I may try to do a bit more posting about #SCMS23 today - at the last in-person conference I was at, I was a bit better at live-tweeting but I think the pandemic years of zoom conferences have fried my brain a bit.
I'll use the #SCMS23 hashtag so if you want to avoid me spamming your timeline, you can add a filter to the phrase (but I think that everyone's talking about cool stuff and might want to follow along!)
Yandong Li's paper "Peasants, Workers, and Proeuctivity: a Cultural History of Greenhouses" views greenhouses as "energy objects" which prioritize the un-ending improvements of efficiency, production, and extracting more and more from nature.
More #SCMS23 updates: session G23 on Digital Political Economies
Starting out with Sarah Edwards surveying apps like “Fuck you pay me” designed for influencers to manage payments and make their labor more visible.
She’s also trying to set the record for most times “fuck” is said in a presentation
And now another powerhouse UW-Madison presentation: Lesley Stevenson analyzing iCarly (2007) and iCarly (2021) and their depictions of precarious creative labor
And the final paper on this panel, Patrick Vonderau’s “Grey Zone Research: An Ethnography of Big Tech Lobbying”
As what should come as no surprise, mega tech companies actively try to influence political processes. Tech lobbying to the EU is more money than the pharmaceutical or oil industries
This morning with the sweetest four year old boy:
*dances like mad to 9 To 5*
“Mama can there be more 9 to 5s?”
“I’m…not sure what you mean, boo. There’s kind of infinite 9 to 5s.”
“Like more of dis. Songs. Dat lady songs.”
“Dolly Parton? Yeah, baby. There’s a few more.”
Five minutes later: “MAMA WHAT’S A JOLENE?”
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