This post was written by Tristan Bannerman a Research Master’s student at the University of Amsterdam. A major theme of the recent GDC conference Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production was that of the sense of insecurity in labor and life that we find online, more succinctly we would say precarity. Precariousness in many…
This post was written by Nadia Murady, a Research Master’s student at the University of Amsterdam. The conference ‘Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production’ addressed a wide range of issues and research areas. The two-day conference aimed to highlight a global perspective on these topics, steering away from a Eurocentric perspective. It facilitated an…
This post is written by Sara Gelao, a Research Master’s student at the University of Amsterdam. Introduction Labor: digital, relational, immaterial, affective, cognitive, precarious, cultural, creative, free. All these buzzwords are an attempt to define what labor is today, fluid as it is. None of them is mutually exclusive, in fact, they all co-exist. What…
This post was written by Sarah Vorndran, a Research Master’s student in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. And so it dawned on me – We have entered the era of the DAW Trying to achieve hip-hop’s beloved flow without a beat is like boiling pasta without water – it is possible but hardly…