Enda Brophy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6276671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Enda Brophy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Enda |
| FAMILY NAME | Brophy |
| SIGNATURE | BROPHY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In Memoriam
Vincent Mosco was a foundational figure in critical communication studies, a builder of progressive scholarly institutions in the field, an ally to social justice movements within and beyond the academy, and a generous mentor to dozens of communication scholars over several decades.He achieved all of this while never forgetting where he came from-a tenement on Mulberry Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side.When Mosco entered graduate school in th…
En mémoire de Vincent Mosco
Vincent Mosco tait une figure fondatrice des tudes critiques en communication, un btisseur d'institutions savantes progressives dans ce domaine, un alli des mouvements de justice sociale au sein de l'acadmie et au-del, et un mentor gnreux pour des douzaines de chercheurs et de chercheuses en communication pendant plusieurs dcennies.Il a assum ces responsabilits tout en se rappelant toujours ses origines dans un logement ouvrier de la rue Mulberry…
The End of Abstraction? The Triumph of Abstraction? A Prospective Dilemma
Chaos and the automaton are the two figures that we can distinguish at the horizon of our historical moment. The pandemic collapse has been the chaotic effect of the force of the virus, a concretion of biological matter, jeopardising the abstract order of capitalism. But it has simultaneously been the trigger of further abstraction: digital communication and financial support to an already impoverished society
Introduction
Digital Debt Labour
This article explores the convergence of debt, deportation, and digital labour in Mexico by describing the making of a labour force working on the frontlines of transnational debt collection, performing what we call digital debt labour. Drawing on dozens of interviews in Tijuana and Mexico City conducted between 2016 and 2019, we relate the growth of a debt collection labour force in Mexico. To theorise the intersection between debt, migration, a…
Language Put to Work
This book examines the rise of call centres through the lens of resistance and collective organizing by workers along the digital assembly lines
Phone Clones
Reviewed by: Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy by Kiran Mirchandani Enda Brophy Kiran Mirchandani. Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. $73.95 hc. $23.95 sc. The rapid growth of transnationally outsourced call centre work in India during the first decade of the 21st century has, in the public imagination as it has for scholars, offered a ri…
Language put to Work
This article considers the growing convergence between labor and communication in the digital economy. Taking the rapid growth of call center employment as its focus, the article argues that the approach taken by the political and theoretical tradition of post-operaismo, or autonomist Marxism, has produced promising encounters between labor activism and communication inquiry. Through its theory of cognitive capitalism and its focus on labor resis…
Resisting Call Centre Work
Countering the more placid depictions of call-centre work on offer from academic literature, this paper illuminates the labour antagonisms currently being produced within this growing form of employment. It brings into sharper focus one of the ways in which call centre workers are organising to protect and their interests, by describing their participation in the emerging model of ‘convergent’ trade unionism of the Communications, Energy, and Pap…
The Transformations of Labour
The discourse accompanying political-economic restructuring toward an “information society” since the 1970s has been thick with utopian conjecture, hyperbole, and exaggeration. This talk of democratic workplaces free of hierarchy, collective investment on the part of workers in the destiny of their companies, and the disengagement of economic value from labouring bodies culminated during the delirium of the New Economy period. Five years later, a…
System Error
This article challenges the notion—proposed by liberal-democratic theories of the “knowledge worker" and industry accounts of “friction-free” capitalism—that labour conflict is no longer relevant within digital capitalism via an in-depth examination of a case of collective organizing by temporary workers at Microsoft. The paper suggests the formation and activities of their union, WashTech, prefigures 21st century collective organizing. Two conce…
Ruling the Root
Internet Governance in Transition
Italian Operaismo Face to Face
The Outlaw 'Net'
No abstract available
Cyber-Marx
No abstract available
Language put to Work
This article considers the growing convergence between labor and communication in the digital economy. Taking the rapid growth of call center employment as its focus, the article argues that the approach taken by the political and theoretical tradition of post-operaismo, or autonomist Marxism, has produced promising encounters between labor activism and communication inquiry. Through its theory of cognitive capitalism and its focus on labor resis…
Italian Operaismo Face to Face
Cyber-Marx
No abstract available
The Outlaw 'Net'
No abstract available
Ruling the Root
Internet Governance in Transition
Italian Operaismo Face to Face
The Transformations of Labour
The discourse accompanying political-economic restructuring toward an “information society” since the 1970s has been thick with utopian conjecture, hyperbole, and exaggeration. This talk of democratic workplaces free of hierarchy, collective investment on the part of workers in the destiny of their companies, and the disengagement of economic value from labouring bodies culminated during the delirium of the New Economy period. Five years later, a…
System Error
This article challenges the notion—proposed by liberal-democratic theories of the “knowledge worker" and industry accounts of “friction-free” capitalism—that labour conflict is no longer relevant within digital capitalism via an in-depth examination of a case of collective organizing by temporary workers at Microsoft. The paper suggests the formation and activities of their union, WashTech, prefigures 21st century collective organizing. Two conce…
Resisting Call Centre Work
Countering the more placid depictions of call-centre work on offer from academic literature, this paper illuminates the labour antagonisms currently being produced within this growing form of employment. It brings into sharper focus one of the ways in which call centre workers are organising to protect and their interests, by describing their participation in the emerging model of ‘convergent’ trade unionism of the Communications, Energy, and Pap…
Language put to Work
This article considers the growing convergence between labor and communication in the digital economy. Taking the rapid growth of call center employment as its focus, the article argues that the approach taken by the political and theoretical tradition of post-operaismo, or autonomist Marxism, has produced promising encounters between labor activism and communication inquiry. Through its theory of cognitive capitalism and its focus on labor resis…
Phone Clones
Reviewed by: Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy by Kiran Mirchandani Enda Brophy Kiran Mirchandani. Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. $73.95 hc. $23.95 sc. The rapid growth of transnationally outsourced call centre work in India during the first decade of the 21st century has, in the public imagination as it has for scholars, offered a ri…
Language Put to Work
This book examines the rise of call centres through the lens of resistance and collective organizing by workers along the digital assembly lines
Digital Debt Labour
This article explores the convergence of debt, deportation, and digital labour in Mexico by describing the making of a labour force working on the frontlines of transnational debt collection, performing what we call digital debt labour. Drawing on dozens of interviews in Tijuana and Mexico City conducted between 2016 and 2019, we relate the growth of a debt collection labour force in Mexico. To theorise the intersection between debt, migration, a…
The End of Abstraction? The Triumph of Abstraction? A Prospective Dilemma
Chaos and the automaton are the two figures that we can distinguish at the horizon of our historical moment. The pandemic collapse has been the chaotic effect of the force of the virus, a concretion of biological matter, jeopardising the abstract order of capitalism. But it has simultaneously been the trigger of further abstraction: digital communication and financial support to an already impoverished society
Introduction
In Memoriam
Vincent Mosco was a foundational figure in critical communication studies, a builder of progressive scholarly institutions in the field, an ally to social justice movements within and beyond the academy, and a generous mentor to dozens of communication scholars over several decades.He achieved all of this while never forgetting where he came from-a tenement on Mulberry Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side.When Mosco entered graduate school in th…
En mémoire de Vincent Mosco
Vincent Mosco tait une figure fondatrice des tudes critiques en communication, un btisseur d'institutions savantes progressives dans ce domaine, un alli des mouvements de justice sociale au sein de l'acadmie et au-del, et un mentor gnreux pour des douzaines de chercheurs et de chercheuses en communication pendant plusieurs dcennies.Il a assum ces responsabilits tout en se rappelant toujours ses origines dans un logement ouvrier de la rue Mulberry…
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