Labor in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet

By Christian Fuchs. The Information Society, 2010

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto (2019, background): “In capitalism, the fundamental value of goods is expressed through their quantitative relation with money, which allows them to be exchanged as commodities (Fuchs, 2010).”
Wikipedia (2014, background): “Unpaid users create surplus value such that the rate of surplus value rs = s / v (surplus value / variable capital=wages) converges toward infinity (see Fuchs 2010).”
The limits of transparency: Data brokers and commodification (2018, background): “forms (Cohen, 2008; Freedman, 2012; Fuchs, 2010) and often highlight the exploitative”
The like economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web (2013, background): “It has been understood as a form of social production (Scholz and Hartzog, 2008), as prosumption or working consumers/users (Fuchs, 2010) or as free labour (Terranova, 2008), as users voluntarily engage in productive activities without financial reward.”
When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction (2019, unknown): “…to the political economic relationship between data and capitalism, such as ‘surveillance capitalism’ (Foster and McChesney, 2014; Zuboff, 2015), ‘informational capitalism’ (Fuchs, 2010), ‘communicative capitalism’ (Dean, 2005), ‘platform capitalism’ (Srnicek, 2016) and ‘iCapitalism’ (Duff, 2016).”
An Alternative View of Privacy on Facebook (2011, background): “Due to the permanent activity of the recipients and their status as prosumers, we can say that in the case of Facebook and the Internet the audience commodity is an Internet prosumer commodity (Fuchs 2010 [64]).”
Google Search: Hyper-visibility as a Means of Rendering Black Women and Girls Invisible (2013, background): “As users engage with technologies like search engines, they dynamically co-construct content within the technology itself.(18) For example, clicking on links and hyperlinking websites together is one way of affecting search results—but only one.”
Capitalizing on the look: insights into the glance, attention economy, and Instagram (2018, background): “Scholars often argue that interactive technologies contribute to labor exploitation, wherein social media sites leverage free access for appropriated user-generated data/content (see Andrejevic, 2009; Fuchs, 2010, 2012).”
Digital prosumption labour on social media in the context of the capitalist regime of time (2014, background): “Fuchs Christian (2010) Labor in informational capitalism and on the Internet.”
Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession: New metaphors for daily data (2015, unknown): “Previous work has suggested social media platforms commodify the attention time of users, creating infinitely exploitable “prosumers” (Fuchs, 2010, 2011).”
Blockchain and value systems in the sharing economy: The illustrative case of Backfeed (2017, background): “Nevertheless, certain infelicities become evident with regards to privacy and misuse of data, (Slee, 2016); labour rights and conditions (Fuchs, 2010; Webster & Randle, 2016) and numerous legal and regulatory challenges (EC, 2016).”