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Final Project Proposal Template 2022
Student Name (or names – up to a group of 3)
What is the main reading from the list provided (or the syllabus) that you will work with for your final project? Provide full bibliographic citation (Author name, title, publication details) in MLA, APA or Chicago style.
Provide a summary of the main arguments and/or research questions of the article (about 200-300 words). Be sure to directly reference the text (quotes) as well as paraphrasing the larger ideas of the article.
What is your research plan? Keep in mind NO INTERVIEWS.
Which option are you choosing?
Option A: Essay
Option B: Creative Project + Critical Appendix
Option C: Annotated Bibliography + Conclusion/Analysis
Why are you choosing this option?
What further research will you be doing?
How will you get the work done?
If you are working in a group, what is your group work plan – who is doing what, when will you meet, how will you truly collaborate rather than just separating the work and combining at the end?
What is the title of your Final Project (you can change this later)?
What is your research question/s? Phrase the main idea/s you would like to pursue for your final project as a question or two questions. (Should be one or two sentences.)
Why do you want to pursue this research question/s? ie. Why does this research question/s matter? Should be 2-3 sentences.
How does this final project relate to course themes?
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Students must work with *at least one* text from The List below:
Intersectional Internet (e-books available at U of T Libraries) – choose a chapter from one of the following:
1. Noble,Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. (NYU Press, 2018)
2. Duarte, Marissa Elena. Network Soveriegnty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country. (University of Washington, 2017)
3. Noble, Safiya Umoja and Brendesha M. Tynes. The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online. (Peter Lang, 2016)
Labour issues/unions, etc. in legacy media
Kojola, Erik. “(Re)constructing the Pipeline: Workers, Environmentalists and Ideology in Media Coverage of the Keystone XL Pipeline.” Critical Sociology.6 (2017): 893–917.
Labour in games / playbor
Nakamura, Lisa. “Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft.” Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2 (2009): 128-144.
de Kosnik, Abigail. “Fandom as Free Labor.” In Digital Labor: The Internet as Factory & Playground. Trebor Scholtz. New York: Routledge, 2013. Available on U of T Library – Electronic Books.
Web 2.0 Labour
Fuchs, Christian. ‘Web 2.0, prosumption, and surveillance’, Surveillance & Society , 8.3 (2010): 288-309.
Coté, M. and J. Pybus. ‘Learning to immaterial labour 2.0: MySpace and social networks’, ephemera: theory and politics in organization. 7.1 (2007): 88-106.
“Free Labour”
Terranova, Tiziana. “Free Labor.” In Digital Labor: The Internet as Factory & Playground. Trebor Scholtz. New York: Routledge, 2013. Available on U of T Library – Electronic Books.
Ross, Andrew. ‘In search of the lost paycheck’. Digital labor: The Internet as playground and factory. In Digital Labor: The Internet as Factory & Playground. Trebor Scholtz. New York: Routledge, 2013. Available on U of T Library – Electronic Books.
Sports, Race + Media Work
Hartmann, Douglas. “Rethinking the Relationships between Sport and Race in American Culture: Golden Ghettos and Contested Terrain.” Sociology of Sport Journal 17, no. 3 (September 2000): 229–53.
Global distribution of “digital” labour
Look through this issue on Gender, Globalization and Media and pick an article: http://adanewmedia.org/issues/issue-archives/issue8/ (Links to an external site.)
Aytes, Ayhan. “Return of the Crowds: Mechanical Turk & Neoliberal States of Exception.” In Digital Labor: The Internet as Factory & Playground. Trebor Scholtz. New York: Routledge, 2013. Available on U of T Library – Electronic Books.
Desmond Cole, activist labour & the Toronto Star (read all three)
Brown, Jesse. “Desmond Cole: Celebrated and Resented.” Canadaland May 1 2017 http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/desmond-cole-celebrated-resented/ (Links to an external site.)
“A History of Activist Columnists at the Toronto Star” Canadaland JAMIE BRADBURN (Links to an external site.)MAY 26, 2017 http://www.canadalandshow.com/history-activist-columnists-toronto-star (Links to an external site.)/ (Links to an external site.)
“Journalists shouldn’t become the news: Public Editor” KATHY ENGLISH Public Editor Thu., May 4, 201 http://www.canadalandshow.com/history-activist-columnists-toronto-star (Links to an external site.)/ (Links to an external site.)
Content Farms / Corporate content managers / “pink slime” journalism
Cohen, Nicole S. “From Pink Slips to Pink Slime: Transforming Media Labor in a Digital Age.” The Communication Review 18, no. 2 (April 3, 2015): 98–122.
Roberts, Sarah T. Behind the Screen : Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media. Yale University Press, 2019. E-book available at U of T Press. Recommend chapter 1, chapter 2 and/or chapter 5.
Social Media and Activism
Tufekci, Zeynep. 2014. “Social Media Is a Conversation, Not a Press Release.” Medium. January 13. https://medium.com/technology-and-society/social-media-is-a-conversation-not-a-press-release-4d811b45840d (Links to an external site.)
Nesbitt Golden, Jamie & Monique Judge. “Journalism, Social Media & Ethics Part 1 & Part 2”. Center for Solutions to Online Violence. 2016. http://femtechnet.org/csov/journalist/ (Links to an external site.)
