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.

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/