Nina Willment
Biographic Data
| ID | 3064293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Willment |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Willment |
| SIGNATURE | WILLMENT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0101-4773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
It’s like sunk cost fallacy or something they call it: The role of symbolic, social and economic capital in worker motivations for staying in the UK television production sector
This paper seeks to explain why workers stay within the UK TV production sector, despite its well-documented problems. By drawing together literature around Bourdieu’s forms of capital with the concept of sunk costs, the paper argues that sunk cost fallacy (i.e. the time, effort and investments already incurred by the individual worker) is a central motivation for professionals retaining their place within the industry. It is particularly the not…
Travel Bloggers as ‘Digital Nomads’–How Can Understanding This Lifestyle Migration Help us to Think About the Future of Work, Migration and Technology
This paper draws on qualitative, empirical research conducted with nineteen British travel bloggers as distinctive examples of digital nomads, involved in unique forms of lifestyle migration. The paper analyses travel bloggers’ working lives, paying attention to how travel bloggers own migration geographies inextricably entwine with their digital labour. The paper makes three key contributions to the literature on digital nomadism and lifestyle m…
XR stories as innovation and cultural intermediary for the creative industries
Navigating the travel blogger dispositif’: The importance of aesthetic labour within the digital work of British travel bloggers
Drawing on empirical research conducted with 19 British travel bloggers, the article reveals how aesthetic labour is a crucial practice in travel bloggers’ digital work, helping them in navigating platform capitalism, audience expectations and digital visibility. The article explores how through a range of aesthetic labour practices, travel bloggers ultimately seek to embody or resist a distinctive travel blogger ‘dispositif’ (or identity). It is…
The importance of professional skills within the changing media landscape of the UK screen industries: A case study of the ‘disruptive’ phenomenon of virtual production
Rapid technological developments are changing media practices within the screen industries, with these shifts exacerbating already existent skills shortages and gaps.This paper focuses on the case study example of virtual production, a new media practice of making film and television content, to demonstrate the continuing importance of professional (or 'transferable') skills.Professional skills are skills required to act efficiently in different …
The emergence of virtual production – a research agenda
Virtual production is increasingly seen as a way to make film and television more efficiently by harnessing the power of game engines to create unique locations and sets, offer directors more flexibility, and to cut carbon emissions. But while the technologies at the centre of virtual production are not new, their combination into filmmaking pipelines is in its infancy and the field is evolving fast. Indeed, so rapid is its evolution that pinning…
‘It used to be fix-it in post production! now it’s fix-it in pre-production’: How virtual production is changing production networks in film and television
This article examines how the development of virtual production is disrupting the film and television industry. Virtual production is a way of creating content which captures digital assets and environments ‘in camera’ and in real-time during shooting, rather than these assets being added in post-production. We review the use of the production network concept - a systematic way of examining a set of linked economic activities - to analyse film an…
Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online
This article demonstrates how applying the concept of audiencing allows us to better understand how the presence of different audiences online mediates the affective labour practices of content creators. The article focuses on one distinctive example of online content creators: British travel bloggers. First, the article argues that audiencing provides an important lens to witness the diversity of affective labour practices being undertaken by tr…
Geographies of aesthetic labour and the creative work of grime DJs
This paper undertakes a close examination of the work of grime DJs to demonstrate the value of Cultural Geography scholarship in developing new ways of thinking about work in general, and specifically in approaching the concept of aesthetic labour. In particular, the paper examines three ways in which we can theorise this kind of work and performance. First, the paper notes how value is constituted within fields of cultural judgement and taste, t…
Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online
This article demonstrates how applying the concept of audiencing allows us to better understand how the presence of different audiences online mediates the affective labour practices of content creators. The article focuses on one distinctive example of online content creators: British travel bloggers. First, the article argues that audiencing provides an important lens to witness the diversity of affective labour practices being undertaken by tr…
Geographies of aesthetic labour and the creative work of grime DJs
This paper undertakes a close examination of the work of grime DJs to demonstrate the value of Cultural Geography scholarship in developing new ways of thinking about work in general, and specifically in approaching the concept of aesthetic labour. In particular, the paper examines three ways in which we can theorise this kind of work and performance. First, the paper notes how value is constituted within fields of cultural judgement and taste, t…
Audiencing’ the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online
This article demonstrates how applying the concept of audiencing allows us to better understand how the presence of different audiences online mediates the affective labour practices of content creators. The article focuses on one distinctive example of online content creators: British travel bloggers. First, the article argues that audiencing provides an important lens to witness the diversity of affective labour practices being undertaken by tr…
The importance of professional skills within the changing media landscape of the UK screen industries: A case study of the ‘disruptive’ phenomenon of virtual production
Rapid technological developments are changing media practices within the screen industries, with these shifts exacerbating already existent skills shortages and gaps.This paper focuses on the case study example of virtual production, a new media practice of making film and television content, to demonstrate the continuing importance of professional (or 'transferable') skills.Professional skills are skills required to act efficiently in different …
The emergence of virtual production – a research agenda
Virtual production is increasingly seen as a way to make film and television more efficiently by harnessing the power of game engines to create unique locations and sets, offer directors more flexibility, and to cut carbon emissions. But while the technologies at the centre of virtual production are not new, their combination into filmmaking pipelines is in its infancy and the field is evolving fast. Indeed, so rapid is its evolution that pinning…
‘It used to be fix-it in post production! now it’s fix-it in pre-production’: How virtual production is changing production networks in film and television
This article examines how the development of virtual production is disrupting the film and television industry. Virtual production is a way of creating content which captures digital assets and environments ‘in camera’ and in real-time during shooting, rather than these assets being added in post-production. We review the use of the production network concept - a systematic way of examining a set of linked economic activities - to analyse film an…
XR stories as innovation and cultural intermediary for the creative industries
Navigating the travel blogger dispositif’: The importance of aesthetic labour within the digital work of British travel bloggers
Drawing on empirical research conducted with 19 British travel bloggers, the article reveals how aesthetic labour is a crucial practice in travel bloggers’ digital work, helping them in navigating platform capitalism, audience expectations and digital visibility. The article explores how through a range of aesthetic labour practices, travel bloggers ultimately seek to embody or resist a distinctive travel blogger ‘dispositif’ (or identity). It is…
It’s like sunk cost fallacy or something they call it: The role of symbolic, social and economic capital in worker motivations for staying in the UK television production sector
This paper seeks to explain why workers stay within the UK TV production sector, despite its well-documented problems. By drawing together literature around Bourdieu’s forms of capital with the concept of sunk costs, the paper argues that sunk cost fallacy (i.e. the time, effort and investments already incurred by the individual worker) is a central motivation for professionals retaining their place within the industry. It is particularly the not…
Travel Bloggers as ‘Digital Nomads’–How Can Understanding This Lifestyle Migration Help us to Think About the Future of Work, Migration and Technology
This paper draws on qualitative, empirical research conducted with nineteen British travel bloggers as distinctive examples of digital nomads, involved in unique forms of lifestyle migration. The paper analyses travel bloggers’ working lives, paying attention to how travel bloggers own migration geographies inextricably entwine with their digital labour. The paper makes three key contributions to the literature on digital nomadism and lifestyle m…
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works)