From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City [electronic resource].

The Architectural League of New York 2010

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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?
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Trebor Scholz
Omar Khan
Mark Shepard
Laura Y. Liu
Jena Sher