(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
Brooke Erin Duffy
Abstract
Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social media platforms—from blogs to YouTube to Instagram—in hopes of channeling their talents into fulfilling careers. This book draws much-needed attention to the gap between the handful who find lucrative careers and the rest, whose “passion projects” amount to free work for corporate brands. The book offers fascinating insights into the work and lives of fashion bloggers, beauty vloggers, and designers. It connects the activities of these women to larger shifts in unpaid and gendered labor, offering a l ... More
Keywords: digital society, social media, women, fashion bloggers, beauty vloggers, designers, gendered labor, unpaid labor
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300218176 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2018 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300218176.001.0001 |
