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Julien Deswaef

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Joined 2 years, 6 months ago

New year's resolution is to read moar books. So here I am.

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Trebor Scholz: Digital Labor (2013, Routledge) No rating

Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to …

[Video game gold farmers'] position as virtual service workers mimics that of illegal immigrants and other low-end workers in service economies in the global South. They are rou- tinely racially profiled and harassed by other players in MMORPGs, producing a climate of anti-Asian sentiment.

Digital Labor by  (Page 192)

"Don't hate the players, hate the game. The racalization of labor rn World of Warcraft" chapter by Lisa Nakamura

#WoW

Trebor Scholz: Digital Labor (2013, Routledge) No rating

Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to …

[Word clouds] are elements of communicative capitalism, elements that reinforce the collapse of meaning and argument and thus hinder argument and opposition. Any words can be clouded. At Wordle you can make a new one out of speeches from Kennedy and Khrushchev, Ann Coulter or Sean "Puffy" Combs. Anyone you like.

Digital Labor by  (Page 144)

Chapter 8 : Whatever blogging by Jodi Dean

#WordCloud

Trebor Scholz: Digital Labor (2013, Routledge) No rating

Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to …

Personalized participatory media is a problem not only because of its personalization of participation. More than that is its injunction that we participate ever more in personalization: make your own avatar, video, profile, blog, mobster, video, app. Participation becomes indistinguishable from personalization, the continued cultivation of one's person. Leave your mark.

Digital Labor by  (Page 140)

Chapter 8 : Whatever blogging by Jodi Dean

Trebor Scholz: Digital Labor (2013, Routledge) No rating

Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to …

Amazon.com's initial motivation to build Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) emerged after the failure of its artificial intelligence programs in the task of finding duplicate product pages on its retail website (Pontin 2007)

Digital Labor by  (Page 80)

Chapter 5 : Return of the crowds by Ayhan Aytes

#AI #Amazon

Trebor Scholz: Digital Labor (2013, Routledge) No rating

Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to …

The hacker class does not march down the boulevard behind red banners on May Day. But it is fully capable of organizing around net neutrality, creative commons, open publishing in science, challenging stupid and harmful patents, and so on.

Digital Labor by  (Page 71)

Chapter 4: Considerations on a hacker manifesto by McKenzie Wark

Don Norman: The Design of Everyday Things (2013, Basic Books)

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which …

It is relatively easy to design for the situation where everything goes well, where people use the device in the way that was intended, and no unforeseen events occur. The tricky part is to design for when things go wrong.

The Design of Everyday Things by  (Page 198)