Digital Labour and Karl Marx

By Christian Fuchs. 2013

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Digital prosumption labour on social media in the context of the capitalist regime of time (2014, background): “…about the digital labour theory of value, Arvidsson argued that Marx’s theory is outdated and cannot be used for understanding social media (Arvidsson and Colleoni, 2012; Fuchs, 2010, 2012a, 2012b; for a discussion of the labour theory of value and social media see also: Fuchs, 2014: Chapter 11).”
Privacy and analytics: it's a DELICATE issue a checklist for trusted learning analytics (2016, background): “One key argument in this context was the exploitation of digital labour, as is the case with facebook – which is widely regarded as the world’s biggest advertising company – monetising user data and contributions for commercial profits [40].”
Labour process theory and the gig economy (2018, background): “…(see for instance Hoedemaekers, 2017), mostly through the notion of ‘immaterial labour’ (Lazzarato, 1997) - and the ‘digital labour’ framework (Fuchs, 2014), which has affirmed as a critique to the exploitation of the unpaid activity of users generating content on social network sites, an…”
The Future of Work in the ‘Sharing Economy’. Market Efficiency and Equitable Opportunities or Unfair Precarisation? (2016, neutral): “…digitally enabled surveillance (Aneesh, 2009); the debate includes some contributions clearly inspired by the application of Marxian perspectives (Fuchs, 2014; Scholz, 2013), with commentaries and academic articles with titles such as, respectively, ‘Marx and Mechanical Turk’ (Bradford Delong,…”
The Passions and the Interests: Unpacking the 'Sharing Economy' (2016, background): “, 2008; Scholz, 2013), and of new digitally enabled surveillance (Aneesh, 2009); the debate includes some contributions clearly inspired by the application of Marxian perspectives (Fuchs, 2014; Scholz, 2013).”
When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction (2019, background): “On the other hand, data is cast as a commodity produced by the digital labour of people posting on Facebook, clicking on Google, exercising with Fitbits, and all the other things we do that create data and that data is created about (Fuchs, 2014; Till, 2012).”