Thread by @TMirrlees_

1) A #Laborday list of books that recognize the immense labour that makes communications, digital technologies, and media- culture (and with gratitude to labour of all the social science and humanities researchers who have long been at the forefront of producing this knowledge).

2) some early openings in the field @Ursulahuws @Vmosco @CMckercher @markdeuze @MarkOliverBanks

3) Not doing the "Florida thing" with the cultural and creative industries Andrew Ross @ProfKateOakley @oconnorjustin13 @angelamcrobbie @rmax @markbank @nicole_s_cohen @enda_b

4) managing media / technologies of media management @markdeuze @melgregg @MarkAndrejevic @msteinbrg @woshihama @FlewTerry

5) the industry sectors, circuits and logics of producing, distributing, promoting, and exhibiting media and cultural goods @IAMCR_X @jenholt13 @aperren @hesmondthing @Anamik1977

6) the ideas, roles and goals of cultural policy linked to conditions of media and cultural work @ProfKateOakley @lazebnic @greencitizen David Throsby

7) the international division of audio-visual entertainment labor @IAMCR_X @greg_elmer @greencitizen @rmax Vicki Mayer @mmmbanksy @SerraTinic @ksanson Michael Curtin

8) global digital capitalism and Silicon Valley hardware, software and service outsourcing David Pellow Lisa Sun-Hee Park Jenny Chan Mark Seldon Pun Ngai @enda_b Nick Dyer-Witheford

9) Digital gig economy / digital media labor @TreborS Brian Dolber @ProfTWolf @catchatweetdown Michelle Rodino-Colicino @kylzjarrett @jamie_woodcock @geoplace

10) Technologies, A.I., automation (labour saving-killing technologies, etc.) Nick Dyer-Witheford @JamesSteinhof17 @atlemk @adelfanti Greg Albo Leo Panitch

11) digital games workers! Greig de Peuter @jamie_woodcock @ergincloud @accote @GameWorkers @DanjoKaz00ie

12) Journalists, new media makers and creative interns! @nicole_s_cohen @Ursulahuws @enda_b @tccorrigan1

13) Advertising, the audience commodity and its work, from watching TV broadcasting to tweeting. Dallas Smythe @EileenRMeehan Graham Murdock Oscar Gandy @sutjhallyumass @pmnapoli @fuchschristian Vincent Manzerolle @mediated1 @DanjoKaz00ie

14) influencers, platform cultural producers, creator-entrepreneurs, and content moderators @gamespacenl @tpoell @brookeerinduffy @Producing2Power @SDCunningham @marylgray @ssuri @ubiquity75

15) shifting cultures of life-work-time @SennettRichard @sarahljaffe @sarahrsharma Jonathan Crary

16) (mis)representations of workers, labour and class by the products of the media and cultural industries @ProfOuellette @chrismartim100 @ProfessorKumar @LynnSchofClark Radhika Gajjala

17) From learning about labour in the media, cultural and digital technology industries to organizing and empowering workers @nicole_s_cohen @gavinmuellerphd @MarkOliverBanks @reaganrevoltion

18) I've been teaching a course on work and labour in the media and cultural industries for 10 years and have been writing a textbook for 4 of them (long overdue, but trying to complete soon). Please recommend more books and I'll do my best to cite. Happy #LabourDay2022!