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Teaching Activities and Homework
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Student workload expectation
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Outside-of-class Hours
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1
(2/21)
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Conceptualizing Migration and Labor in the Digital/Chip Era
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Introduction
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3
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2
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2
(2/28)
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National Holiday
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3
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8
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3
(3/7)
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Labor, Ideology and Political Economy in the Age of Social Media
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Fuchs, Christian
2015 Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media. New York: Routledge.
[Read]
Chapter 3: Communication, Ideology, and Labour.
Chapter 4: Social Media and Labour Time.
Ticona, Julia
2022 Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Chapter 1: The Digital Hustle.
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Presentation and Discussion
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3
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8
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4
(3/14)
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Platform Economy and Sharing Economy
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Vallas, Steven and Juliet B. Schor
2020 What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy. Annual Review of Sociology 46: 273-294.
Chen, Julie Yujie
2020 The Mirage and Politics of Participation in China’s Platform Economy. Javnost: The Public 27(2): 154-170.
Schor, Juliet B. and Steven P. Vallas
2021 The Sharing Economy: Rhetoric and Reality. Annual Review of Sociology 47: 369-389.
Schinkel, Willem
2023 Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms. Annual Review of Anthropology 52:171-186.
Liao, Sara
2024 The Platformization of Misogyny: Popular Media, Gender Politics, and Misogyny in China’s State-Market Nexus. Media, Culture & Society 46(1): 191-203.
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Presentation and Discussion
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3
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8
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5
(3/21)
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Digital Labor, Exploitation and Informational Capitalism
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Fuchs, Christian
2014 Digital Labor and Karl Marx. London: Routledge.
Chapter 11: Theorizing Digital Labour on Social Media.
Rouse, Lauren and Anastasia Salte
2021 Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur. Social
Media+Society
Wong, J., Lee, C., Long, V. K., Wu, D., & Jones, G. M.
2021 “Let’s Go, Baby Forklift!”: Fandom Governance and the Political Power of Cuteness in China. Social Media + Society 7(2).
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Presentation and Discussion
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3
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8
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6
(3/28)
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Labor, Precarity and (Dis)empowerment
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Han, Clara
2018 Precarity, Precariousness, and Vulnerability. Annual Review of Anthropology 47: 331-343.
Huang, Hui
2021 Riders on the Storm: Amplified Platform Precarity and the Impact of COVID-19 on
Online Food-delivery Drivers in China. Journal of Contemporary China.
Stead, Victoria
2021 Precarity’s Reach: Intersections of History, Life, and Labour in the Australian Horticultural Industry. Journal of Royal Anthropological Association 27(2): 303-320.
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Presentation and Discussion
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3
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8
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7
(4/4)
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National Holiday
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3
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8
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8
(4/11)
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Digital Working Class, Labor and Migrants
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Qiu, Jack Linchuan
2018 China’s Digital Working Class and Circuits of Labor. Communication and the Public
3(1): 5-18.
Soriano, Cheryll Ruth R
2021 Digital Labour in the Philippines: Emerging Forms of Brokerage. Media International
Australia 179(1): 23-37.
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Presentation and Discussion
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3
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8
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9
(4/18)
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Return Migration, Homelands and (Im)mobilities
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Hagan, Jacqueline Maria and Joshua Thomas Wassink
2020 Return Migration Around the World: An Integrated Agenda for Future Research.
Annual Review of Sociology 46: 533-552.
Ling, Minhua
2024 Reconfiguring Home: Rural-Bound Return and Translocal Householding in Postreform China. In States of Return: Rethinking Migration and Mobility. Deborah A. Boehm and Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar, eds. Pp. 166-186. New York: NYU Press.
Pido, Eric J.
2017 Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity. Durham:
Duke University Press.
Chapter 5: The Balikbayan House: The Precarity of Return Migrant Homes.
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Presentation and Discussion
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6
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8
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10
(4/25)
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Migrants, Gender Politics and Affective Labor
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Wallis, Cara
2018 Domestic Workers and the Affective Dimensions of Communicative Empowerment.
Communication, Culture, and Critique 11(2): 213-230.
Ip, Penn Tsz Ting
2017 Desiring Singlehood? Rural Migrant Women and Affective Labour in the Shanghai Beauty Parlour Industry. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 18(4): 558-580.
Mankekar, Purnima and Akhil Gupta
2016 Intimate Encounters: Affective Labor in Call Centers. Positions 24 (1): 17-43.
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Presentation and Discussion
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6
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8
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11
(5/2)
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Migration, Transnational Family and Care
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Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie
2018 The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Introduction: Filipinos Transnational Families and New Caring Strategies.
Chapter 1: Multidirectional Care in Transnational Families.
Yu, Haiqing, Ge Zhang and Larissa Hjorth
2023 Mobilizing Care? WeChat for Older Adults’ Digital Kinship and Informal Care in
Wuhan Households. Mobile Media and Communication 11(2)
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Presentation and Discussion
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6
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8
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12
(5/9)
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Care, Work and Feeling Machines
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Bender, Shawn
2024 Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-
Human Care. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Introduction: Care Robotics 1.0
Chapter 2: Feeling Machines in Robot Towns
Chapter3: Tinkering with Care
Chapter 4: Embracing Paro
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Presentation and Discussion
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6
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8
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13
(5/16)
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Social Media Influencer and Youtube
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Bollmer, Grant and Katherine Guinness
2024 The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Introduction
Chapter 1: House
Chapter 2: Car
Chapter 5: Corpocene
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Presentation and Discussion
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3
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8
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14
(5/23)
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Rethinking Migration, Labor and Return
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Morton, Gregory D.
2024 Return from the World: Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil. The University of Chicago Press.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Phone Call Home
Chapter 2: The Roads
Chapter 5: The Money
Chapter 6: The Things You Hold
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Presentation and Discussion
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3
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8
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15
(5/30)
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National Holiday
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3
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8
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16
(6/6)
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Final Project Presentation
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8
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