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Abstract
We observe that a new, minor genre of resistance has emerged among female worker vloggers. Whether working in manufacturing plants or on construction sites, these female worker vloggers actively produce videos about the laughter and tears of their work lives. Their workplaces constitute the central source of their daily vlog production. We develop a concept of ‘re-coupling site’ to explore how these female vloggers transform conventional workplaces into novel digital sites, simultaneously turning themselves into digital laborers, to articulate their voices, perform their work identities, and enact their daily resistance. This concept helps induce a new interpretation of place and placed experience to fashion our understanding of working-class digital nomadism in the Global South context, where digital and cultural production can happen at work. Perhaps more importantly, the class and gender experiences articulated in their vlogs have been translated into collective practices that potentially foreground the formation of class-based online communities.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Information Communication and Society |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 7 Oct 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding
This work was supported by GRF, RGC project, “Cultivating worker communities among themselves: digital technologies, platform workers, and participatory culture in China”.
Keywords
- Digital nomadism
- female workers
- cultural production
- class-based online communities
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Cultivating worker communities among themselves: digital technologies, platform workers, and participatory culture in China ( 培育工人社区:中国的数字技术、平台工作者与参与性文化)
PUN, N. (PI), QIU, J. L. (CoI), ZHOU, Y. (CoI) & SUN, P. (CoI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Grant Research