Trebor Scholz, Laura Y. Liu: From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City (2010)

“The authors reflect on the relationship between labor and technology in urban space where communication, attention, and physical movement generate financial value for a small number of private stakeholders. Online and off, Internet users are increasingly wielded as a resource for economic amelioration, for private capture, and the channels of communication are becoming increasingly inscrutable. Liu and Scholz ask: How does the intertwining of labor and play complicate our understanding of exploitation?”

Publisher The Architectural League of New York, New York, Fall 2010
Situated Technologies Pamphlet series, 7
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
77 pages

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