[ecrea] New book announcement - Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife

I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book: Feminism,
Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife, available from Routledge.

This book argues for using Marxist feminist theories about the role of
domestic work in capitalism to explore the nature of digital media’s
consumer labour. In particular, it focuses on the debate about whether
users are exploited in and alienated by their online activity or if they
do indeed experience unalienated, socially meaningful exchanges,
challenging this unhelpful binary. It uses the concept of the Digital
Housewife to outline the relationship between the work we do online and
the unpaid sphere of social reproduction. It demonstrates how feminist
perspectives expand our critique of consumer labour in digital media. In
doing so, the Digital Housewife returns feminist inquiry from the
margins of political economy and places it at the heart of critical
digital media analysis.

Table of contents:

Introduction: From the Mechanical Turk to the Digital Housewife

1. Sexts from Marxists and Other Stories from Digital Media’s Social
Factory

2. My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All the Boys to the Yard: A
Feminist Critique of the Social Factory

3. Who Says Facebook Friends Are Not Your Real Friends? Alienation and
Exploitation in Digital Media

4. Gifts, Commodities and the Economics of Affect

5. I Can Haz False Consciousness? Social Reproduction and Affective
Consumer Labour

Conclusion: Beyond Consumer Labour

My apologies for the shameless self-promotion and the absurd cost of the
book. Please email me for more information. Contact details available
here:
<https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/kylie-jarrett>https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/kylie-jarrett 



Thanks,

Dr. Kylie Jarrett

Department of Media Studies

National University of Ireland Maynooth.



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