Heteromation, and other stories of computing and capitalism / Hamid R. Ekbia and Bonnie A. Nardi.
By: Ekbia, H. R. (Hamid Reza) [author.].
Contributor(s): Nardi, Bonnie A [author.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: Acting with technology: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2017]Description: 1 PDF (xiv, 266 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262340328; 9780262340304; 0262340305.Subject(s): Euro courses. Technological innovation -- Economic aspects | Euro courses. Technological innovation | Labor theory of value | Capitalism | Capitalism | Economics | Labor theory of value | Advertising | Airports | Algorithm design and analysis | Artificial intelligence | Automation | Automobiles | Banking | Big Data | Business | Collaboration | Companies | Computers | Creativity | Cultural differences | Customer services | Data mining | Dementia | Drives | Earth | Economics | Ecosystems | Education | Electronic publishing | Employment | Encyclopedias | Ethics | Fabrics | Face | Facebook | Finance | Force | Games | Google | Graphics | History | Human factors | Indexes | Industries | Insurance | Internet | Machinery | Market research | Medical services | Oligopoly | Online banking | Organisms | Organizations | Pensions | Pins | Planning | Presses | Production | Production facilities | Proposals | Psychology | Remuneration | Robot sensing systems | Robots | Seals | Semiotics | Senior citizens | Service robots | Social network services | Sociology | Software | Standards organizations | Steady-state | TV | Technological innovation | Time factors | Tools | Training | Twitter | Waste materials | YouTubeGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.2/5 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Prologue: an (untold) story of economy and computing -- Looking back -- Heteromation: a revised (his)story of computing -- The logic of accumulation : a story of political economy -- The dynamics of capitalist change : a story of resilience -- Possibilities and predicaments : a story of stimulus -- Varieties of heteromated labor -- Communicative labor : a story of connection -- Cognitive labor : a story of mental toil -- Creative labor : a story of mental magic -- Emotional labor : a story of caring -- Organizing labor : a story of commitment -- Looking ahead -- Mechanisms of participation : a story of rewards (and punishments) -- Governance of society : a story of "work" and institutional implosion -- Utopias : a story of revolution and reform -- Epilogue: a story of machines and us -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.
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