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Tiziana Terranova, “Free Labor”

Tiziana Terranova, “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy”

Intro

NetSlaves + volunteers of AOL case – necessary backlash against the glamorization of digital labor
“The NetSlaves are not simply a typical form of labor on the Internet; they are also embody of a complex relation to labor that is widespread in late capitalist society”(99).
a provision of… »

Cyber-colonialism?

Cyber-colonialism?
Latin Trade, June, 2000 by Jack Epstein
BY NOW, WE HAVE ALL HEARD OF the digital divide–the widening gap between the haves and have-flats of the Internet world.
In the United States, the Clinton administration is narrowing the gap by installing computers in schools, libraries and other public places nationwide. While Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez recently… »