Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism

The US Matrix

Mathieu O'Neil, Olivier Frayssé, Mathieu O'Neil, Olivier Frayssé

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781349558605
  9781137473899
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137473905
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Labour Economics
• Index: Social Sciences

In the digital age tasks are increasingly modularised and consumers are increasingly becoming prosumers. Replacing digital labour and prosumption within an American context and the wider political economy, this volume presents a critical account of the forces which shape contemporary subjects, networks, and labour practices.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Series Preface
• Introduction: Hacked in the USA: Prosumption and Digital Labour
• 1 Setting the Standards: The USA and Capitalism in the Digital Age
• 2 How the US Counterculture Redefined Work for the Age of the Internet
• 3 The Costs of Paying, or Three Histories of Swiping
• 4 Work and Prosumerism: Collaborative Consumption in the United States
• 5 The Moral Technical Imaginaries of Internet Convergence in an American Television Network
• 6 Migration Machine: Marketing Mexico in the Age of ICTs
• 7 The Dialectics of Prosumption in the Digital Age
• 8 “Whistle While You Work”: Work, Emotion, and Contests of Authority at the Happiest Place on Earth
• 9 The Coming of Augmented Property: A Constructivist Lesson for the Critics of Intellectual Property
• 10 Wikipedians on Wage Labour within Peer Production
• Conclusion: Digital Labour Takes to the Cloud
• Index