Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction
‘This book could mark a ‘maturing’ of the digital labour debates, and as such is to be welcomed.’ ‒ Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario, Canada ‘This empirically wide-ranging analysis of the labour-technology relationship could not be more timely or pressing.’ ‒ Juliet Webster, Work &...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
| Series: | Dynamics of Virtual Work
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Technology, Labour and Politics in the 21st Century: Old struggles in New Clothing; Paško Bilić, Jaka Primorac, Bjarki Valtysson
- 2. Industry 4.0: Robotics and Contradictions; Sabine Pfeiffer. 3
- From Ford to Facebook: Time and Technologies of Work; Eran Fisher
- 4. The Production of Algorithms and the Cultural Politics of Web Search; Paško Bilić
- 5. Algorithms, Dashboards and Datafication: A Critical Evaluation of Social Media Monitoring; Ivo Furman
- 6. Efficient Worker or Reflective Practitioner? Competing Technical Rationalities of Media Software Tools; Ingrid Forsler and Julia Velkova
- 7. In the Golden Cage of Creative Industries: Public-Private Valuing of Female Creative Labour; Valerija Barada and Jaka Primorac
- 8. Digital Inclusion for Better Job Opportunities? The Case of Women E-Included through Lifelong Learning Programmes; Lidia Arroyo Prieto
- 9. A Recent Story About Uber; Brian Beaton
- 10. Protocols of Control: Collaboration in Free and Open Source Software; Reinhard Anton Handler
- 11. Playbour and the Gamification of Work: Empowerment, Exploitation and Fun as Labour Dynamics; Raul Ferrer-Conill
- 12. Audience Metrics as a Decision-making Factor in Slovene Online News Organizations; Aleksander Sašo Slaček Brlek
- 13. Media Use and the Extended Commodification of the Lifeworld; Göran Bolin
- 14. Regulation, Technology, and Civic Agency: The Case of Facebook; Bjarki Valtysson
- 15. Spinning the Web: The Contradictions of Researching and Regulating Digital Work and Labour; Pamela Meil