User:Bohye Woo/Second Project Proposal

SECOND PROJECT PROPOSAL

What do you want to make? What do I start with?

I propose to make a series of labour-publishing tools in which examines the modes of making labour recognizable in a different forms and methods. These labour publication will focus on bringing out how contemporary form of labour on the web is made with an unconcerned air, and what social, cultural and political implication led us to work all the time though its platform. It will show what interaction in the form of labour are made while working, and how our labours are made.

From the Special Issue 9, I got interested in lost labour/invisible labour in a digital platform where human work is taken advantage of. What kinds of labour is it that it's invisible, how does this labour made, is it unintendedly made? Invisible labour as a starting point, I would like to explore human social activities in digital platform that provides different form of labour. What contemporary form of labour in digital has been made, How is the infrastructue of digital labour has changed throughout the time and space? Through that, what responses are possible as a digital worker? To unpack this, I would like to being in a detective mode of investigation, crawing the web, finding evidences, writing a forensic report to reveal the infrastructure of digital labour.

How do you plan to make it?

I would like to investigate on how we experience the web, how human interaction through the Internet impacts on who, what is being created through human interaction, what is considered to be a work, how much did we work for who, how do we earn our value and dignity, and how can we measure this value through what medium. In order to do this, I will conduct different prototying sessions in which I can publish the labour.

First of all, I will organise a small prototyping with my personal data created from Facebook and Instagram. I will call this experiment as a 'crime scene case' in which I will make an investigation report, it might lead me to start on a new study case. By downloading my personal datas I produced, I would like to delve into investigate what kinds of data I have produced, To create this data what labour is being used, how many time I worked to create them. I will visualize them to see the possibilities of materializing the labour. With this materialised labour, a next step is to find the way to transfer into a method to calculate the value of it. Through this experiment, I can direct my way to visualise labour to a variety of different publishing tools.

Together with this prototyping, I will challenge myself on creating different types of decentralized labour publishing platform.

Relation to a larger context

Capitalism
Data colonization
Capital
Colonialism
Free software
Authorship
Dependency
Decentralization
Network

References

— platform+capitalism+nick+srnicek
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=platform+capitalism+nick+srnicek — Data colonialism by Nick Couldry
— The Internet as Playground and Factory Edited ByTrebor Scholz
Data worker: https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21038
https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/algolit/mundaneum
— adam smith's the division of labor
— karl marx's transformation of human labor into its own enslavement
— http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/flying-money-2018-investigating-illicit-financial-flows-in-the-city/