2023 - Franco Angeli
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"We are new farmers selling products from rural area" : the labor process to perform authenticity of live e-commerce sellers in China
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- This article examines the labor process to perform authenticity of live e-commerce sellers, so-called "new farmers", as entrepreneurial subjects, in rural China. The author conducted fieldwork in three live e-commerce teams for one year. Drawing on these data, this article elaborates the exploitative aspect of plat-form labor by describing the tension between mobilization narratives and the labor experience to perform authenticity. These mobilization narratives include interre-lated discourse praising performing authenticity of new farmers, including the ad-vantage of visualization technology, making the marginalized visible, and em-powerment for entrepreneurial individuals. However, these myth obscures the physical labor, gatekeeping process, and necessary capital to construct authentici-ty online. The author concludes by arguing the platform economy demands hybrid labor regime and enhances, instead of improving the social status of marginalized rural subjects. [Publisher's text].
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Sociologia della comunicazione : 65, 1, 2023-
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Código DOI: 10.3280/SC2023-065004
ISSN: 1972-4926
KEYWORDS
- platformization, platform economy, authenticity, labor, ecommerce, live streaming
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