Cybertarian flexibility - when prosumers join the cognitariat, all that is scholarship melts into air
Miller, T. (2016) Cybertarian flexibility - when prosumers join the cognitariat, all that is scholarship melts into air. In: Curtin, M. and Sanson, K., (eds.) Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor. University of California Press, Oakland, California, pp. 19-32.
Abstract
The prevailing media credo, in domains that matter both a lot (popular, capitalist, and state discourse and action) and a little (communication, cultural, and media studies), is upheaval. The litany goes something like this: Corporate power is challenged. State authority is compromised. A vant-garde art and politics are centered. The young are masters, not victims. Technologies represent freedom, not domination. Revolutions are fomented by Twitter, not theory; by memes, not memos; by Facebook, not Foucault; by phone, not protest…
Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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Publisher: | University of California Press |
Copyright: | 2016 by The Regents of the University of California |
Publisher's Website: | https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=978052029085... |
URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/40512 |
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