Tweaking Technocapitalism: A Limited Intervention into Amazon Mechanical Turk

Submitted by lirani on Feb 02, 2009, 06:07 AM
Cross-posted at differenceengines but I would love references to relevant work on digital labor, informatization, and meatworld analogs.

Accountabilities of Crowds

Submitted by lirani on Dec 03, 2008, 02:05 AM

Thanks to Jim for an interesting post on collaboration in Wikipedia. He argues that wikipdia isn't so much a wisdom of crowds phenomenon, but a mass collaboration that happens among actors who may or may not know what will become of their work. 

I've been w

Software Studies Workshop videos available

Submitted by lirani on Oct 24, 2008, 04:19 AM
Last May, UC San Diego put on softwhere 2008, the second annual Software Studies Workshop. Speakers included folks like Geof Bowker, Warren Sack, Ian Bogost, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Phoebe Sengers. For most of us who couldn't be there, each particip

The Future of Writing - 2 day workshop at UC Irvine

Submitted by lirani on Oct 07, 2008, 05:33 PM
The Future of Writing, a 2 day workshop at UC Irvine, explores what it means to inscribe, author, utter, and collaborate with changing technologies of production, distribution and reading. And all this in a world of transnational flows! Speakers include David Theo Goldberg, Tara McPherson, Liz Losh, and Antoinette LaFarge. The workshop is free and open to the public.