Spectacle and Specter: Handling Boxes In Between Digital Content Creation, E-Commerce Advertising, and Last-Mile Delivery

Li, Zizi

Zizi Li

Zizi Li is a doctoral candidate in Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA. Her primary research focus revolves around critical digital studies, examining the (im)materiality and (in)visibility of labor in gendered and racialized digital cultural texts. Their dissertation studies labor that is infrastructural and overlooked in fashion/beauty lifestyle influencer production. Her works have been published in Television and New Media, Wide Screen, and Flow Journal.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 9June 17, 2024<June 17, 2024

Spectacle and Specter: Handling Boxes In Between Digital Content Creation, E-Commerce Advertising, and Last-Mile Delivery

Zizi Li

Zizi Li examines imagery of stacked boxes in YouTube unboxing videos, reading their spectacular and excessive form as a spectral trace of labouring bodies in the logistics supply chain.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 9June 17, 2024<June 17, 2024

Media In-Between: Introduction

Zizi Li and Slaveya Minkova

In their introduction to the dossier, Zizi Li and Slaveya Minkova reflect on the concept of the "In-Between" as a framework for thinking about media, space, and place.