This book is a first of its kind critical inter-disciplinary introduction to the economic, political, cultural, and technological dimensions of work in the rapidly growing digital media and entertainment industries (DMEI).

Tanner Mirrlees is the current Director of the Communication and Digital Media Studies program in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, where he has been teaching the Work in the Creative and Tech Industries course for over a decade. He is the author of numerous publications including Global Entertainment Media (2013), Hearts and Mines: The US Empire's Cultural Industry (2016), and EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age (2019).