Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory

By Trebor Scholz. 2012

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The Future of Work in the ‘Sharing Economy’. Market Efficiency and Equitable Opportunities or Unfair Precarisation? (2016, unknown): “, 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), with commentaries and academic articles with titles such as, respectively, ‘Marx and Mechan”
What Is Digital Labour? What Is Digital Work? What’s their Difference? And Why Do These Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media? (2013, background): “Digital labour is a concept that has become a crucial foundation of discussions within the realm of the political economy of the Internet (see Burston, Dyer-Witheford and Hearn 2010; Fuchs and Dyer-Witheford 2013; Scholz 2012).”
This One Does Not Go Up to 11: The Quantified Self Movement as an Alternative Big Data Practice (2014, background): “This puts the QS movement in-line with the broader phenomenon within the technology industry of mixing labor with notions of creative worth and pleasure (Neff, 2012; Scholz, 2012).”