The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies

Jonathan Sterne

• Publisher: USC Annenberg Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781625171764
• Year: 2015

Edited by Jonathan Sterne, The Politics of Academic Labor in Communications Studies features 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in our field. We may have learned to speak of our work as a calling, but it is also a job. Our jobs are changing, and there are fewer of them. What is to be done? English, history and anthropology have rich discussions of the politics of academic labor; it's time for people in communication studies to join them in reflections on the future of universities and colleges and our place in them. These articles are meant to spur further conversation in organizing our departments, universities, and associations, as well as in coalition with others who hope to defend and advance higher education.

Table of contents

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• The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies: A Re-Introduction — JONATHAN STERNE
• Academic Labor and the Literature of Discontent in Communication — THOMAS A. DISCENNA
• The Contingency of (Some) Academic Labor: Communication Studies and the Cognitariat — TOBY MILLER
• The Uneasy Institutional Position of Communication and Media Studies and Its Impact on Academic Labor — MICHAEL GRIFFIN
• First They Came for Everyone: The Assault on Civil Society is an Injury to All — VICTOR PICKARD
• Who’s Sitting in the President’s Box?: Development and the Neoliberal University — CAROL STABILE
• Reflecting on Academic Labor from the Other Side — FERNANDO P. DELGADO
• Confessions of a Reluctant Manager in the Academic Labor System — ANONYMOUS
• Administration in the Neo-Liberal World — ANONYMOUS
• Four Myths About Academic Labor — AMY M. PASON
• Of Careers and Curricula Vitae: Losing Track of Academic Professionalism — KATHLEEN F. MCCONNELL
• Feminist Labor in Media Studies/Communication: Is Self-Branding Feminist Practice? — SARAH BANET-WEISER, ALEXANDRA JUHASZ
• PowerPoint and Labor in the Mediated Classroom — IRA WAGMAN, MICHAEL Z. NEWMAN
• Canned Courses: Lecture Capture, Podcasting and the Transformations of Academic Labor — MARK HAYWARD
• The Visible College — TED STRIPHAS
• Negotiating Labor and Management in the French Context — JAYSON HARSIN
• Media Pranks: A Three-Act Essay — KEMBREW MCLEOD
• Product UG and Critical Visioning in Communication Studies — JOEL SAXE
• Getting to “Not Especially Strange”: Embracing Participatory-Advocacy Communication Research for Social Justice — MICHELLE RODINO-COLOCINO