From mobile playgrounds to sweatshop city
By: Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu
Contributors: Liu, Laura Y., author; Architectural League of New York
Series: Situated technologies pamphlets -- 7; Situated technologies pamphlets -- 7.
Publisher: The Architectural League of New York
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Employees; Effect of technological innovations on; Work; Social aspects; Ubiquitous computing; Internet
Description: "Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu 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's Web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-73).