Tufekci, Zeynep & Christopher Wilson. “Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square.” Journal of Communication. 62 (2012) 363–379.
Social Media Labour
Abidin, Crystal. “Communicative ❤ Intimacies: Influencers and Perceived Interconnectedness.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 8 (November 1, 2015). http://adanewmedia.org/2015/11/issue8-abidin/ (Links to an external site.).
Maragh, Raven S. “‘Our Struggles Are Unequal’: Black Women’s Affective Labor Between Television and Twitter.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 40, no. 4 (October 1, 2016): 351–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859916664082 (Links to an external site.).
Nakamura, Lisa. “The Unwanted Labour of Social Media: Women of Colour Call out Culture As Venture Community Management.” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/theory/politics 86, no. 1 (December 16, 2015): 106–12.
Abidin, Chrystal. “From ‘Networked Publics’ to ‘Refracted Publics’: A Companion Framework for Researching ‘Below the Radar’ Studies.” Social Media & Society. Jan 2021. 1-13.
Disability and labour rights movements
Abbas, Jihan. “A Legacy of Exploitation: Intellectual Disability, Unpaid Labor, & Disability Services.”New Politics, no. 53 (2012). http://newpol.org/content/legacy-exploitation-intellectual-disability-unpaid-labor-disability-services (Links to an external site.).
Peers, Danielle. “Patients, Athletes, Freaks: Paralympism and the Reproduction of Disability.” Journal of Sport & Social Issues 36, no. 3 (2012): 295–316. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723512442201 (Links to an external site.).
Transgender labour rights movements
cárdenas, micha. “Shifting Futures: Digital Trans of Color Praxis.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 6 (January 4, 2015). http://adanewmedia.org/2015/01/issue6-cardenas/ (Links to an external site.).
Irving, Dan. “Normalized Transgressions: Legitimizing the Transsexual Body as Productive.” Radical History Review 2008, no. 100 (December 21, 2008): 38–59.
Gender-based Violence, Online violence and the work of security
Mendes, Kaitlynn, Jessica Ringrose & Jessalynn Keller. “#MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism.” European Journal of Women’s Studies. 2018. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1350506818765318?casa_token=ArSLFOaBUREAAAAA:G4sZYOF0dA6JoEum5-7k0aRfFuTh7J9MbMSfUoLPWpUa8sqa7tNEri5uXh06winlaWxQ0w3_VzBevw (Links to an external site.)
Read through the Centre for Solutions to Online Violence (CS0V) and choose 1-3 references to report on for the class. http://femtechnet.org/csov/ (Links to an external site.)
You can also do research on the following anti-violence campaigns:
“I Never Ask For It” Campaign http://ineveraskforit.org/ (Links to an external site.) & the “Blank Noise” activist group – based in Bangalore, India http://blog.blanknoise.org/ (Links to an external site.)
See Crash Override http://www.crashoverridenetwork.com/ (Links to an external site.)
Feminist theories of new media, technology & labour
Gregg, Melissa. “Learning to (Love) Labour: Production Cultures and the Affective Turn.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.2 (June 2009): 209-214.
Swartz, Andi. “Critical Blogging: Constructing Femmescapes Online.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 9 (May 1, 2016). http://adanewmedia.org/2016/05/issue9-schwartz/ (Links to an external site.).
Cooper, Brittney, and Margaret Rhee. “Hacking the Black/White Binary.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 6 (January 4, 2015). http://adanewmedia.org/2015/01/issue6-cooperrhee/ (Links to an external site.).
Beauty Industries & Media Labour
Hobson, Janelle. “Black Beauty and Digital Spaces: The New Visibility Politics.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 10 (October 31, 2016). http://adanewmedia.org/2016/10/issue10-hobson/ (Links to an external site.).
The Work of Reality TV
Collins, Cory G. “Drag Race to the Bottom? Updated Notes on the Aesthetic and Political Economy of RuPaul’s Drag Race.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 4, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): 128–34.
Jian, Miaoju, and Chang-de Liu. “‘Democratic Entertainment’ Commodity and Unpaid Labor of Reality TV: A Preliminary Analysis of China’s Supergirl.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 10, no. 4 (December 1, 2009): 524–43.
Netporn & labour
Miller-Young, Mireille. “Putting Hypersexuality to Work: Black Women and Illicit Eroticism in Pornography.” 2(2010): 219-235.
Bui, Long T. “Sex Hacker: Configuring Chinese Women in the Age of Digital Penetration.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 6 (January 4, 2015). http://adanewmedia.org/2015/01/issue6-bui/ (Links to an external site.)
Immigration, Migration and Media Labour
Bauder, Harald. 2003. “‘Brain Abuse’, or the Devaluation of Immigrant Labour in Canada.” Antipode 35 (4): 699–717.
Bauder, Harold. 2008. “Immigration Debate in Canada: How Newspapers Reported, 1996–2004.” Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de L’integration et de La Migration Internationale 9 (3): 289–310.
Bhuyan, Rupaleem, Daphne Jeyapal, Jane Ku, Izumi Sakamoto, and Elena Chou. 2017. “Branding ‘Canadian Experience’ in Immigration Policy: Nation Building in a Neoliberal Era.” Journal of International Migration and Integration 18 (1):47–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-015-0467-4 (Links to an external site.).
