“Prove You're Human”: Fetishizing Material Embodiment and Immaterial Labor in Information Networks

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 365-379

  Foley, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body; Fetish; Information; Labor; Posthuman

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919421406     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2014.939682     Document Type: Article

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