| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 258 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Why does digital labor matter now? / Trebor Scholz -- Part I. The Shifting Sites of Labor Markets: 1. In Search of the Lost Paycheck / Andrew Ross; 2. Free Labor / Tiziana Terranova; 3. The Political Economy of Cosmopolis / Sean Cubitt; 4. Considerations on a Hacker Manifesto / McKenzie Wark -- Part II. Interrogating Modes of Digital Labor: 5. Return of the Crowds: Mechanical Turk and Neoliberal States of Exception / Ayhan Aytes; 6. Fandom as Free Labor / Abigail De Kosnik; 7. The Digital, Labor, and Measure Beyond Biopolitics / Patricia Ticineto Clough; 8. Whatever Blogging / Jodi Dean -- Part III. The Violence of Participation: 9. Estranged Free Labor / Mark Andrejevic; 10. Digitality and the Media of Dispossession / Jonathan Beller; 11. Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft / Lisa Nakamura -- Part IV. Organized Networks in an Age of Vulnerable Publics: 12. Thesis on Digital Labor in an Emerging P2P Economy / Michel Bauwens ; 13. Class and Exploitation on the Internet / Christian Fuchs; 14. Acts of Translation: Organized Networks as Algorithmic Technologies of the Common / Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle |
| Summary |
Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates-leaving their ""deep"" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and predict users' interests and habits. This unique collection of essays provides a wide-ranging account of the dark side of the Internet. It claims that the divide between leisure time and work has vanished |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Atarazanas Valencia gnd |
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Information society.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Information society
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Internet -- Social aspects
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Arbeitswelt
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Informationsgesellschaft
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Beteiligung
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scholz, Trebor, editor.
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| LC no. |
2012012133 |
| ISBN |
9780203145791 |
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0203145798 |
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9781136506703 |
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1136506705 |
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