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SAC Speaker Series Presents NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis Andrew Ross

"High Culture/Hard Labor: Looking Beyond the Creatives"
Friday, April 7, 2017
1:30-3:00 PM
250 Hutchins Hall Map
Recent writing about “creative labor” has helped us to understand how “working for exposure” has become a central economic principle of the media and knowledge industries. But this focus on the attention economy has neglected how the “groundstaff” are employed to construct and maintain our brand-name institutions. How can arts and media activists turn such institutions into communities of conscience where the rights of all workers are upheld?
Building: Hutchins Hall
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Economics, Lecture, Media, Public Policy, Scholarship
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Department of Film, Television, and Media, The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Comparative Literature, Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, Michigan Anthropology Graduate Association, Department of American Culture, Department of History, Communication and Media, Department of English Language and Literature