Duration : 120 Minutes
bstract of the Keynote:
Feminist scholars and activists, especially those shaped by the Marxist feminist tradition, have long argued that more attention be paid to the reproduction of workers, especially within domestic contexts. Drawing on this position and the approach of social reproduction theory, this paper will argue for the importance of investigating work beyond the point of production in order to more fully appreciate the conditions of possibility for work. Using various kinds of platform work as a focus, it will explore the utility of this approach for understanding the economics of the digital media industries. It will then argue for the importance of understanding the embedding of gig work within reproductive social contexts and will finally consider how they hybridity of reproductive labour allows it to feed into acts of resistance and resilience within the platform economy.
Biography:
Kylie Jarrett is Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. She is author of Digital Labor (2022) and Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016) and co-author of NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media (2019) and Google and the Culture of Search (2013). She is also editor of the new journal Dialogues in Digital Society.