Slides for the 'media life' course at the University of Amsterdam, specifically on trends affecting work across the media industries.

1. Media Life
Inleiding Mediacultuur I
09 Media Industries
#medialife #IMCI

3. © Thomas Hawk

5. media system
media institutions
media production
media professionals

6. media system

18. media system
media institutions
media production
media professionals

19. media institutions

20. industry hourglass structure

25. new international division of cultural labor
NIDCL:

26. media system
media institutions
media production
media professionals

27. media production

28. content a-la-carte
content everywhere
content for free
content by users
content goes global
content about content

29. convergence culture

30. Crossmedia

32. Transmedia

34. the algorithmic turn

35. the innovation dilemma

36. media system
media institutions
media production
media professionals

37. media professionals

39. Professional
Identity
Content
Commerce
Connectivity
Creativity

40. flexibility

41. Good Work Bad Work
good wages/working
hours
workplace/creative
autonomy
interest, involvement
sociality
self-esteem
self-realization
work-life balance
security
product excellence
product contributing to
the common good
poor wages/working
hours
powerlessness
boredom
isolation
shame
frustrated development
overwork
risk
low-quality products
products do not
contribute to well-
being of others

42. rise of semi-permanent work groups

44. organized networks

45. networking the value chain

46. portfolio careers & cross-subsidized workstyles

47. precarity

48. precarity

49. precarity

50. “Casualization profoundly
affects the person who
suffers it: by making the
whole future uncertain, it
prevents all rational
anticipation, and, in
particular, the basic belief
and hope in the future that
one needs in order to be
able to rebel, especially
collectively, against
present conditions, even
the most intolerable.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)