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In recent years, a number of books in the field of literacy research have addressed the experiences of literacy users or the multiple processes of learning literacy skills in a rapidly changing technological environment. In contrast to these studies, this book addresses the subjects of literacy. In other words, it is about how literacy workers are subjected to the relations between new forms of labor and the concept of human capital as a dominant economic structure in the United States. It is about how literacies become forms of value producing labor in everyday life both within and beyond the workplace itself.As Evan Watkins shows, apprehending the meaning of literacy work requires an understanding of how literacies have changed in relation to not only technology but also to labor, capital, and economics. The emergence of new literacies has produced considerable debate over basic definitions as well as the complexities of gain and loss. At the same time, the visibility of these debates between advocates of old versus new literacies has obscured the development of more fundamental changes. Most significantly, Watkins argues, it is no longer possible to represent human capital solely as the kind of long-term resource that Gary Becker and other neoclassical economists have defined. Like corporate inventory and business management practices, human capital—labor—now also appears in a “just-in-time” form, as if a power of action on the occasion rather than a capital asset in reserve.Just-in-time human capital valorizes the expansion of choice, but it depends absolutely on the invisible literacy work consigned to the peripheries of concentrated human capital. In an economy wherein peoples’ attention begins to eclipse information as a primary commodity, a small number of choices appear with an immensely magnified intensity while most others disappear entirely. As Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital deftly illustrates, the concentration of human labor in the digital age reinforces and extends a class division of winners on the inside of technological innovation and losers everywhere else.

Capitalism. --- Internet --- Work --- Human capital. --- Social aspects. --- Literacy work. --- adjectival literacy. --- attention economy. --- class division. --- commons based production. --- educational reform. --- income inequality. --- just-in-time human capital.

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How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet. Using such social media platforms as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, they’re capitalizing on the public’s fascination with the ghetto and gang violence. But with what consequences? Ballad of the Bullet follows the Corner Boys, a group of thirty or so young men on Chicago’s South Side who have hitched their dreams of success to the creation of “drill music” (slang for “shooting music”). Drillers disseminate this competitive genre of hyperviolent, hyperlocal, DIY-style gangsta rap digitally, hoping to amass millions of clicks, views, and followers—and a ticket out of poverty. But in this perverse system of benefits, where online popularity can convert into offline rewards, the risks can be too great.Drawing on extensive fieldwork and countless interviews compiled from daily, close interactions with the Corner Boys, as well as time spent with their families, friends, music producers, and followers, Forrest Stuart looks at the lives and motivations of these young men. Stuart examines why drillers choose to embrace rather than distance themselves from negative stereotypes, using the web to assert their supposed superior criminality over rival gangs. While these virtual displays of ghetto authenticity—the saturation of social media with images of guns, drugs, and urban warfare—can lead to online notoriety and actual resources, including cash, housing, guns, sex, and, for a select few, upward mobility, drillers frequently end up behind bars, seriously injured, or dead.Raising questions about online celebrity, public voyeurism, and the commodification of the ghetto, Ballad of the Bullet offers a singular look at what happens when the digital economy and urban poverty collide.

Gangs --- Violence --- Social media --- Technology and youth --- Urban poor --- Social aspects. --- Jeffrey Lane. --- Pierre Bourdieu. --- SSYVPP. --- South Side Youth Violence Prevention Project. --- Taylor Park. --- The Digital Street. --- The Wire. --- attention economy. --- black super-predator. --- digital slumming. --- drill rap. --- drug economy. --- gang conflicts. --- gang rivalries. --- gang warfare. --- ghetto violence. --- micro-celebrity. --- music videos. --- representation of urban gang violence. --- self-made entrepreneur. --- social media celebrity. --- social media fame. --- social media policing. --- street life. --- street violence. --- urban communities. --- urban ethnography. --- urban sociology. --- urban studies. --- urban violence. --- violent crime. --- youth culture.

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"How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society"--

Ability. --- Conduct of life. --- Ableism. --- Absurdity. --- Adolf Hitler. --- African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68). --- Agriculture (Chinese mythology). --- Arbitrariness. --- Archaeology. --- Attention economy. --- Biomass (ecology). --- Buddhism. --- Canberra. --- Capitalism. --- Central Asia. --- Chengdu. --- Company. --- Competition. --- Computational model. --- Cory Doctorow. --- Customer. --- Cycling. --- Deansgate. --- Debt. --- Disability studies. --- Docking station. --- Economic recovery. --- Economics. --- Elitism. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Equal opportunity. --- Feeling. --- Fiat money. --- Financial institution. --- Funding. --- Global warming. --- Good and evil. --- Great Famine (Ireland). --- Greatness. --- Hinge. --- Human migration. --- Human nature. --- Humility. --- Hunter-gatherer. --- Illustration. --- Imperialism. --- Income bracket. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Laptop. --- Laughter. --- Liberal socialism. --- Local community. --- Loneliness. --- Market (economics). --- Mechanization. --- Mentorship. --- Meritocracy. --- Michael Walzer. --- Mining. --- Moisture. --- Morality. --- Mutual aid (organization theory). --- Netflix. --- New Society. --- New Urbanism. --- Nikil Saval. --- Pali Canon. --- Patriarchy. --- Perfectionism (psychology). --- Play (activity). --- Positional good. --- Publicity. --- Quality of life. --- Racism. --- Rational choice theory. --- Rationality. --- Rosa Luxemburg. --- Samaritans (charity). --- Self-esteem. --- Shenzhen. --- Suburbanization. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supporter. --- Taoism. --- Tax. --- Technological revolution. --- Technology. --- Teleology. --- The New York Times. --- Thought. --- Tinder (app). --- Traffic collision. --- Transport network. --- Tree. --- Unemployment. --- Urbanization. --- Waste management. --- Wealth. --- World War II. --- Yacht. --- Yale University Press. --- Zhuangzi (book).