{"product_id":"content-9780262543286","title":"Content","description":"\u003cb\u003eA concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEichhorn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Eichhorn is Associate Professor and Chair of Culture and Media Studies at The New School. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAdjusted Margin: Xerography, Art and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press), and \u003ci\u003eThe Archival Turn in Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525805510930,"sku":"9780262543286","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e2bc46c5-2a56-4a89-8d33-52448c4dce67.jpg?v=1731239950","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/content-9780262543286","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}