Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism The US Matrix [Hardcover]

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.Introduction: Hacked in the USA: Prosumption and Digital Labour; Olivier Frayss? and Mathieu O'Neil
1. Setting the Standards: the USA and Capitalism in the Digital Age; Ursula Huws
2. How the US Counterculture Redefined Work for the Age of the Internet; Olivier Frayss?
3. The Costs of Paying, or Three Histories of Swiping; Michael Palm
4: Work and Prosumerism: Collaborative Consumption in the United States; Marie-Christine Pauwels
5. The Moral Technical Imaginaries of Internet Convergence in an American Television Network; Adam Fish
6. Migration Machine: Marketing Mexico in the Age of ICTs; Eve Bantman-Masum
7. The Dialectics of Prosumption in the Digital Age; Eran Fisher
8. 'Whistle While You Work.' Work, Emotion, and Contests of Authority at the Happiest Place on Earth; Thibaut Cl?ment
9. The Coming of Augmented Property: A Constructivist Lesson for the Critics of Intellectual Property; Johan S?derberg
10. Wikipedians on Wage Labour within Peer Production; Arwid Lund
Afterword: Towards Cloud Labour; Vincent Mosco

'This book will be of great interest to historians of the United States as they explore the cultural transformations of the digital age.' -Andrew Diamond, Paris-Sorbonne-University, France

'Digital capitalism marks an epochal moment of historical transition, both in society and in thought. Proliferating digital devices are enabling a rapidly growing share of all human activity to be appropriated by capital. What does this signify for labour? The contributors to this volume a welcome mix of seasoned analCÇ