Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
 Technology, Labour and Politics in the 21st Century: Old Struggles in New Clothing  (Paško Bilić, Jaka Primorac, Bjarki Valtýsson)....Pages 1-16
Front Matter ....Pages 17-17
 Industry 4.0: Robotics and Contradictions  (Sabine Pfeiffer)....Pages 19-36
 From Ford to Facebook: Time and Technologies of Work  (Eran Fisher)....Pages 37-55
 The Production of Algorithms and the Cultural Politics of Web Search  (Paško Bilić)....Pages 57-76
 Algorithms, Dashboards and Datafication: A Critical Evaluation of Social Media Monitoring  (Ivo Furman)....Pages 77-95
Front Matter ....Pages 97-97
 Efficient Worker or Reflective Practitioner? Competing Technical Rationalities of Media Software Tools  (Ingrid Forsler, Julia Velkova)....Pages 99-119
 In the Golden Cage of Creative Industries: Public-Private Valuing of Female Creative Labour  (Valerija Barada, Jaka Primorac)....Pages 121-139
 Digital Inclusion for Better Job Opportunities? The Case of Women E-Included Through Lifelong Learning Programmes  (Lidia Arroyo)....Pages 141-158
Front Matter ....Pages 159-159
 A Recent Story About Uber  (Brian Beaton)....Pages 161-174
 Protocols of Control: Collaboration in Free and Open Source Software  (Reinhard Anton Handler)....Pages 175-192
 Playbour and the Gamification of Work: Empowerment, Exploitation and Fun as Labour Dynamics  (Raul Ferrer-Conill)....Pages 193-210
 Audience Metrics as a Decision-Making Factor in Slovene Online News Organizations  (Aleksander Sašo Slaček Brlek)....Pages 211-232
Front Matter ....Pages 233-233
 Media Use and the Extended Commodification of the Lifeworld  (Göran Bolin)....Pages 235-252
 Regulation, Technology, and Civic Agency: The Case of Facebook  (Bjarki Valtýsson)....Pages 253-269
 Spinning the Web: The Contradictions of Researching and Regulating Digital Work and Labour  (Pamela Meil)....Pages 271-290
Back Matter ....Pages 291-296