Lukács / Gabriella Lukacs Invisibility by Design

Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0718-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Gabriella Lukács traces how young Japanese women's unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, “girly” photographers, online traders, and cell phone novelists was central to the development of Japan's digital economy in the 1990s and 2000s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lukács, Gabriella

Gabriella Lukacs, Lukacs

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Labor and Gender in Japan's Digital Economy 1
1. Disidentifications: Women, Photography, and Everyday Patriarchy 30
2. The Labor of Cute: Net Idols in the Digital Economy 57
3. Career Porn: Blogging and the Good Life 81
4. Working without Sweating: Amateur Traders and the Financialization of Daily Life 106
5. Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Affective Labor, and Precarity Politics 132
Epilogue. Digital Labor, Labor Precarity, and Basic Income 155
Notes 167
References 207
Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriella Lukács is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan, also published by Duke University Press.