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Archive | 2015

Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective

Thomas Allmer; Sebastian Sevignani; Jernej Amon Prodnik

The period since the mid-1990s has been awash with interpretations of the changes brought about by digital technologies and online social media. Many non-critical accounts have been quick to emphasize how these developments have empowered users by providing increased possibilities for participation, global connectivity and the generation of content that can seriously counter the formerly entrenched inequalities. By making a fourfold challenge to such celebratory accounts, we suggest in this chapter an alternative, critical approach to user participation (Section 1). We maintain that relating user participation to digital labour substantiates the critical approach since it allows speaking of user participation as exploited and participating in the reproduction of social inequality (Section 2). We map two influential critical accounts to user exploitation in informational capitalism. Finally, we apply the suggested critical perspective to the concrete example of social media usage by taking Marx’s understanding of the mode of production into account and situating the business model of social media within (Section 3).


Archive | 2017

Krise der Privatheit

Sebastian Sevignani

Im Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass Privatheit mit den gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen ihrer Erosion intrinsisch verknupft ist und in diesem Sinn „Krisen der Privatheit“ einen gesellschaftlichen Normalfall darstellen. Die gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen werden dabei in der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise und dem Warentausch identifiziert. Die besitzindividualistische Auffassung des Privaten ermoglicht den Handel mit privaten Daten und der ist in der Folge mit dem Einsatz von Uberwachungstechniken fur Profitzwecke und der Monopolisierung von Kommunikationsmittel verbunden und tragt so Machtungleichwichten bei, die ihre strukturelle Gefahrdung begrunden. Weil die Kommodifizierung von Privatheit in dem hier verstandenen Sinne sowohl Praxis als auch Weltsicht ist, muss dieser sowohl polit-okonomisch, als auch ideologiekritisch nachgespurt werden und gesellschaftliche Alternativen zu ihr mussten auch doppelt ansetzten.


tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | 2013

What Is Digital Labour? What Is Digital Work? What’s their Difference? And Why Do These Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media?

Christian Fuchs; Sebastian Sevignani


Science & Public Policy | 2013

The commodification of privacy on the Internet

Sebastian Sevignani


tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | 2012

The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora

Sebastian Sevignani


Archive | 2014

Social networking sites in the surveillance society: critical perspectives and empirical findings

Thomas Allmer; Christian Fuchs; Verena Kreilinger; Sebastian Sevignani


Archive | 2016

Kritische Politische Ökonomie

Sebastian Sevignani


Palgrave Macmillan | 2015

Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age

Thomas Allmer; Sebastian Sevignani; Jernej Amon Prodnik


Isis | 2015

Capital Control, Privacy Crisis, and the Work of Being Watched

Sebastian Sevignani


tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | 2014

DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE SPECIAL ISSUE: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work - Definitions, Dimensions and Forms

Christian Fuchs; Jernej Amon Prodnik; Sebastian Sevignani; Thomas Allmer

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Christian Fuchs

University of Westminster

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Robert Prey

Simon Fraser University

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Marisa N Sandoval

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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