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Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries A Critical Introduction

Book launch: Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction, by Tanner Mirrless (2025)

Speaker: Tanner Mirrlees, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech, and GLRC Faculty Associate.

 

Description:

This book is a first-of-its-kind critical interdisciplinary introduction to the economic, political, cultural, and technological dimensions of work in the rapidly growing digital media and entertainment industries (DMEI).

Tanner Mirrlees presents a comprehensive guide to understanding the key contexts, theories, methods, debates, and struggles surrounding work in the DMEI. Packed with current examples and accessible research findings, the book highlights the changing conditions and experiences of work in the DMEI. It surveys the DMEI’s key sectors and occupations and considers the complex intersections between labor and social power relations of class, gender, and race, as well as tensions between creativity and commerce, freedom and control, meritocracy and hierarchy, and precarity and equity, diversity, and inclusivity. Chapters also explore how work in the DMEI is being reshaped by capitalism and corporations, government and policies, management, globalization, platforms, A.I., and worker collectives such as unions and cooperatives. This book is a critical introduction to this growing area of research, teaching, learning, life, labor, and organizing, with an eye to understanding work in the DMEI and changing it, for the better.

Offering a broad overview of the field, this textbook is an indispensable resource for instructors, undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars.

 

Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction book cover

Date

Mar 06 2025

Time

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location

Virtual

Organizer

GLRC
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