Week |
Topic |
Content and Reading Assignment |
Teaching Activities and Homework |
Student workload expectation |
In-class Hours |
Outside-of-class Hours |
1
(9/17) |
Introduction:
Key Issues in the Study of Labor Migration and Digital Media |
Prinsloo, Mastin
2017 Spatiotemporal Scales and the Study of Mobility. In The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language. Suresh Canagarajah, ed. Pp. 364-380.
Nyiri, Pal
2010 Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China.
[Read]
Chapter 1: Internal Migration in Reform China.
Chapter 2: International Migration from China. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
2 |
2
(9/24) |
Labor, Ideology and Political Economy in the Age of Social Media |
Fuchs, Christian
2015 Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media. New York: Routledge.
[Read]
Chapter 2: Culture and Work. (by Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval)
Chapter 3: Communication, Ideology, and Labour
Chapter 4: Social Media and Labour Time |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
3
(10/1) |
Mid-Autumn Festival |
(No Class) |
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4
(10/8) |
Productive Labor and Social Media |
Fuchs, Christian
2015 Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media.
[Read]
Chapter 5: Social Media and Productive Labour
Chapter 6: Social Media’s International Division of Digital Labour.
Chapter 7: Baidu, Weibo, and Renren: The Global Political Economy of
Social Media in China.
Terranova, Tiziana
2000 Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy. Social Text 18(2): 33-58. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
5
(10/15) |
Digital Labor, Exploitation and Informational Capitalism |
Calvão, Filipe
2016 “Unfree Labor.” Annual Review of Anthropology 45: 451-472.
De Kosnik, Abigail
2013 Fandom as Free Labor. In Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory. Trebor Scholz, ed. Pp. 98-111.
Fuchs, Christian
2014 Digital Labor and Karl Marx.
[Read]
Chapter 11: Theorizing Digital Labour on Social Media. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
6
(10/22) |
Digital Working Class and Migrant Workers in China |
Dai, X.
2003 ICTs in China’s Development Strategy. In China and the Internet Politics of the Digital Leap Forward. C. R. Hughes and G. Wacker, eds. Pp. 8-29.
Qiu, Jack Linchuan
2009 Working-class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China.
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Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
7
(10/29) |
Migration, Precarity and (Dis)empowerment |
Han, Clara
2018 Precarity, Precariousness, and Vulnerability. Annual Review of Anthropology 47: 331-343.
Schierup, Carl-Ulrik and Martin Bak Jørgensen
2018 From ‘Social Exclusion’ to ‘Precarity’. The Becoming-migrant of Labour: An Introduction. In Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences. Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen, eds. Pp. 1-29.
Chicago: Haymarket Books.
Lee, Ching Kwan
2016 Precarization or Empowerment? Reflections on Recent Labor Unrest in China. The Journal of Asian Studies 75(2): 317-333. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
8
(11/5) |
Female Migrant Labor, Suzhi Discourse and Post-socialist China |
Yan, Hairong
2008 New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China. Durham: Duke University Press.
[Read]
Chapter 3: Suzhi as a New Value: Neoliberal Governance of Labor Migration.
Kipnis, Andrew
2007 Neoliberalism Reified: Suzhi Discourse and Tropes of Neoliberalism in the People’s Republic of China. Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute
13(2): 383-400.
Gaetano, Arianne M.
2015 Out to Work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China. University of Hawaii Press. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
9
(11/12) |
Migration, Transnational Family and Care |
Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie
2018 The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
10
(11/19) |
Migrants, Family, Feminism and Masculinity |
Binah-Pollak, Avital
2019 Cross-border Marriages and Mobility: Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Lin, Xiaodong
2013 Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China: Becoming a 'Modern' Man.
Newendrop, Nicole D.
2008 Uneasy Renions: Immigration, Citizenship and Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong.
Chapter 1: Split-Families, Reunited Families and Political Difference.
Chapter 2: The Moral and Legal Landscape of Reuniting Families in Hong Kong.
Chapter 3: Mainland Wives, Hong Kong Husbands. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
11
(11/26) |
Midterm Exam |
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3 |
8 |
12
(12/3) |
Migrants, Gender and Technomobility |
Wallis, Cara
2013 Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
13
(12/10) |
Affective Labor, Gender and Photography |
Lukács, Gabriella
2020 Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy.
Chapter 1: Disidentifications: Women, Photography and Everyday Patriarchy.
Chapter 2: The Labor of Cute: New Idols in the Digital Economy.
Chapter 5: Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Affective Labor and Precarity Politics.
Conclusion: Digital Labor, Labor Precarity and Basic Income. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
14
(12/17) |
Digital Labor, Gig Economy and Platform Economy |
Rosenbalt, Alex
2018 Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work.
Chapter 1: Driving as Glamorous Labor.
Chapter 2: Motivations to Drive.
Chapter 5: Behind the Curtain.
Scholz, Trebor
2016 Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy.
[Read]
Chapter 1: Waged Labor and the End of Employment.
Widlok, Thomas
2017 Anthropology and The Economy of Sharing. London: Routledge.
Chapter 6: Introducing the Sharing Economy. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
15
(12/24) |
Digital Nationalism, Sovereignty and Governmentality |
Schneider, Florian
2018 China’s Digital Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[Read]
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Nationalism and Its Digital Modes.
Chapter 4: Digital China’s Hyperlink Networks.
Chapter 8: The Cultural Governance of Digital China. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
16
(12/31) |
Rural Migrants and Factory Town |
Gong, Yue
2018 Manufacturing Towns in China: The Governance of Rural Migrant Workers.
[Read]
Chapter 1: Introduction: Governance, Rural Migrants and Manufacturing Towns.
Chapter 7: As Eco-High-Tech Town: Governing Rural Migrants to Become Skilled Workers.
Zavoretti, Roberta
2017 Rural Origins, City Lives: Class and Place in Contemporary China.
[Read]
Introduction: The Paradigm of Rural to Urban Migration in Contemporary
China.
Chapter 1: Who is a Peasant Worker? |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
17
(1/7) |
Foreign Migrants and Urban Otherness |
Mathews, Gordon, Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang
2017 The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
[Read]
Introduction.
Chapter 2: Foreigners in Guangzhou.
Chapter 5: Legal-Illegal in Guangzhou. |
Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
8 |
18
(1/14) |
Final Project In-class Presentation |
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