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Qiuyue Fan

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Open access Sep 2026

From alienation to deficitization: the subjectivity predicament of digital laborers

Contemporary research on digital labor confronts a methodological tension: while mainstream occupational health psychology offers rich empirical evidence on the psychological distress of digital workers, it fails to capture the more fundamental predicament of subjectivity underlying this distress—namely, Why, When form...

Zhao-Bin Chu, Qiu-Yue Fan · 0 citations
Open access Jul 2026

The unattainable other: a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective on digital laborers’ traffic anxiety

“Traffic anxiety” has become a collective psychic condition among digital content producers. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis as its theoretical framework, this article conceptualizes “traffic” (viewership metrics) as objet petit a, arguing that it is constructed under the gaze of the algorithmic “big Other” as an ev...

Qiuyue Fan · 0 citations

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