to be. Fast and Jansson provide an eye-opening account of how people’s lived experience at work changes under conditions of transmedia.'
Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam
'From academic life to Gigstr and TaskRabbit work is being transformed by proliferating digital platforms. Contributing to debates about precariousness, mediatization and digital modernity, this fascinating book argues that many of us are now transmedia workers – and opens up critical questions about what this means.'
Rosalind Gill, City, University of London
'With Transmedia Work Karin Fast and André Jansson draw our attention to the ways in which work has changed in an age of deep mediatization; a time where work is comprehensively interwoven with various media technologies. This important book discusses the opportunities as well as the precariousness of the mediatized worlds of work today on the basis of an inspired selection of empirical examples. It is a fundamental contribution for everyone who wants to understand today’s working life.'
Andreas Hepp, ZeMKI, University of Bremen
