Creating Spaces of Opportunity
**Dissertation in progress:** Summary of my ongoing dissertation project for my doctoral degree in Cinema and Media Studies
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My name is Emmelle Israel. I'm a PhD Candidate at UCLA in the Cinema and Media Studies program.
My research centers the labor, specialized skills, and embodied knowledges that media, entertainment and tech workers enact on an everyday basis to produce works of art, entertainment and culture.
I especially seek to uplift instances of labor activism and worker organizing within these industries.
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Here is a sample of my research projects and publications.
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Obscured Labor: Workers, unions, and guilds in Hollywood
An original course that I designed and taught as part of the Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) at UCLA.
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Exposing the Mess in the Online Kitchen
"Exposing the mess in the online kitchen: Bon Appetit and digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations" is a peer reviewed article that was published in *Convergence.*
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