The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34Z_OP_A2089
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield International
- ISBN
- 978-1-78661-250-2
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph (155pp), which is based on the author’s PhD, explores the current realities of cultural work by focusing on expertise. Drawing on interviews with 18 cultural workers and extensive analysis of 400 plus posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the book provides an in-depth account of how cultural workers signal expertise on social media. It contributes new perspectives to cultural labour studies, especially in the areas of expertise and inequality. It also offers a new qualitative framework for analysing expertise signals on social media, and provides the first sustained critique of the role of social media in cultural work.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This project advances previous documentaries on Canadian cinema that Mendik completed (2016), while seeking to add new knowledge to academic debates around Quebecois filmmaking and indigenous filmmaking that apply to horror cinema. Currently, accounts of Canadian horror (Vatnsdal 2004, Mathijs 2008 and Freitag & Loiselle 2015) fail to fully situate these studies against the regionalised tensions that underpin these creations. Equally, while discussions of indigeneity are embedded within academic examinations of Canadian cinema (Gittings 2002), they remain isolated within ethnographic considerations, whereas the documentary provides a primary consideration of indigenous/diasporic trends in Canadian horror.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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