Laura Portwood-Stacer on the Stakes of Media Refusal

This is one of the best things I’ve read on social media refusal. Lisa Nakamura made similar points informally many years ago, but Portwood-Stacer has gone a long distance in theorizing the stakes of refusal for those invested in care work, for identity, community, or wages.

To resist what we might identify as an exploitative labor relation by walking off the job—by refusing social media participation—would mean giving up at least two sources of value that settle on the workers themselves…Professional and Social Payoffs

Read Care Work and the Stakes of Social Media Refusal at The New Criticals

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  1. Zelda says:

    Fascinating, and certainly jibes with how I see a great deal of social media, especially those that require/expect us to traffic under our “real names”. Which these days is most of them. I note that there is still no wage for the caring labor of housework and (more importantly) child-rearing, which doesn’t bode well for getting same in the realm of social media.