Work and Sensibilities: Commodification and Processes of Expropriation Around Digital Labour

Scríbano, Adrián; Lisdero, Pedro Matías

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“…It expresses the basic relations of economic exploitation, cultural alienation and political domination (Van den Ecker and Sevignani 2020 ), despite its updated “spirit”. In this sense, we can assert that the convergence between “industry 4.0” and the globalisation of digital consumption corroborates forms of exploitation through the restructuring of the politics of sensibilities (Scribano and Lisdero 2019 ), whose narratives are incessantly re-created in social networks.…”

Section: Some Starting Points: Training Emotions Through Social Network In Contexts Metamorphosis Of Workmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Another element that we need to highlight to complete our conceptual framework is the metamorphosis of work in the “4.0 Societies” (Scribano and Lisdero 2019 ). Such a designation has to do with the place occupied by the internet and “the digital” in the processes of interaction and socialisation with great predominance in the present.…”

Section: Some Starting Points: Training Emotions Through Social Network In Contexts Metamorphosis Of Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a complement to the virtual ethnography strategy, and taking up some contributions from the field of visual studies (Scribano and Lisdero 2019 ), we deployed an ethnographic observation strategy in a running group and in a gymnasium. The observation guide recovered the general guidelines exposed for virtual ethnography, however, we also incorporated here a premise that has to do with the possibility of producing photographic-images in the fieldwork (stressing the records of images obtained from social networks).…”

Section: Some Starting Points: Training Emotions Through Social Network In Contexts Metamorphosis Of Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Work, training and social sensibilities: analysis from the experiences of fit-fluencers

Lisdero

Duperré

2021

SN Soc Sci

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The article aims to reflect on the transformations that have taken place in the “world of work”, based on their connections with the way in which subjects “train themselves”. In the interstices between “work time” and “leisure/training time”, some important characteristics of current body politics (the ways in which societies accept the distribution and use of bodies and their energies) become visible. Specifically, we explore here the emerging phenomenon of “fit-influencers”, contemporary referents of the “virtual” scene (social networks) through the promotion of sports and eating routines. In this sense, our corpus of analysis has been constructed from an ethnographic work located in Argentina, from which narratives that these actors present in social networks (Virtual Ethnography), and in situations of in-depth interviews, are recovered. These narratives allow us to understand the social sensibilities associated with these practices, enabling us to link the emergence and expansion of fit-influencers with a process of renewal of the “spirit of capitalism” (sensu Weber), which would translate into an updating of the “political economy of morality” (Scribano in ¡Disfrútalo! Una aproximación a la economía política de la moral desde el consumo, Elalephcom, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 2015). To be clearer, “political economy of morality” refers to a series of mechanisms of social domination and exploitation of bodily energies, which are legitimised as moral principles associated with enjoyment through consumption. The final reflections we present are oriented towards thinking about how the new “digital gurus” of routines and “homemade” prescriptions become guarantors of the organisation of work, by establishing parameters for the management of bodies and emotions that are associated to a “renewed” order of accumulation.

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Section: Some Starting Points: Training Emotions Through Social Network In Contexts Metamorphosis Of Workmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Some Starting Points: Training Emotions Through Social Network In Contexts Metamorphosis Of Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Some Starting Points: Training Emotions Through Social Network In Contexts Metamorphosis Of Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Work, training and social sensibilities: analysis from the experiences of fit-fluencers

Lisdero

Duperré

2021

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“…A virtual ethnography presents several advantages for the analysis in question: it is a methodology that, in 4.0 societies (Scribano and Lisdero, 2019), adapts to the transformations of the 21 st century; it allows us to have updated and almost immediate information on the interactions related to social policies; and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it provides an opportunity to draw attention to and show the potential of ‘other’ tools linked to social policies.…”

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About Waiting: A Reading from Social Policies and Emotions in the Context of a Pandemic

Cena

Dettano

2022

Social Policy and Society

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The pandemic declared in 2020 has implied extreme transformations. In the Argentine case, measures were announced to provide relief to the sectors defined as the most affected, within which the so-called emergency family income (EFI) was established. The EFI’s management, implementation, access and collection method underwent a digitalisation process, enabling access through official and nonofficial channels. The nonofficial channels include Facebook Groups, where the recipients of social policies exchange information, doubts and advice. This article, based on virtual ethnography, aims to explore the emotions linked to the management and perception of EFI. In particular, we address a practice that has become relevant in the aforementioned context: waiting. It has been observed that the barriers between registration and access to the EFI transfer have implied different types of waiting on the part of the receiving population. We conclude that waiting has become an operative element in the implementation of social policies.

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Work and Sensibilities: Commodification and Processes of Expropriation Around Digital Labour

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Work, training and social sensibilities: analysis from the experiences of fit-fluencers

Work, training and social sensibilities: analysis from the experiences of fit-fluencers

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