Book notes: Environmental Communication and Children: Media, Young Audiences, and the More-Than-Human World by Erin Hawley

IF 1.8 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION European Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI:10.1177/02673231231188418b
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income. The key questions the book attempts to answer are: ‘how and under what conditions basic human information-seeking activities have been commodified and subordinated to capital in the first place, how search was transformed into a global industry that has accelerated the commodification and commercialization of the Internet and the accumulation of capital, and how it has turned into a new geopolitical focal point of the Internet’ (p. 3). The book is split into Introduction, five substantive chapters and Conclusion. Chapter 1, ‘Searching for Profits’, offers a history of search engine development and ‘shows that search engine technology itself did not inherently have economic value’ (p. 16). Chapter 2, ‘Situating Search’, discusses search’s place within the broader political economy of the Internet. Chapter 3, ‘Laboring behind search’, explores the division of labour behind the search engine. Chapter 4, ‘Digital Welfare Capitalism’, ‘extends the analysis of the labor process to an examination of the methods of labor management and control employed by Google, which sets the trends for the wider industry’ (p. 18). The author reminds us that Google has a reputation for motivating its workforce through giving its highly paid workers ‘unprecedented freedom and ... a voice in the company’ (p. 18). Yeo draws historical parallels to an earlier industrial era. The final substantive chapter, ‘Market Dynamics and Geopolitics’, investigates the transnational nature of Internet industries and the role of geopolitics and transnational capitalism. All in all, this is a fascinating book well worth a read.
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《环境传播与儿童:媒体、年轻观众和超越人类的世界》,Erin Hawley著
收入这本书试图回答的关键问题是:“人类的基本信息寻求活动最初是如何以及在什么条件下被商品化并服从于资本的,搜索是如何转变为一个加速互联网商品化和商业化以及资本积累的全球产业的,以及它是如何成为互联网新的地缘政治焦点的”(第3页)。本书分为引言、五个实质性章节和结语。第1章“寻找利润”介绍了搜索引擎的发展历史,并“表明搜索引擎技术本身并不具有内在的经济价值”(第16页)。第二章,“情境搜索”,讨论了搜索在更广泛的互联网政治经济中的地位。第三章“搜索背后的劳动”探讨了搜索引擎背后的劳动分工。第4章,“数字福利资本主义”,“将对劳动过程的分析扩展到对谷歌使用的劳动管理和控制方法的研究,这为更广泛的行业设定了趋势”(第18页)。作者提醒我们,谷歌以给予高薪员工前所未有的自由和。。。公司的声音”(第18页)。杨将历史与早期工业时代相提并论。最后一个实质性章节,“市场动力学和地缘政治”,调查了互联网行业的跨国性质以及地缘政治和跨国资本主义的作用。总而言之,这是一本非常值得一读的引人入胜的书。
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期刊介绍: The European Journal of Communication is interested in communication research and theory in all its diversity, and seeks to reflect and encourage the variety of intellectual traditions in the field and to promote dialogue between them. The Journal reflects the international character of communication scholarship and is addressed to a global scholarly community. Rigorously peer-reviewed, it publishes the best of research on communications and media, either by European scholars or of particular interest to them.
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