From Alienation to Addiction, Stearns, Peter N.

Автор: Healy Mike
Название: Marx and Digital Machines: Alienation, Technology, Capitalism
ISBN: 1912656795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912656790
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This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or end-user, policy failure at various levels, or a combination of these. Solutions such as better technology and more effective end-user education are often put into place to solve these failures.

Mike Healy argues that such approaches are inherently faulty drawing upon qualitative research informed by Marx's theory of alienation. Using Marx's theory, he considers participants in three distinct settings: the workplace of information and communications technology (ICT) professionals; university scholars researching the ethical and societal implications of our digital environment; and a group of pensioners living in South London, UK, undertaking ICT training. By delving beneath the surface of how digital technologies are created, researched and experienced, this study illustrates the contradictory nature of our digital lives, as they directly arise from the needs of capitalism.

The book also places Marx's theory in contrast to the mainstream approaches derived from Seaman and Blauner. In researching and comprehending ICT, this book reaffirms the superior explanatory power of Marx's theory of alienation.

Автор: Stearns, Peter N.
Название: From Alienation to Addiction
ISBN: 1594515050 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594515057
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Sarrah Kassem
Название: Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization
ISBN: 1529226546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529226546
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Описание: Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner in setting the trend.This book examines two key and contrasting Amazon platforms that differ in how they organize workers: its e-commerce platform and digital labor platform (Mechanical Turk). With access to the people who are working at the heart of these platforms, it explores how different working conditions alienate workers, and how, despite these conditions, workers organize within their political-economic contexts to express their agency in traditional and alternative ways.Written for social scientists studying and researching the platform economy, this is a timely and important analysis of work and workers on the (digital) shop floor.

Автор: Clarke, David
Название: The Architecture of Alienation
ISBN: 1560001577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781560001577
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Автор: Salmenniemi
Название: Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture
ISBN: 3031105710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783031105715
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book contributes to research on therapeutic culture by drawing on longstanding ethnographic work and by offering a new theoretical reading of therapeutic culture in today`s society.