The digital society is a class society, follow the "labor turn" to work in the DMEI -- What are the digital media and entertainment industries (DMEI)? 14 convergent industry groups, central to modern work -- What is work? meanings, matters, motivations -- What is research on work in the DMEI? Theories, methods, for workers -- How capitalism shapes work in the DMEI 7 logics of labor and life -- How does the state govern work in the DMEI? Explicit and tacit labor law, policy, regulation -- What is the management of work in the DMEI? Putting decision-making power, soft power and hard power to work -- Is meritocracy at work in the DMEI? Intersectional inequality, with distinction -- What is the globalization of work in the DMEI? Outsourced hardware, software, content and service -- What is the automation of work in the DMEI? Labor saving technologies (LSTs) and labor processes -- What is the platformization of work in the DMEI? Creator capitalism -- Is work in the DMEI 'free'? Audience commodities, social media users, brand loyal fans, crowdsourced task-takers, interns and athletes -- Is work in the DMEI "good"? For a reflexive normative framework -- What are workers doing to make the DMEI's future of work better for all? Collective actions, strategies, tactics.

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"This book is a first of its kind critical inter-disciplinary introduction to the economic, political, cultural, and technological dimensions of work in the rapidly growing digital media and entertainment industries (DMEI). Tanner Mirrlees presents a comprehensive guide to understanding the key contexts, theories, methods, debates and struggles surrounding work in the DMEI. Packed with current examples and accessible research findings, the book highlights the changing conditions and experiences of work in the DMEI. It surveys the DMEI's key sectors and occupations, and considers the complex intersections between labour and social power relations of class, gender, and race, as well as tensions between creativity and commerce, freedom and control, meritocracy and hierarchy, and precarity and equity, diversity, and inclusivity. Chapters also explore how work in the DMEI is being reshaped by capitalism and corporations, government and policies, management, globalization, platforms, A.I., and worker collectives such as unions and cooperatives. This book is a critical introduction to this growing area of research, teaching, learning, life, labour, and organizing, with an eye to understanding work in the DMEI and changing it, for the better. Offering a broad overview of the field, this textbook is an indispensable resource for instructors, undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars"--