Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-245) and index
Introduction. Why does digital labor matter now? / Trebor Scholz -- pt. 1. The shifting sites of labor markets. 1. On the digital labor question / Andrew Ross ; 2. Free labor / Tiziana Terranova ; 3. The political economy of cosmopolis / Sean Cubitt ; 4. Considerations on a hacker manifesto / McKenzie Wark -- pt. 2. Interrogating modes of digital labor. 5. Return of the crowds : mechanical turk and neoliberal states of exception / Ayhan Aytes ; 6. Fandom as free labor / Abigail De Kosnik ; 7. The digital, labor and measure beyond biopolitics / Patricia Clough ; 8. Whatever blogging / Jodi Dean -- pt. 3. The violence of participation. 9. Estranged free labor / Mark Andrejevic ; 10. Digitality and the media of dispossession / Jonathan Beller ; 11. Don't hate the player, hate the fame : the racialization of labor in world of warcraft / Lisa Nakamura -- pt. 4. Organizing networks in an age of vulnerable publics. 12. Thesis on digital labor in an emerging P2P economy / Michel Bauwens ; 13. Class and exploitation on the Internet / Christian Fuchs ; 14. Acts of translation : organizing networks as algorithmic technologies of the common / Ned Rossitter and Soenke Zehle