Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism
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Heteromated Labor: Unpaid Contribution to Digital Economy
This book provides valuable insights into how our daily digital activities generate value for others, resulting in what the authors call "heteromated labor". They explore different types of these activities, such as communicative, cognitive, creative, emotional, and organizing labor. The authors expose the hidden exploitation of low-cost or free labor in digital networks, while also offering a hopeful vision of how this system can be reconfigured to provide more benefits to end users. Overall, this book is a must-read for those interested in the intersection of technology, labor, and economics.
Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism
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ISBN: 9780262036252
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $53.11
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date of Publication: 2017-05-04
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections:
Economics
Goodreads rating: 3.92
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An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.The computerization of the economy--and everyday life--has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people into work that is hidden, poorly compensated, or accepted as part of being a "user" of digital technology. Through our clicks and swipes, logins and profiles, emails and posts, we are, more or less willingly, participating in digital activities that yield economic value to others but little or no return to us. Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie Nardi call this kind of participation--the extraction of economic value from low-cost or free labor in computer-mediated networks--"heteromation." In this book, they explore the social and technological processes through which economic value is extracted from digitally mediated work, the nature of the value created, and what prompts people to participate in the process.Arguing that heteromation is a new logic of capital accumulation, Ekbia and Nardi consider different kinds of heteromated labor: communicative labor, seen in user-generated content on social media; cognitive labor, including microwork and self-service; creative labor, from gaming environments to literary productions; emotional labor, often hidden within paid jobs; and organizing labor, made up of collaborative groups such as citizen scientists. Ekbia and Nardi then offer a utopian vision: heteromation refigured to bring end users more fully into the prosperity of capitalism.
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