Digital labor : the Internet as playground and factory

edited by Trebor Scholz

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 vani

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Year of publication:	2013
Other Persons:	Scholz, Trebor (contributor)
Publisher:	New York : Routledge
Subject:	Internet \| Electronic Commerce \| E-commerce \| Digitalisierung \| Digitization \| Arbeitswelt \| World of work \| Welt \| World
Description of contents:	pt. I. The shifting sites of labor markets -- pt. II. Interrogating modes of digital labor -- pt. III. The violence of participation -- pt. IV. Organized networks in an age of vulnerable publics Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	vi, 258 p
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Does Digital Labor Matter Now?; PART I The Shifting Sites of Labor Markets; 1 In Search of the Lost Paycheck; 2 Free Labor; 3 The Political Economy of Cosmopolis; 4 Considerations on a Hacker Manifesto; PART II Interrogating Modes of Digital Labor; 5 Return of the Crowds: Mechanical Turk and Neoliberal States of Exception; 6 Fandom as Free Labor; 7 The Digital, Labor, and Measure Beyond Biopolitics; 8 Whatever Blogging; PART III The Violence of Participation; 9 Estranged Free Labor 10 Digitality and the Media of Dispossession11 Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft; PART IV Organized Networks in an Age of Vulnerable Publics; 12 Thesis on Digital Labor in an Emerging P2P Economy; 13 Class and Exploitation on the Internet; 14 Acts of Translation: Organized Networks as Algorithmic Technologies of the Common; Further Reading; Contributors; Index; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	978-0-203-14579-1 ; 978-0-415-89694-8 ; 978-0-415-89695-5 ; 978-0-415-89694-8
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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