Global iPhone Local Labour: Exploring ICT Production, Labour and Cultural Production

Title

Global iPhone Local Labour: Exploring ICT Production, Labour and Cultural Production

Creator

Koushik K.

Description

A theory of value pertinent to the contemporary iPhone era focuses on formal and informal labour circuits. This study extends this framework by examining a labour dispute in an iPhone factory near Bangalore, delving into its dissemination through media and the broader critical political economy surrounding the recent iPhone production in India. Furthermore, it incorporates a geographical perspective into the circuit framework to illustrate the movement of capital and labour in Bangalore, rekindling discussions on coreperiphery dynamics in the context of capital and labour migration. Further, this research builds upon the typography of worker-generated content by illustrating a specific category of such content within the iPhone labour dispute. Utilising a critical political economy of media approach, this article aims to assess the broader implications of the updated framework and to open new avenues for research within the emerging field of information communication technologies, cultural production and labour. 2024 South Asian University.

Source

Society and Culture in South Asia, Vol-10, No. 2, pp. 232-254.

Date

2024-01-01

Publisher

Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd

Subject

Cultural studies; culture and media; ICT; mobile media

Coverage

Koushik K., Department of Media Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Karnataka, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 23938617

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1177/23938617241256241

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