Digital labour and prosumer capitalism : the US matrix /: the US matrix. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Olivier Frayssé, Paris-Sorbonne University, France, Mathieu O'Neil, University of Canberra, Australia.
• Editors: Frayssé, Olivier, 1953-; O'Neil, Mathieu
• Contents: Introduction: Hacked in the USA: Prosumption and Digital Labour; Olivier Frayssé and Mathieu O'Neil; 1. Setting the Standards: the USA and Capitalism in the Digital Age; Ursula Huws; 2. How the US Counterculture Redefined Work for the Age of the Internet; Olivier Frayssé; 3. The Costs of Paying, or Three Histories of Swiping; Michael Palm; 4: Work and Prosumerism: Collaborative Consumption in the United States; Marie-Christine Pauwels; 5. The Moral Technical Imaginaries of Internet Convergence in an American Television Network; Adam Fish; 6. Migration Machine: Marketing Mexico in the Age of ICTs; Eve Bantman-Masum; 7. The Dialectics of Prosumption in the Digital Age; Eran Fisher; 8. 'Whistle While You Work.' Work, Emotion, and Contests of Authority at the Happiest Place on Earth; Thibaut Clément; 9. The Coming of Augmented Property: A Constructivist Lesson for the Critics of Intellectual Property; Johan Söderberg; 10. Wikipedians on Wage Labour within Peer Production; Arwid Lund; Afterword: Towards Cloud Labour; Vincent Mosco
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4; Labor; Telecommuting -- United States; Telecommuting -- Economic aspects; Business -- Information technology; Telekommunikation; Digitaltechnik; Informationstechnik; Verbraucherverhalten; Kapitalismus; Social Aspects; Consumer Behavior; Sociology/General; Globalization; Sociology: work & labour; Political economy; USA
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137473912; 1137473916
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