European University Institute Library

Digital labour and prosumer capitalism, the US matrix, edited by Olivier Frayssé, Mathieu O'Neil

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Digital labour and prosumer capitalism

bibliography

915331388

edited by Olivier Frayssé, Mathieu O'Neil

Dynamics of virtual work

the US matrix

"The global dimension of recreational and professional uses of information and communication technologies makes them look universal and almost ahistorical. Aiming to reterritorialize globalized issues, this collection interrogates new forms of digital labour as economic facts and as ideological justifications for the social order, both of which emerged in the United States. 'Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism' features contributions from some of the leading theorists of value and labour in the digital age, as well as incisive case studies of swiping technologies, collaborative consumption, and convergent media. It explores the two core dynamics at the heart of digital work: tasks, or services, are broken down into components or modularized, and users work for no pay and become 'prosumer'. Placing digital labour and prosumption within the wider political economy, this volume presents a deeply contextualized critical account of the forces which shape contemporary subjects, networks, and work practices. The enrolment of consumers into production attempts to undermine labour rights, benefiting US digital corporations. Yet digital labour may ultimately challenge the capitalist logic, as user disregard for property rights extends from bits to atoms."--, Provided by publisher

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