[Commlist] Issue, 8.2, “The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry” - Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, published

We are excited to announce that Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film 
and Moving Image Studies has just released its new issue, 8.2, “The 
Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry,” guest 
edited by the medialabour collective.

This special issue discusses the intersection of academic labour with 
the precarity faced in media industries, through different formats and a 
rich book review section.

Please take a look at the table of contents below and review the 
selection of articles on our site: <http://www.synoptique.ca> . We 
invite you to share any pieces that strikes your interest with your peers.

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SYNOPTIQUE Vol. 8, No. 2. The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, 
Education, and Industry

Introduction

The medialabour collective


Thought Pieces

Vicki Mayer - Pedagogies of Paradox in Media Studies and Media Labour

Rebecca Holt - “If I Was Moved...”: Doing Digital Ethnography in the 
Fields of Pornhub

Patrick Vonderau - Expert or Idiot? On False Dilemmas in Digital Media 
Research

Errol Salamon - Learning to Diversify the Media Labor Force

Jacqueline Ristola - Fight to Win: The Political Contours of Graduate 
Student Organizing

Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter - Extracting Concepts


Interviews

A Conversation on Reproductive Work and the University with Silvia 
Federici - Interviewed by Ylenia Olibet and Kerry McElroy

Parsing Out Intersections Between Activism and Academia with Alessandra 
Renzi - Interviewed by Sima Kokotović


Fieldnotes

Mariz Kelada - Letting Fieldwork Speak Back

Gino Canella - Filmmaking as Militant Co-Research

Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier - HOMING — The Homes of the Women of Our Rural 
Home: Documentary Co-creation As a Practice of Unforgetting

Kerry Guinan - Between Practice and Praxis: Why I Am Not an Artivist


Book Reviews

Ishita Tiwary - Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson, Voices of Labor. 
Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood

Meredith Slifkin - Jane Gaines,Pink Slipped: What Happened to Women in 
the Silent Film Industries?

Mark Barber - Vicki Mayer, Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The 
Lure of the Local Film Economy

Sarika Joglekar - Jean Chung Hye, Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects 
and Material Labor in Global Film Production

Claudia Sicondolfo - Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What 
You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work

Kristen Cochrane - Greg Goldberg, Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the 
Digital Economy

Anne-Marie Trépanier - Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim, 
Mothering Through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media


Events Reviews

Joaquín Serpe - Front Row Seat at the “Debate of the Century”: Slavoj 
Zizek vs. Jordan Peterson, April 19, 2019

Sadie Gilker - A Reflection on Precarity: The Institute for Urban 
Futures and Le Banquet des Précariats


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