New book review in Cultural Trends

Sally Robinson reviews Mark Deuze’s Well-Being and Creative Careers, exploring the tensions between creative fulfilment, precarity, and wellbeing.

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#CulturalTrends #BookReview #CreativeLabour

LATENT_SAPCE

You built it.

They compressed it.

Now they charge you a ticket to travel the space you built.

#LatentSpace #LOOKAWAY #CreativeLabour

The human cost of harvesting emotion: AI firms court performers for training data Tech firms are hiring improvisational performers to generate unscripted training data that teaches AI systems to understand human emotion. But who benefits?

The human cost of harvesting emotion: AI firms court performers for training data

#AI #CreativeLabour #ArtistRights #GenAI #AusNews

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Our article bridges Varieties of Capitalism and Crozier’s Strategic Actor Theory, showing how despite institutional barriers and occupational fragmentation, the pandemic created opportunities for workers to engage with unions. #creativelabour #tradeunions #economicsociology

##defaangAI #AI #CreativeLabour

OnlineFirst - "The mobilities of visual artists: The case of South Africa" by Brian J Hracs, Irma Booyens, Roberta Comunian, and Taylor Brydges:

#mobilities #locationalchoice #visualartists #creativelabour #SouthAfrica

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Dark blue text on light blue background: Why creative labour isn’t always seen as “real work” – and what that means for artists and designers. Phrase "Real Work" in yellow.

🔵🟡 Why creative labour isn’t always seen as “real work” – and what that means for artists and designers
by @JulienPosture at @itsnicethat
#CreativeIndustry #CreativeLabour #Artist #Designer

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