Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism

Eve Bantman-Masum, Jean Jaurès University, FranceThibaut Clément, University Paris Sorbonn, UKAdam Fish, Lancaster University, UKEran Fisher, Open University, IsraelOlivier Frayssé, University Paris Sorbonne, FranceUrsula Huws, University of Hertfordshire, UKArwid Lund University of Uppsala, SwedenVincent Mosco, Queen's University, CanadaMathieu O'Neil, University of Canberra, AustraliaMichael Palm, University of North Carolina, USAMarie-Christine Pauwels, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, FranceJohan Söderberg, IFRIS/Paris-Est, France

• Introduction: Hacked in the USA: Prosumption and Digital Labour; Olivier Frayssé and Mathieu O'Neil1. Setting the Standards: the USA and Capitalism in the Digital Age; Ursula Huws2. How the US Counterculture Redefined Work for the Age of the Internet; Olivier Frayssé3. The Costs of Paying, or Three Histories of Swiping; Michael Palm4: Work and Prosumerism: Collaborative Consumption in the United States; Marie-Christine Pauwels5. The Moral Technical Imaginaries of Internet Convergence in an American Television Network; Adam Fish6. Migration Machine: Marketing Mexico in the Age of ICTs; Eve Bantman-Masum7. The Dialectics of Prosumption in the Digital Age; Eran Fisher8. 'Whistle While You Work.' Work, Emotion, and Contests of Authority at the Happiest Place on Earth; Thibaut Clément 9. The Coming of Augmented Property: A Constructivist Lesson for the Critics of Intellectual Property; Johan Söderberg10. Wikipedians on Wage Labour within Peer Production; Arwid LundAfterword: Towards Cloud Labour; Vincent Mosco

'This book will be of great interest to historians of the United States as they explore the cultural transformations of the digital age.' -Andrew Diamond, Paris-Sorbonne-University, France'Digital capitalism marks an epochal moment of historical transition, both in society and in thought. Proliferating digital devices are enabling a rapidly growing share of all human activity to be appropriated by capital. What does this signify for labour? The contributors to this volume a welcome mix of seasoned analysts and younger scholars give us tools for forging the critical reason we will need in order to understand our swiftly changing reality.'-Dan Schiller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA'Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism is a brilliant exploration of the contradictions within the social relations and the ideological underpinnings of technological utopianism and the so-called sharing economy.'-David Bensman, Rutgers University, USA'This collection is excellent reading for anyone wanting to better understand digital capitalism and why it needs to be replaced with an alternative, just, and democratic societal formation.'-Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, UK