online labour

On Exploitation (quoting Mark Andrejevic from IDC list, 11 jun 2009)

Howard's post got me thinking about the need to tighten up an understanding of what we might mean by the term "exploitation." The very broad sense in which it is often used -- to indicate that someone else benefits from our labor -- isn't a particularly useful one.

What value (and currencies to represent it) is involved?

Why does "free" work still pay? What alternative renumeration do we deal with? What values count?

The Internet as Playground and Factory

"The Internet as Playground and Factory" is a to-come conference and until now a discussion thread on the iDC list (list by the institute for distributet creativity, http://distributedcreativity.org/).

Criticism of Open Collaboration

A collection of articles and links that look at open collaboration from a critical point of view

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