Gabriella Lukacs

Invisibility by Design

Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

Gabriella Lukács traces how young Japanese women's unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, â girlyâ photographers, online traders, and cell phone novelists was central to the development of Japan's digital economy in the 1990s and 2000s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781478005810
• ISBN-10: 1478005815
• Artikelnr.: 56712529

Autorenporträt

Gabriella Lukács is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Labor and Gender in Japan's Digital Economy  1
1. Disidentifications: Women, Photography, and Everyday Patriarchy  30
2. The Labor of Cute: Net Idols in the Digital Economy  57
3. Career Porn: Blogging and the Good Life  81
4. Working without Sweating: Amateur Traders and the Financialization of
Daily Life  106
5. Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Affective Labor, and Precarity
Politics  132
Epilogue. Digital Labor, Labor Precarity, and Basic Income 155
Notes  167
References  207
Index  225