Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 166
Search Results for digital labor
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Free Labor: PRODUCING CULTURE FOR THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 33–58.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Tiziana Terranova Duke University Press 2000 2. Terranova 4/24/00 11:22 AM Page 33
Free Labor
PRODUCING CULTURE FOR THE DIGITAL ECONOMY...
View articletitled, Free <span class="search-highlight">Labor</span>: PRODUCING CULTURE FOR THE <span class="search-highlight">DIGITAL</span> ECONOMY
View
PDF
for article titled, Free <span class="search-highlight">Labor</span>: PRODUCING CULTURE FOR THE <span class="search-highlight">DIGITAL</span> ECONOMY
Journal Article
Telecommuting Pedagogies: White Plasticity and the Ecological Imaginaries of Working from Home
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 21–48.
Published: 01 June 2022
... more integrated and rounded personalities that would radiate outward, creating emotionally mature children and stronger community bonds. Emerging at a moment when “telecommuting” condensed the political stakes of digital labor, this strand of discourse reveals how working from home was appropriated...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Digital Precarity Manifesto
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 77–93.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Precarity Lab Digital technologies have helped consolidate the wealth and influence of a small number of people. By taking advantage of flexible labor and by shifting accountability to individuals, sharing economy platforms have furthered insecure conditions for racial, ethnic, and sexual...
Journal Article
How to Be as Productive as Balzac
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 131–133.
Published: 01 September 2016
... pieces of wisdom gleaned from the career of this eminent content pioneer. Believe it or not, today’s content creators can learn a lot from a writer-entrepreneur who was born two hundred years before the founding of Google. Honoré de Balzac content strategy productivity digital labor ...
FIGURES
Journal Article
The Surveillance Commodity, Unequal Exchange, and the (In)Visible Subject in Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2017
... This shift to an economy of signifiers, combined with a corporate push toward deregulation, automation, and digitization, exponentially accelerates the flow of capital. 24 Even as finance capital opens the door for an economy of signs, it is important to establish that labor is still integral...
Journal Article
Technologies of Hope (Fiction, Platforms, Management)
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 51–79.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the modern surplus population includes gig workers of all stripes. 111 “ALIVE” nuances this law by adding that emergent digital tools, namely, employee tracking—or, perhaps more accurate, employee capture —platforms, constitute managerial labor-saving technologies. While Marx observed...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 99–120.
Published: 01 June 2015
... the claims of democracy; the affective labor of their “illegal” cultural forms has the potential to radically alter sociality amid an anti-Brown world by endowing migrants and other deportable subjects with ontological leverage as a practice of everyday life under terror. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015...
Journal Article
Labor/Value/Information
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 95–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group Labor, value, and information emerge on a continuum in the now long history of commodification because commodification was also an incipient digitization. This emergence positions the social as a substrate of what Jonathan Beller calls “computational capital...
Journal Article
In the Wake of Visual Failure: Twitter, Sandra Bland, and an Anticipatory Nonspectatorship
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Legacy . Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto . London : Verso , 2020 . Scholz Trebor , ed. Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory . New York : Routledge , 2012 . Sexton Jared . “ The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-pessimism and Black Optimism .” InTensions...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
... to mark their humanity, make legible their legal and extralegal exclusion from societies built by their labor, and form new worlds by transforming and creating inclusive and equitable social conditions. In this article, I suggest that black digital practice is the interface by which black freedom...
View articletitled, Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the <span class="search-highlight">Digital</span> Crossroads
View
PDF
for article titled, Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the <span class="search-highlight">Digital</span> Crossroads
Journal Article
Marx, Memory, Loss: Ways of Reading Capital
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 105–125.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Anna McCarthy Scholarly marginalia may be contributing to the automation of thought. ©2016 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2016 marginalia mental labor David Harvey Karl Marx Capital digital culture When you hold a book in your hands, you are holding a piece...
FIGURES
| View All (12)
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2005
... to encompass the digital sublime, the
present-day mythos engendered and sustained by the hyped-up mania for
new digital media and information technology. There is little to be seen of
labor in the cultural discourse of the digital sublime...
Journal Article
Sound, Knowledge, and the “Immanence of Human Failure”: Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 13–34.
Published: 01 March 2010
... “good” music to more people, more easily, untethered from the
painstaking and time-consuming labor of learning to play the piano. For
some, this held the promise of fighting back what they saw as the degen-
erative, corrupting effects of the rising tide of popular music. A few con-
temporaries...
View articletitled, Sound, Knowledge, and the “Immanence of Human Failure”: Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano
View
PDF
for article titled, Sound, Knowledge, and the “Immanence of Human Failure”: Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano
Journal Article
Biometrics and Post-9/11 Technostalgia
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 35–53.
Published: 01 June 2005
... involved the labor-intensive process of physically locating fi les and
distributing records through the postal service or some other form of because the
hard-copy transmission. For example, the decentralized, regionally based...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 1–15.
Published: 01 June 2002
... with technology,” to borrow a phrase from
historian of science and medicine Evelynn Hammonds, does not account
for the centrality of black people’s labor in modernization and industrial-
ization as well as the historical truths of black...
Journal Article
Adorno by the Pool; Or, Television Then and Now
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 71–87.
Published: 01 June 2016
... television demands through its mode of address, a mode that involves a presumptively female viewer whose labor time is coextensive with television time and whose attention television commodifies as it simultaneously constrains the viewer’s imaginative possibilities. That’s his take on Our Miss Brooks...
Journal Article
Editors' Introduction
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 131–133.
Published: 01 December 2015
... rely on the very tools through which Europeans represented their
aspirations for labor, land, and power. This roundtable explores both the
possibilities as well as the constraints of the new spatial history and the
digital modes of representing places...
Journal Article
Objective Vision: Confusing the Subject of Computer Vision
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 35–55.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., experience, and knowledge as digital material to be mined. Zuboff uses the term rendition to name both the demand and the process through which data are produced and refined. 11 The rendering of classification decisions into training data for computer vision algorithms dispossesses people of their labor...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
Journal Article
By Design: Remapping the Colonial Archive
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 142–147.
Published: 01 December 2015
... with the colonization of
the Americas and the exploitation of American land, indigenous peoples,
and African labor: as Ricardo Padrón and David Woodward argue, a
“cartographic rationalization of space” enabled an “idea of a finite world
over which...
Journal Article
Clutter and Clodder
Available to Purchase
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 127–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Labour or austerity. A New York Times article got it right on the nose recently with the phrase “compassionate organizing.” 3 But within the sympathy there whispers the horror inspired by hoarders, and within that, the shaming of the introvert. A more shy-positive approach would point out...
1
