Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Affective Labor, Post-Fordism, Informa
10 Dec 2016
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Immaterial labour: labour that produces an immaterial good, such as a service, a cultural product, knowledge, or communication. 2 types: traditional knowledge work, and other activities not normally seen as work. Shift from wage for time relationship to the production of things that are not tangible and do not have a substantial relation to time. Increasingly, a great deal of economy activity was taking place in the realm of informational work. Activities we might not see as work. Affective labour: involving human contact and interaction including heavily gendered caring and health work. Offers a sense of well-being to customers. Instills emotions in both the labour provider and the consumer. Has become central to economic production as the ultimate goal of disseminating content is both profit as well as an emotional reaction from the audience. Precarity: collectively created conceptual tool, practical purpose of which is to aid in naming, understanding, and ultimately transforming the conditions of labour under post-
