By @tamigraph: "Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice" examines the labor involved with the upkeep of social media accounts for Oakland-based brick-and-mortar boutiques and their digital storefronts, especially during COVID shelter-in-place. ht
Next, I discuss how indie shop owners in Oakland creatively responded to closed storefronts, turning to Shopify, Instagram, and Etsy to make ends meet and showcasing what I call "logistics fetishism" and social justice values in their social media posts ht
There is also @tamigraph's fantastic "Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice" https://t.co/d65oGm25Kp, Home Spun https://t.co/lrmBHwd0Ue and (with Michael Palm), Brick-and-Platform: Listing Labor in the Digital Vintage Economy https://t.co/b5
RT @tamigraph: Part of my research on how Oakland indie shop owners adapted to shelter-in-place orders through their creative, uneven use o…