Humans at Work in the Digital Age - Forms of Digital Textual Labor (Hardcover)

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 technologies that employees use to produce, interpret, or process text. Incorporating methodology and theory from a range of disciplines and highlighting labor issues related to topics as diverse as census tabulation, market research, electronic games, digital archives, and 3D modeling, contributors uncover the roles played by race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics in determining how narratives of digital labor are constructed and erased. Because each chapter is centered on the human cost of digital technologies, however, it is individual people immersed in cultures of technology who are the focus of the volume, rather than the technologies themselves. Humans at Work in the Digital Age shows how humanistic inquiry can be a valuable tool in the emerging conversation surrounding digital textual labor. As such, this book will be essential reading for academics and postgraduate students engaged in the study of digital humanities; human-computer interaction; digital culture and social justice; race, class, gender, and sexuality in digital realms; the economics of the internet; and technology in higher education.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2020
Editors:	Shawna Ross • Andrew Pilsch
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-19998-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > General Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > General
LSN:	0-367-19998-X
Barcode:	9780367199982

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