Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy

By Tiziana Terranova. 2000

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Labor in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet (2010, background): “Internet users as a new class: Terranova (2000) argues that Internet users constitute a kind of free labor that is exploited by capital.”
Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject (2018, background): “…arguments from four or five decades ago that the capitalist organization of work had extended from the factory to the whole of society: the well-known Autonomist notion of the “social factory” (Gill and Pratt 2008; Terranova 2000; Tronti 1966; more recently, Hardt and Negri 2017; Lazzarato 2014).”
Wikinomics and its discontents: a critical analysis of Web 2.0 business manifestos (2009, background): “Neo-Marxists have countered the myth of co-creation, arguing that customers in the Web 2.0 economy often provide free labour; user-generated content simply means that consumers are taking a lot of work out of the hands of producers (de Peuter and Witheford, 2005; Terranova, 2000).”
Sharing and Web 2.0: The emergence of a keyword (2013, background): “…are many and varied, of most relevance here are those that deal with the ways in which SNSs and other Web 2.0 enterprises make money, or those that explain how companies use Web 2.0 tools and platforms to exploit the ‘free labor’ (Terranova, 2000) of the users of and visitors to these platforms.”
Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four ‘positions’ (2011, unknown): “See, for example, Berardi (2009), Cleaver (1999), Coté and Pybus (2007), Hardt and Negri (2004, 2009); Kidd (2003), Negri (2008a, 2008b), and Terranova (2000, 2004).”
Alternative and Activist New Media (2011, unknown): “Thus collective projects create alienation, extract “surplus value” from the labor of legions of creative workers, and enrich investors, much as factory work does in the context of industrial capitalism (Terranova, 2009 [2000]).”
Community building on crowdwork platforms: Autonomy and control of online workers? (2020, background): “Moreover, the results indicate that the crowds’ interaction is not really ‘free labour’ that is ‘voluntarily given and (. . .) enjoyed’ (Terranova, 2000: 33) but required either directly (e.g. through reputation points) or indirectly (e.g. due to information asymmetries and rationalized management).”
The politics of ‘platforms’ (2010, background): “…web – not to mention that, for the most part, the users generating the content do not enjoy any revenue in return (Cammaerts, 2008; Petersen, 2008; Terranova, 2000, 2004).2 YouTube has yet to turn a profit based on its advertising model: an April 2009 report estimated that YouTube would earn…”
China's E-Commerce: Empowering Rural Women? (2019, unknown): “Women are under 39 Terranova 2000, 34.”
Dallas Smythe Today - The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory. Prolegomena to a Digital Labour Theory of Value. (2012, background): “Tiziana Terranova made an early contribution to the digital labour debate by introducing the notion of free Internet labour: “Simultaneously voluntarily given and unwaged, enjoyed and exploited, free labor on the Net includes the activity of building Web sites, modifying software packages, reading a”
Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (2013, background): “Fan creation ‘in the wild’ – to connect Jenkins with studies on the participation of lay people in biomedical research – can be a very rich field that companies can harness to capitalise on new content and get in touch with their public (Terranova 2000).”
Production, Consumption, Prosumption (2010, background): “However, many others clearly do not see it this way, as is evidenced by those upset with LinkedIn, or in other examples, such as AOL’s struggles with volunteer labor and (non-)payment (see Postigo, 2003 and Terranova, 2000).”
Creative industries: a new direction? (2009, background): “In the light of the above example, the problem is not just that of ‘free labour’ ( Terranova, 2000 ).”
Co-creating Second Life (2008, background): “…the Lindens tap into the social and economic dimensions of customer knowledge by providing a platform and other tools for consumer creativity (Sawhney, Verona, and Prandelli 2005; Terranova 2000), thereby funding the ideological and tangible recruitment of immaterial labor for profitable ends.”
The quantified self: What counts in the neoliberal workplace (2016, background): “No wonder, then, that capital seeks to quantify the fields of cultural production and consumption where work has long been underpaid and undervalued (Terranova, 2000).”