---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mayo Fuster Morell <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 4:14 PM Subject: [members] Fwd: [tripleC] New Special Issue Published: Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work To: P2P Value Members List <[email protected]> In case it is of your interest: [tripleC] New Special Issue Published: Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [tripleC] New Special Issue Published: Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 19:44:47 +0200 From: Christian Fuchs <[email protected]> <[email protected]> To: Fuster Morell Mayo <[email protected]> <[email protected]> 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 Workhttp://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 _______________ tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society | http://www.triple-c.at . 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