Wentworth
Institute of Technology
Digital labor : the Internet as playground and factory /
Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates-leaving th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2013.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates-leaving their ""deep"" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and predict users' interests and habits. This unique collection of essays provides a wide-ranging account of the dark side of the Internet. It claims that the divide between leisure time and work has vanished. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 258 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203145791 0203145798 9781136506703 1136506705 |
| Language: | Text in English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |