Cyber Proletariat Global Labour in the Digital Vortex

Dyer-Witheford, Nick

ISBN 10: 0745334032 / ISBN 13: 9780745334035

Editore: Pluto Pr, 2015

248 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. Codice articolo __0745334032

Riassunto:

Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China; devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution; an unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation. Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals how technology facilitates growing polarisation between wealthy elites and precarious workers. He reveals the class domination behind everything from expanding online surveillance to intensifying robotisation. At the same time he looks at possibilities for information technology within radical movements; contemporary struggles are cast in the blue glow of the computer screen. Cyber-Proletariat brings heterodox Marxist analysis to bear on modern technological developments. The result will be indispensable to social theorists and hacktivists alike and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how Silicon Valley shapes the way we live today.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Nick Dyer-Witheford is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. He is author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism (University of Illinois, 1999), and co-author of Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture, and Marketing (McGill-Queen's, 2003) and Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

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Titolo: Cyber Proletariat Global Labour in the ...
Casa editrice: Pluto Pr
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Brand New