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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"digital labour"”.
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Attitudes Toward And Experiences of Digital Labour by Current and Potential Crowdworkers: A South African Perspective
Digital labour is the creation of new products and services through mainly various digital media forms in exchange for a form of remuneration. Digital labour addresses some of their critical issues in South Africa, such as high unemployment, low income and others. Digital labour initiatives, …
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DIGITAL LABOUR RELATIONS IN THE GIG ECONOMY: PLATFORM-TO-CONSUMER FOOD DELIVERY SERVICES IN GLOBAL NORTH AND GLOBAL SOUTH
… time reshaping capitalism as well as work and labour relations within it. In less than a decade, digital platforms have grown from a niche market to engulf different industries and services across the globe, in developed and developing nations alike. These models connect service providers with …
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Clouds of discontent: art, work, solidarity and digital platform labour
… to explore modes of critical engagement with digital platform labour (commonly referred to as the ‘gig economy’). Digital labour platforms act as intermediaries between buyers and sellers of labour, through which a temporary employment relation can be entered into with a few clicks of a mouse …
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The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On the Quest to be Middle-Class Wealthy and Morally Worthy
The digital labour debate has produced manifold insights into new forms of work and class relations emerging within digital capitalism. So far, however, most research has either focused on tech entrepreneurs or the highly precarious crowd and gig workers, neglecting the growing ranks of …
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An investigation into South Africans performing online erotic labour, experiences of their labour and their experiences and negotiations of stigmatisation
The lived experiences of online erotic labourers, in South Africa, is investigated in this dissertation. To investigate the experiences of digital labour and stigma, five South Africans who have performed erotic labour participated in semi-structured interviews. A qualitative research design, …
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Digital sex markets: Entrepreneurialism and consumption within an uncertain regulatory framework
Digital technologies have transformed sex markets in at least two notable ways: first, through the emergence of new digital modalities of sex work, such as webcamming; second, through the ability to purchase erotic/sexual exchanges at any time, and almost anywhere. As a fairly recent development …
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RAP IN EXILE: SYRIAN DIASPORA, HYBRIDITY AND DIGITAL CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN GERMANY
… and political subjectivity through sonic and digital practices. Situated within scholarly debates on diaspora, transnationalism and cultural citizenship, the study contends that rap operates as a pivotal medium through which exiled creators articulate experiences of fragmentation, …
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Living with and beyond breast cancer : exploring women’s use of social media to support psychosocial health
… of LwBBC. It demonstrates significant digital labour by women through use of social media to support their physical, emotional, and (anti) social experiences of LwBBC. It indicates naturally occurring networked communities as important contributors to the ongoing psychosocial support …
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Platform work in Bengaluru: worker articulations and platform design in India's informal economy
… North has a discursive hold telling us how digital labour platforms impact workers. The fear inherent in this discourse comes from the fact that many global North workers are faced with only ‘casualized' platform work rather than job opportunities that come with career progression, steady …
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Necrolabour: A postqualitative contextualisation of contemporary work in respect to the philosophy of Georges Bataille
… its base, of the protean space of contemporary labour, under the lens of French philosopher Georges Bataille (1897–1962). A historical overview of the understanding of labour reveals the contemporary moment as positioned on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene. …