Online self-monitoring is emotional labor that cannot fully succeed due to constant platform churn

Evidence

As Glenda Bautista said, monitoring can be “exhausting,” a form of emotional labor. It may also be impossible, because new tools and sites are constantly being developed. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 637

Categorization

• XREF: Frames privacy maintenance as emotional labor — bridges to Hochschild’s emotional labor theory and later ‘digital labor’ scholarship. — connects to: Platforms differ in how easily status can be faked versus genuinely performed — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 263; Brand monitoring is exhausting unpaid emotional labor enforcing a dual gaze of self-surveillance — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 491; Heavy Twitter monitoring made relationships feel like strategic performance while fueling anxiety. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 601 (+2 more)
• SEED: The ‘exhaustion of impossible self-policing’ angle could be an essay about how platforms profit from unattainable privacy management.