The Expropriation of Digital Labor and What to Do About It
by Trebor Scholz on Nov 21, 2009
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triciawang
In the UK, web use now equals that of the US (overcoming “privateness”)
The means of communication are now in the hands of the people.
Small acts of shopping require low-level acts of labor previously performed by paid employees.
Fast food restaurants
Air travelers are requested to print out their tickets on service kiosks
Walmart
583mio/15bn, Commercialization of Social Life: Creation of Value.
The predictive power of co-relation
Work is extremely casual and unskilled work
The value that google uses is already created by others.
The value that google uses is already created by others.
Pasquinelli, Matteo
“...in the end online “free labour” appears to be more
dominant than the “wealth of networks.”http://www.rekombinant.org/docs/Ideology-of-Free-Culture.pdf
Disproportionate control of the public sphere
11% of all time spent
on single site is spent on Myspace
The commons are commercial and art and activist work
is taking place on that.
The question should not be how to appease users by moving the scale of deception left or right but by offering tools for referral.
Pasquinelli, Matteo
“...in the end online “free labour” appears to be more
dominant than the “wealth of networks.”http://www.rekombinant.org/docs/Ideology-of-Free-Culture.pdf
Disproportionate control of the public sphere
11% of all time spent
on single site is spent on Myspace
The commons are commercial and art and activist work
is taking place on that.
Pasquinelli, Matteo
“...in the end online “free labour” appears to be more
dominant than the “wealth of networks.”http://www.rekombinant.org/docs/Ideology-of-Free-Culture.pdf
Disproportionate control of the public sphere
11% of all time spent
on single site is spent on Myspace
The commons are commercial and art and activist work
is taking place on that.
not: withdrawal into binary oppositions: them and us, activism against
Deep in the forest there is a door to another world
The Web is about
creativity, collaboration, courage, and collective intelligence,
but it also about
control, centralization, consumption, and crisis.
We harness interruptive technology to expose the secret possibilities of the workday. As a time-stealing agency, the Bureau of Workplace Interruptions works directly with employees to invisibly insert intimate exchange into the flow of the workday. Our promise is to create interruptions that challenge the efficiency of our audience and the social and economic conditions of the modern workplace.
These “NO” events, called NOSOs, take place in designated cafés, parks, libraries, bookstores, and other public spaces. Participants – whose identities remain unknown to one another – agree to arrive at an assigned time and remain alone, quiet and un-connected, while at the same time knowing that another “Friend” is present in the space.
NOSOs are scheduled by users through the NOSO website. They last for a duration of 1 - 30 minutes, after which participants disperse and return to their regular activities.