Hi AoIR, I would like to invite you to the next DigiLabour book talk, featuring Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers, by Miranda Banks (Loyola Marymount University) and Kate Fortmueller (Georgia State University), published by University of California Press. It will take place on July 15, 2pm EDT, on DigiLabour YouTube Channel. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbVSIaODAsk After the talk, there will be two discussants: Joe Epstein, who has worked in digital strategy and marketing at all the major Hollywood studios, various tech companies, and game companies; and Daphne Idiz, co-director of Creative Labour & Critical Futures and incoming assistant professor at York University. Description When Hollywood writers and actors went on strike in 2023, they drew attention to the rapidly changing nature of film and television production. In Boom to Bust, media industry experts Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller combine economic and cultural analysis and interviews with industry workers to capture the lived experience of Hollywood in crisis. Tracking major disruptions of the preceding decade—including the transformation of streaming services into studios, the overproduction of series during Peak TV, as well as #MeToo and COVID—the authors explain how the conflicting interests of studio executives, creative workers, and workers' unions compelled a renegotiation of the terms of work. Grounding readers in the history of Hollywood labor negotiations, the authors provide a road map to make sense of Hollywood’s present—and what comes next. See you there! best, Rafael -- dr. Rafael Grohmann Assistant Professor of Media Studies Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/> University of Toronto Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/> Research Associate, University of Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/> Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS> Principal Investigator, <https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/> Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/report-launch-worker-owned-platforms-and-intersectionality-in-brazil-and-argentina/> Principal Investigator, Digital Sovereignty Archives<https://creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/digital-sovereignty-project-with-brazils-homeless-workers-movement-receives-sshrc-funding/> Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/> Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-world-of-work> Senior Fellow, Massey College<https://www.masseycollege.ca/> Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/> <https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>