see item 2 from the moral economies conference, <a href="http://www.moraleconomies.leeds.ac.uk/abstracts/">http://www.moraleconomies.leeds.ac.uk/abstracts/</a><br><br>links on the authors and their thesis would be appreciated,<br>
<br>see<br><br><h3>Hesmondhalgh, David: <strong>Free creative labour and exploitation</strong></h3>
<p>A dominant theme of recent critical analysis of digital media,
user-generated content and cultural industries is that they involve
unpaid work (‘free labour’) on the part of participants. Critiques of
‘free labour’ have provided some stimulating and necessary interventions
against complacent celebrations of creative labour, and of the
relations between production and consumption in the digital era, but
some significant conceptual issues concerning capitalism, exploitation,
power and freedom remain underexplored. I argue that the frequent
pairing of the term ‘free labour’ with the concept of exploitation is
often unconvincing and rather incoherent, at least as so far developed
by the most-cited analysts; and I explore what political demands might
and might not coherently be derived from critical accounts of free
labour (arguing that the internship system is by far the most
significant example of free labour in the contemporary cultural
industries).</p>
<h3>Hunsinger, Jeremy: <strong>From Hacklabs to Hacker Markets: becoming
complicit in self-exploitation</strong></h3>
<p>Hacklabs and Hackerspaces are a global movement where individual rent
spaces online and off in order to have a shared workspace in which to
create or reproduce technologies and techniques that they value. As
these labs have developed, their members have become complicit in their
own self-exploitation and marketization, developing open systems that
are commoditized and marketed through the community, using its networks,
and developing the community, some of whom explicitly against elements
of the commoditization of their work. Based in an analysis of over 300
hackerspace and hacklab’s blogs, wikis, and related social media
outlets, this research describes the tensions between the community and
the market they create by examining what these groups post in the public
arena. From this data, we can see a wide variety of conflicting
statements about the nature of their participation in their community
and the markets in which they participate. These conflicts are even
occasionally recognized reflexively with and across groups creating
arenas for discussion, debate, and consensus-building. This reflexive
reconstruction and renegotiation of their relative perspectives is an
emotional and affective politics of becoming complicity and
self-legitimizing a form of self-exploitation. Granted, most of the
members of the community does not see the relationship between market
and community as self-exploiting, but they cover their affective
responses with normalizing encodings and justifications. </p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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