[Sighfis-l] Fwd: [tripleC] New Special Issue Published: Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[tripleC] New Special Issue Published: Theorising Digital 
Labour and Virtual Work
Date: 	Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:43:49 +0200
From: 	Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs at uti.at>
To: 	Michel J. Menou <micheljmenou at gmail.com>



Dear Readers of tripleC,

I want to point you towards a new special issue of tripleC that has just
been published. The articles are available as pdf, html, and as one
comprehensive pdf for download at:
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current

Special issue: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour
and Virtual Work - Definitions, Dimensions and Forms
Edited by Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik, Sebastian
Sevignani, Thomas Allmer
in context of the COST Action Dynamics of Virtual Work
http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/

This special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique aims to
contribute to building a theoretical framework for the critical analysis of
digital labour, virtual work, and related concepts that can initiate further
debates, inform empirical studies, and inspire social struggles connected to
work and labour in and beyond digital capitalism. The papers collected in
this special issue (a) provide systematic definitions of digital labour, (b)
analyse its specific dimension, and (c) discuss different forms of digital
labour.
The papers collected in this special issue theorise digital labour as a
multifaceted field characterised by exploitation, alienation,
precariousness, power, inequality, ideology, and struggle. These problems of
digital labour are however not inherent to digital technology as such but
result from its inclusion and application in capitalist relations of
production.
Theorising digital labour, as labour that produces or makes use of digital
technologies, can help to understand its problems, limits, potentials, and
contradictions. It can therefore highlight the need for social change and
inspire political action. However, the act of freeing digital technology
from being an instrument for the domination of labour requires to go beyond
just interpreting the world and to engage in social struggles that want to
change it.

TOC:

Introduction: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and
Virtual Work—Definitions, Dimensions, and Forms
Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik, Sebastian Sevignani,
Thomas Allmer

Work and Labour as Metonymy and Metaphor
Olivier Frayssé

Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising
and Analysing Digital Labour
Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval

Circuits of Labour: A Labour Theory of the iPhone Era
Jack Linchuan Qiu, Melissa Gregg, Kate Crawford

Concepts of Digital Labour: Schelling's Naturphilosophie
Kevin Michael Mitchell

Digital Labour and the Use-value of Human Work. On the Importance of
Labouring Capacity for understanding Digital Capitalism
Sabine Pfeiffer

The Ideological Reproduction: (Free) Labouring and (Social) Working within
Digital Landscapes
Marco Briziarelli

Alienation and Digital Labour—A Depth-Hermeneutic Inquiry into Online
Commodification and the Unconscious
Steffen Krüger, Jacob Johanssen

Production Cultures and Differentiations of Digital Labour
Yujie Chen

Digital Labour in Chinese Internet Industries
Bingqing Xia

Will Work For Free: The Biopolitics of Unwaged Digital Labour
Brian Brown

Toward a Political Economy of ‘Audience Labour’ in the Digital Era
Brice Nixon

Playing, Gaming, Working and Labouring: Framing the Concepts and Relations
Arwid Lund
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