Abstract

New Perspectives for Use-Values? For a More Complex Understanding of Digital Labour

Highlights

  • This concept has recently been criticised for not recognizing the exploitative relationship between capitalist media companies and their users that engage in forms of digital labour (Fuchs & Sevignani, 2013)

  • Emanating from younger works and the critique of a market‐ and systems‐capitalism (Gibson¬‐ Graham, 1996), the article provides an understanding of media as an originary means of production to augment the concept of digital labour

  • This will allow for consideration of ‘new’ modes of production and value creation (1) as well as new forms of value (2)

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Introduction

This concept has recently been criticised for not recognizing the exploitative relationship between capitalist media companies and their users that engage in (mostly unpaid) forms of digital labour (Fuchs & Sevignani, 2013). Emanating from younger works and the critique of a market‐ and systems‐capitalism (Gibson¬‐ Graham, 1996), the article provides an understanding of media as an originary means of production to augment the concept of digital labour.

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