Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory

ISBN-13: 9780415896955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 264 str.

trebor Scholz

Opis

'Digital Labor' asks 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.

Recenzje

"Almost 20 years since we were promised a new era of creativity, connectivity, and commerce by the rise of the World Wide Web, we are finally able to ask hard questions about how digital ecosystems have affected human capabilities. This book is essential to any effort to make sense of the digital economy and its effects on real people around the world." -Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything-and Why We Should Worry

"Internet business models increasingly rely on the uncompensated and crowd-sourced contributions of individuals. This important book brings together leading thinkers to shine a much needed and critical light on what this practice means for the future of markets, freedom, and individual autonomy." -Laura DeNardis, author of Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance