Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 266 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780262340328
Series Statement:
Acting with technology
Content:
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
Content:
Contents -- Preface -- Hamid's Acknowledgments -- Bonnie's Acknowledgments -- Prologue: An (Untold) Story of Economy and Computing -- P.1 Background -- P.2 Looking Back: A Parallel History of Computing and Capitalism -- P.3 Theoretical Orientation: The Political Economy of Computing -- P.4 Theoretical Landscape -- P.5 Looking Ahead: Critique, Nostalgia, and Ideology -- P.6 Outline of the Book -- I Looking Back -- 1 Heteromation: A Revised (His)story of Computing -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Automation -- 1.3 Augmentation -- 1.4 Heteromation -- 2 The Logic of Wealth Accumulation: A Story of Political Economy -- 2.1 The Classic View: Accumulation through Innovation -- 2.2 Marxism: Accumulation through the Extraction of Surplus Value -- 2.3 Neoclassical Theories: Accumulation through Rational Choice -- 2.4 Institutional Theories: Accumulation through Information -- 2.5 The Sharing Economy: Accumulation through Networking -- 2.6 Digital Labor: Accumulation through Free Labor -- 2.7 Affective Capitalism: Accumulation through Persuasion -- 2.8 Digital Capitalism: Accumulation through Repression -- 2.9 Synopsis -- 2.10 Accumulation through Heteromation -- 3 The Dynamics of Capitalist Change: A Story of Resilience -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Modernist Tensions and the Paradox of Liberalism -- 3.3 Capitalism, Post-World War II-1970s: Massification, Satisfaction, and Dissent -- 3.4 Capitalism 1980-Present: Deregulation, Casualization, Surveillance, and Totalized Stimulation -- 3.5 Summary -- 4 Possibilities and Predicaments: A Story of Stimulus -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The First Predicament: Separation -- 4.3 The Second Predicament: Precarity -- 4.4 The Third Predicament: Futility -- 4.5 The Fourth Predicament: Monotony -- 4.6 Summary -- II Varieties of Heteromated Labor -- 5 Communicative Labor: A Story of Separation -- 5.1 Introduction
Content:
5.2 The Networked World: Mobility, Separation, and the Desire to Connect -- 5.3 Social Data: Value Extraction through Communicative Labor -- 5.4 The Invisible Value of Social Data -- 5.5 On the "Fairness" of Communicative Technologies -- 5.6 The Paradox of Mediation -- 6 Cognitive Labor: A Story of Mental Toil -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Cost Saving: Value Extraction through Cognitive Labor -- 6.3 The Invisible Value of Human Cognitive Capacities -- 6.4 A Paradox of Cognitive Capacity -- 7 Creative Labor: A Story of Mental Magic -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Game Mods: Value Extraction through Creative Labor -- 7.3 Let Them Design Logos: Creative Labor in Graphic Design -- 7.4 Rewards: Identity, Community, and Labors of Love -- 7.5 Paradoxes of Creativity: Muddles in Modding and Cheating with Logos -- 8 Emotional Labor: A Story of Caring -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Social Robots -- 8.3 Correspondent Banking -- 8.4 A Paradox of Compassion -- 9 Organizing Labor: A Story of Commitment -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Customer Reviews: Transferring the Cost of Control -- 9.3 Citizen Science: Harnessing the Crowds -- 9.4 The Invisible Participant: From the Bell Curve to the Power Law -- 9.5 The Paradox of Participation: New Predicaments and Possibilities -- III Looking Ahead -- 10 Mechanisms of Participation: A Story of Rewards (and Punishments) -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Convenience through Access -- 10.3 Care of the Self through Technologies of the Self -- 10.4 The Power Law Society and Its Winners -- 10.5 The Masses Unbound -- 10.6 The Largest Mass of Workers Possible -- 11 The Governance of Social Life: A Story of "Work" and Institutional Implosion -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Heteromation and Citizenship: The Personalization of Risk -- 11.3 Heteromation and Deregulation: The On-Demand Economy -- 11.4 Heteromation and Work: Job Readiness, Social Worthiness
Content:
12 Utopias: A Story of Revolution and Reform -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 André Gorz and -- 12.3 Revolution: Recovering Subsistence -- 12.4 Materialities of Production and Distribution -- 12.5 Where We Are Now -- 12.6 Transitioning from Heteromation -- 12.7 Reform -- 12.8 Back to (Part of) the Future -- Epilogue: The Story of Machines and Us -- Detour 1: Personal Doubts and Social Demands -- Detour 2: Magical Machines and Helpless Humans -- Detour 3: Dynamics of Change, Statics of Statistics, and Traps of Psychologizing -- Detour 4: Inside or Outside of Capitalism? -- Detour 5: To Automate or to Heteromate? -- Detour 6: Of Horses and Humans-and Machines -- Detour 7: The Slippery Slope of a Critical Perspective -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Epilogue -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262036252
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ekbia, Hamid R., 1955 - Heteromation, and other stories of computing and capitalism Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2017 ISBN 9780262036252
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Technische Innovation
;
Computer
;
Arbeitswerttheorie
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