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Effort in absence: Technologically mediated aesthetic experiences of the culture industries’ routine workers

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Ethnography

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Abstract

Ethnography, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 43-65, March 2026.
In this article, I draw upon 20 months of participant observation to compare the labor processes of routine, office staff in the popular music and digital content industries in the U.S. In both cases, workers play a game of disappearing, pursuing ...