Academic Labor The Politics Of Academic Labor In Communication Studies Jonathan Sterne by Jonathan Sterne, Thomas A. Discenna, Et Al.inscribe Digital|usc Annenberg Press||adult Nonfictioneducationlanguage(s): Englishon Sale Date: 28.08.2013street Date: 28.08.2013 9781625171764, 1625171765 instant download after payment.

21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in the field of communication studies. From defunding of universities to the real dilemmas facing administrators: from the changing politics of careers to the ways that gender and class play out for faculty and students; from the types of work that get published and promoted to the tyranny of PowerPoint; from the politics of fundraising, to the devolution of administration, to the role of unions in universities. The authors provide plenty of proposals and programs for change, from small but meaningful gestures to activist programs for pedagogy and research, to massive proposals for organizing ourselves and transforming the ways our departments and fields do business. In the process, they raise even more provocative questions. Authors consider a host of issues big and small, from defunding of universities to the real dilemmas facing administrators: from the changing politics of careers to the ways that gender and...