Moira Weigel (Author of Labor of Love)

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Moira Weigel is a historian and theorist of media technologies and a founding editor of Logic magazine. Originally trained in modern languages, including German and Mandarin Chinese, she now studies digital media in a global context, focusing on vulnerabilities and opportunities that arise from the translingual and transnational movements of texts, images, information, and human actors. She also has a strong secondary interest in feminism, gender, and sexuality.

Moira鈥檚 first book, Labor of Love: the Invention of Dating (2016), countered widespread claims that the rise of mobile phones and social media were bringing about the 鈥渄eath of romance,鈥� showing that modern courtship practices have consistently coevolved with consumer capitalism and Moira Weigel is a historian and theorist of media technologies and a founding editor of Logic magazine. Originally trained in modern languages, including German and Mandarin Chinese, she now studies digital media in a global context, focusing on vulnerabilities and opportunities that arise from the translingual and transnational movements of texts, images, information, and human actors. She also has a strong secondary interest in feminism, gender, and sexuality.

Moira鈥檚 first book, Labor of Love: the Invention of Dating (2016), countered widespread claims that the rise of mobile phones and social media were bringing about the 鈥渄eath of romance,鈥� showing that modern courtship practices have consistently coevolved with consumer capitalism and other forms of gendered work. Labor of Love has been translated into five languages and appeared in dozens of outlets including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNN, and HBO. In the process of talking about it in public, Moira developed a keen interest in online misogyny, racism, and disinformation, that led her to her current book project. Tentatively entitled Politically Correct: The History of an Accusation, it tracks the rise of 鈥淧C鈥� as an early meme and the role that debates about it played in the formation of a surprising range of digitally mediated counterpublics worldwide.

Alongside her academic research, Moira is a cofounder of Logic magazine and Logic Books and co-editor of Voices from the Valley (2020), a collection of interviews with anonymous workers from across the Bay Area tech industry. She received her PhD from the joint program in Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies at Yale University and spent 2017-2020 at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is currently a Sociotechnical Security Fellow at the Data and Society Institute. In 2021, she will join Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies. ...more

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	Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating 3.70 avg rating — 1,250 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It by Ben Tarnoff (欧宝娱乐 Author), Moira Weigel 3.76 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	n+1 Issue 14: Awkward Age by n+1, Adriana Camarena, Yelena Akhtiorskaya 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Logic Magazine, Issue 9: Nature by Ben Tarnoff (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Moira Weigel (Editor), Alex Blasdel (Editor) 4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Logic Magazine, Issue 10: Security by Ben Tarnoff (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Moira Weigel (Editor), Jen Kagan (Editor) 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	n+1 Issue 25: Slow Burn by n+1, George Blaustein, Rebecca Schiff (欧宝娱乐 Author) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Logic Magazine, Issue 13: Distribution by Ben Tarnoff (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Alex Blasdel (Editor), Moira Weigel (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Logic Magazine, Issue 11: Care by Ben Tarnoff (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Moira Weigel (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	#Young-Girl by Moira Weigel, Mal Ahern, Jaleh Mansoor it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'amore 猫 lavoro: Economia e relazioni dalla rivoluzione industriale alle app di dating really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is no better life than a life spent laboring at love鈥攅xerting effort not because we have to, but because we believe that what we are bringing into being is valuable and we want it to exist. Yet because our culture tends to misunderstand the nature of labor and of love, we undervalue both.”
― Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

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“Walking through the West Village one night, he had a eureka moment: He would make a gay bar, but for straight people. It was a brilliant idea. Soon after, he opened the first T.G.I. Friday's on the Upper East Side.”
― Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

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“I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it鈥檚 a shitshow.”
― Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

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