13 Making it work in media – analysing the complexity of managing competing demands in media work, including precarity versus freedom, and creativity versus commerce. Readings: Chapters 16-19, and 35 from the Making Media textbook. Lecture date: March 18.
Digital multiple-choice exam (50 questions), Thursday March 21: 19-21:00pm, room IWO 4.04A Rood.
sign value vs exchange value
convergence culture
transmedia
cross-subsidy
precarity
hourglass structure
disappearing product
platformization
afffective labor
crunchtime
liquid media production
product cycle
editorial model
flow model
snowfalling
project ecology
permanently beta
traditional business model
flexible business model
portfolio workstyles
Key insights: the ambivalence of media work
empowering & exploitative (vb gigonomics)
pleasurable & precarious (fun)
freedom & dependence (nobody knows)
creative & industrial production (autonomy)
gut feeling/creativity/originality & big data analytics/market logic
intense/full-on work & project-based/temporary work/hiatus (on/off)
engaged/committed work & lack of diversity, culturally homogenous (ideals)
work that reaches many & total disconnect from society/the public (so what?)
empowering & exploitative (vb gigonomics)
the gig economy turns workers with legislated employment rights into independent contractors who individually must fend for themselves.
professional, bureaucratic, entrepreneurial, unwillingly entrepreneurial, and non-employed
pleasurable & precarious (fun)
freedom & dependence (nobody knows)
creative & industrial production (autonomy)
gut feeling/creativity/originality & big data analytics/market logic
intense/full-on work & project-based/temporary work/hiatus (on/off)
engaged/committed work & lack of diversity, culturally homogenous (ideals)
work that reaches many & total disconnect from society/the public (so what?)
CS: people want to do meaningful work/affective labpr
PE: follow the money; ownership/concentration, shift to distribution
BM: cutting costs, efficiency
MP: creative industries, subsidies, copyrights
EG: clustering, project ecologies