Through the Reproductive Lens : Labour and Struggle at the Intersection of Culture and Economy

Jarrett, Kylie

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“…That firms are benefiting from the free labor of volunteers situate F/OSS and peer production more generally within the same exploitative historical trend exemplified by domestic work. This is a move made by Kylie Jarrett (2016Jarrett ( , 2019 who argues, in line with past feminist critiques (Dalla Costa & James, 1972), that unpaid domestic labor is crucial for capitalist production and reproduction. The binary between production and reproduction work renders essential forms of labor invisible.…”

Section: How Capitalism Co-opts Peer Production: the Case Of Free And...mentioning

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The Duality of Peer Production

O’Neil

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Pentzold

2020

The Handbook of Peer Production

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Section: How Capitalism Co-opts Peer Production: the Case Of Free And...mentioning

confidence: 79%

The Duality of Peer Production

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Pentzold

2020

The Handbook of Peer Production

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“…Thus, the platformization of everyday work and life further expands the scale and depth of affective labor in private and public spaces alike. The platform-mediated gig economy, daily uses of social media, micro-celebrities and influencers, and how work and domestic practices are being reshaped by digital technologies demonstrate the centrality of care, emotion, affective labor, and further precarity, alienation, and exploitation (Jarrett, 2019).…”

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Affective News, Affective Labor: Chinese Female “Little Editors” of WeChat Official Accounts in Australia

Yang

2023

Social Media + Society

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In Australia, WeChat Official Accounts is known as a hub for the production and distribution of affective news, or sensationalized content, among Chinese migrants. This article aims to address: Who/What is responsible for this form of content production on WeChat? Who are the people (re)producing news information for WeChat Official Accounts in Australia? How and why do they engage with such activities for Australia-based WeChat Official Accounts? And how do they shed light on our digital culture, economy, and platform labor? To address the questions, from 2019 to 2022, I conducted 27 semi-structured interviews with Chinese-Australian media professionals at both managerial and staff levels as well as conducted a longitudinal ethnographic observation with more than 200 Australia-based WeChat Official Accounts that translate news stories for the Chinese diaspora. The article argues that in Australia affective news on WeChat is the news story that conveys emotional resonance to Chinese migrant readers; it is predominantly produced by Chinese female little editors who work as affective labor. The employment of affective labor, that is, Chinese female international students or postgraduates, has led to the concentration of precarity, exploitation, and alienation among the groups of Chinese female little editors who are vulnerably exposed to the double exclusion coming from both neoliberalism in Australia’s dominant society and patriarchal normativity embedded in the Chinese migrant economy. The research findings shed light on the intensifying social inequality based on one’s race, ethnicity, gender, and social class that has been imposed and further normalized by digital technologies.

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“…The origin of the social factory is often attributed to the conditions of post-Fordism and the information-intensive industries of Big Data capitalism (Tronti, 2013(Tronti, (1962 Virno, 2004), so we often implicitly assume that the social factory is something new. Yet, it has a much longer history than we usually think (Jarrett, 2019). Autonomous self-making occurs in private domestic spaces, but we typically consider both these spaces and the interpersonal relations (including sexual activities) therein as outside of capital.…”

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The real digital househusbands of China: The alienable affects of China’s male ‘virtual lovers’

Tan

2020

Journal of Consumer Culture

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As China continues to neoliberalize in the new millennium, the Internet also enables new subjects of affective labour to emerge. Since 2014, young men have been hawking their services as xuni lianren (‘virtual lovers’) on popular Chinese websites. These men explicitly state that while they neither sell sex nor meet their clients in person, they behave otherwise as actual boyfriends would: over chatting apps, they talk to clients for leisure and provide relief from frustrations accumulated from family, school and work. We frame this study as one of the ‘digital housewife’, a conceptual figure who produces two use-values of alienable user data and inalienable affects like offline houseworkers do. Male virtual lovers, however, commodify even their supposedly inalienable affects, so we argue that they (as digital househusbands) embody digital housewife-ness even more so than Jarrett’s original formulation.

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Through the Reproductive Lens : Labour and Struggle at the Intersection of Culture and Economy

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

The Duality of Peer Production

The Duality of Peer Production

Affective News, Affective Labor: Chinese Female “Little Editors” of WeChat Official Accounts in Australia

The real digital househusbands of China: The alienable affects of China’s male ‘virtual lovers’

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