ART, PROFESSION AND TECHNOLOGY: THE STRIKES IN HOLLYWOOD IN 2023
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This research discusses the strikes taking place in Hollywood in 2023, focusing on working conditions and high technology (streaming platforms and artificial intelligence) in film studios in California. A relevant topic for understanding the relationship between art, profession and technology. The methodology is based on the analysis of documents and websites of the strike groups and on media coverage of this phenomenon. The interpretation is made by authors from different areas of knowledge who evaluated the tense connection between cultural production and technology. We have provisionally concluded: job insecurity, exemplified by low wages, vexatious working conditions, uncertain financial remuneration from streaming services, short deadlines for the development of tasks and a deficient work structure. The deepening of artificial intelligence and a certain professional insecurity represented by the development of machinic texts and digital replicas threatening both categories. It also adds the importance of collective struggle as a possibility of reversing the excessive use of this technology, drawing society's attention to the way in which new technologies have redefined the world of labor.
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