In this paper, we examine the process of decomposition as well as the struggle for recomposition of academic labor, which we understand as a contradictory positionality within so-called “gig academy.” Ours is a rhetorical intervention to, first of all, explicitly connect contemporary working conditions in academia to the general process of neoliberalization; second, illustrate how online education platforms (or LMS) mediate important aspects of the academic labor process; and third, reflect on how these dynamics make faculty unionizing both urgent and particularly challenging.

Briziarelli, M., Martinez Guillem, S. (2020). Against Gig Academia: Connectivity, Disembodiment, and Struggle in Online Education. COMMUNICATION EDUCATION, 69(3), 356-372 [10.1080/03634523.2020.1769848].

Against Gig Academia: Connectivity, Disembodiment, and Struggle in Online Education

Briziarelli M;
2020

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the process of decomposition as well as the struggle for recomposition of academic labor, which we understand as a contradictory positionality within so-called “gig academy.” Ours is a rhetorical intervention to, first of all, explicitly connect contemporary working conditions in academia to the general process of neoliberalization; second, illustrate how online education platforms (or LMS) mediate important aspects of the academic labor process; and third, reflect on how these dynamics make faculty unionizing both urgent and particularly challenging.
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Communication; Ideology; Knowledge Worker
English
2020
69
3
356
372
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Briziarelli, M., Martinez Guillem, S. (2020). Against Gig Academia: Connectivity, Disembodiment, and Struggle in Online Education. COMMUNICATION EDUCATION, 69(3), 356-372 [10.1080/03634523.2020.1769848].
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