Digital Labor The Internet As Playground and Factory

Name: Digital Labor The Internet As Playground and Factory
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ISBN: 9780415896955

ISBN-10: 0415896959

ISBN-13: 9780415896955

Edition: 2013

Authors: Trebor Scholz

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Digital Laborasks whether life on the internet is mostly work, or play. We tweet, we tag photos, we link, we review books, we comment on blogs, we remix media, and we upload video to create much of the content that makes up the web. And large corporations profit on our online activity by tracking our interests, affiliations, and habits—and then collecting and selling the data. What is the nature of this interactive ‘labor’ and the new forms of digital sociality that it brings into being? The international, interdisciplinary contributors to Digital Laborsuggest that there is no longer a clear divide between ‘the personal’ and ‘work,’ as every aspect of life drives the digital economy: sexual…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.012



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Why Does Digital Labor Matter Now?




The Shifting Sites of Labor Markets



In Search of the Lost Paycheck




Free Labor




The Political Economy of Cosmopolis




Considerations on a Hacker Manifesto




Interrogating Modes of Digital Labor



Return of the Crowds: Mechanical Turk and Neoliberal States of Exception




Fandom as Free Labor




The Digital, Labor, and Measure Beyond Biopolitics




Whatever Blogging




The Violence of Participation



Estranged Free Labor




Digitality and the Media of Dispossession




Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft




Organized Networks in an Age of Vulnerable Publics



Thesis on Digital Labor in an Emerging P2P Economy




Class and Exploitation on the Internet




Acts of Translation: Organized Networks as Algorithmic Technologies of the Common



Further Reading


Contributors


Index