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Workspace Media: The Rise of the Procrastination Economy and the Future of Entertainment

Author:
Tussey, Ethan Daniel
Degree Grantor:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Film and Media Studies
Degree Supervisor:
Constance Penley
Place of Publication:
[Santa Barbara, Calif.]
Publisher:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Creation Date:
2012
Issued Date:
2012
Topics:
Psychology, Industrial, Information Technology, Cinema, and Business Administration, Management
Keywords:
Labor
Fan Studies
Workplace
New Media
Digital
Media Industries
Genres:
Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
Dissertation:
Ph.D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012
Description:

As digital technologies have become a part of our daily lives, scholars have raised concerns that digital media are making us more isolated, alienated, and economically exploited. But in my research on the production, distribution, depiction, and reception of digital content in the workplace, I found that online culture is more dynamic. I argue that the workplace is an important location for the consumption and circulation of digital culture as well as an ideal context for understanding how digital technologies factor into the media industries. Following a "site-specific" ethnographic approach, I observed a dozen workplaces, interviewed a variety of creative workers, and found that assumptions about digital media have less to do with technological capabilities and more to do with the business strategies of the media industries and cultural anxieties about the proliferation of global capitalism. My findings show that digital technologies are revealing the relationship between cultural producers and consumers by externalizing behaviors and practices previously hidden.

Physical Description:
1 online resource (227 pages)
Format:
Text
Collection(s):
UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
ARK:
ark:/48907/f3mc8x45
ISBN:
9781267649393
Catalog System Number:
990038916050203776
Rights:
Inc.icon only.dark In Copyright
Copyright Holder:
Ethan Tussey
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