Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism
The Us Matrix
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-349-55860-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the digital age tasks are increasingly modularised and consumers are increasingly becoming prosumers. Replacing digital labour and prosumption within an American context and the wider political economy, this volume presents a critical account of the forces which shape contemporary subjects, networks, and labour practices.
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Edition
2015 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-55860-5 (9781349558605)
DOI
10.1057/9781137473905
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Persons
Eve Bantman-Masum, Jean Jaurès University, France
Thibaut Clément, University Paris Sorbonn, UK
Adam Fish, Lancaster University, UK
Eran Fisher, Open University, Israel
Olivier Frayssé, University Paris Sorbonne, France
Ursula Huws, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Arwid Lund University of Uppsala, Sweden
Vincent Mosco, Queen's University, Canada
Mathieu O'Neil, University of Canberra, Australia
Michael Palm, University of North Carolina, USA
Marie-Christine Pauwels, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, France
Johan Söderberg, IFRIS/Paris-Est, France
Thibaut Clément, University Paris Sorbonn, UK
Adam Fish, Lancaster University, UK
Eran Fisher, Open University, Israel
Olivier Frayssé, University Paris Sorbonne, France
Ursula Huws, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Arwid Lund University of Uppsala, Sweden
Vincent Mosco, Queen's University, Canada
Mathieu O'Neil, University of Canberra, Australia
Michael Palm, University of North Carolina, USA
Marie-Christine Pauwels, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, France
Johan Söderberg, IFRIS/Paris-Est, France
Content
Introduction: Hacked in the USA: Prosumption and Digital Labour; Olivier Frayssé and Mathieu O'Neil
1. Setting the Standards: the USA and Capitalism in the Digital Age; Ursula Huws
2. How the US Counterculture Redefined Work for the Age of the Internet; Olivier Frayssé
3. The Costs of Paying, or Three Histories of Swiping; Michael Palm
4: Work and Prosumerism: Collaborative Consumption in the United States; Marie-Christine Pauwels
5. The Moral Technical Imaginaries of Internet Convergence in an American Television Network; Adam Fish
6. Migration Machine: Marketing Mexico in the Age of ICTs; Eve Bantman-Masum
7. The Dialectics of Prosumption in the Digital Age; Eran Fisher
8. 'Whistle While You Work.' Work, Emotion, and Contests of Authority at the Happiest Place on Earth; Thibaut Clément
9. The Coming of Augmented Property: A Constructivist Lesson for the Critics of Intellectual Property; Johan Söderberg
10. Wikipedians on Wage Labour within Peer Production; Arwid Lund
Afterword: Towards Cloud Labour; Vincent Mosco
1. Setting the Standards: the USA and Capitalism in the Digital Age; Ursula Huws
2. How the US Counterculture Redefined Work for the Age of the Internet; Olivier Frayssé
3. The Costs of Paying, or Three Histories of Swiping; Michael Palm
4: Work and Prosumerism: Collaborative Consumption in the United States; Marie-Christine Pauwels
5. The Moral Technical Imaginaries of Internet Convergence in an American Television Network; Adam Fish
6. Migration Machine: Marketing Mexico in the Age of ICTs; Eve Bantman-Masum
7. The Dialectics of Prosumption in the Digital Age; Eran Fisher
8. 'Whistle While You Work.' Work, Emotion, and Contests of Authority at the Happiest Place on Earth; Thibaut Clément
9. The Coming of Augmented Property: A Constructivist Lesson for the Critics of Intellectual Property; Johan Söderberg
10. Wikipedians on Wage Labour within Peer Production; Arwid Lund
Afterword: Towards Cloud Labour; Vincent Mosco