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MIT Press
24 May 2022

Society & culture: general

Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

A concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.

A concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.

From the time we roll out of bed to check overnight updates to our last posts, likes, and views of the previous day, we're consuming and producing content. But what does the term ""content"" even mean? When did it become ubiquitous? And at what cost? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kate Eichhorn offers a concise introduction to content and the content industry, examining the far-reaching effects content has on culture, politics, and labor in a digital age.

Eichhorn traces the evolution of our current understanding of content from the early internet to the current social mediaverse. The quintessential example of content, she says, is the Instagram egg-an image that imparted no information or knowledge and circulated simply for the sake of circulation. Eichhorn explores what differentiates user-generated content from content produced by compensated (although often undercompensated) workers; examines how fields from art and literature to journalism and politics have weathered the rise of the content industry; and investigates the increasing importance of artists' ""content capital""-the ability of artists, writers, and performers to produce content not about their work but about their status as artists.

By: Kate Eichhorn
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262543286
ISBN 10: 0262543281
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 24 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kate Eichhorn is Associate Professor and Chair of Culture and Media Studies at The New School. She is the author of The End of Forgetting- Growing Up with Social Media, Adjusted Margin- Xerography, Art and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century (MIT Press), and The Archival Turn in Feminism.

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Eichhorn keeps things tight and accessible as she spotlights the dark and damaging aspects of content: even given all the negative effects and the rise of 'content resisters' who favor old mediums, she writes, the industry will only continue to thrive. This is a fine introduction for readers curious about how much of what's online came to be there. -Publishers Weekly

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