Media WorkISBN: 978-0-7456-3925-3
Paperback
288 pages
September 2007, Polity
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European Journal of Communication
"A comprehensive account of what working in the media today
entails ... Media Work is well researched and insightful. On
the heels of the recent screenwriters' strike in the USA, it is
relevant and specific to the creative industry but offers pertinent
observations that are useful far beyond the field of media."
Work, Employment and Society
“Mark Deuze is one of the best young media theorists
working today and his compelling new book does a magisterial job of
laying out the field of current discourse on digital media issues
and suggesting their far-reaching implications for every aspect of
modern life. Deuze moves fluidly between different media sectors,
mixes and matches perspectives on media production (including work
on labor) with perspectives on media audiences and their
activities, engages with work on new media but then applies it to
more traditional media, and does so without recourse to
predetermined ideological perspectives and specialized language.
This book will frame key debates in the field for some time to
come.”
Henry Jenkins, MIT
“Mark Deuze offers a guidebook to navigate us through the
‘mashup’ of everyday life and media content, production
and consumption, globalization and the local, work and leisure,
authenticity and artefact. His book is a timely corrective to the
popular dream of cultural employment, and offers insight into a
society characterized by instability and destabilization, speed,
precariousness and a continual over spilling of the domains of work
and life.”
Andy C. Pratt, London School of Economics
“Work and meaning - economy and culture - are more
integrated than ever. As audiences and consumers we revel in media;
as workforce and citizens we’re at risk from them. In this
well-researched and original book Mark Deuze shows how the creative
industries work and what it is like to work in them. What he calls
‘media life’ is mobile, convergent, semi-permanent and
precarious. It can be tough too, when you - and your income - are
only as good as your last idea.”
John Hartley, Queensland University of Technology