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The Political Economy of Attention

I love this concise formulation by Trebor Scholz in Uberworked and Underpaid. From loc 338:

Every day, one billion people in advanced economies have between two billion and six billion spare hours among them. 13 Capturing and monetizing those hours is the goal of platform capitalism.

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February 9, 2017
Archive, Archiving, Digital Distraction, Personal Agency and The Reflexive Imperative, The Political Economy of Digital Capitalism, The Technological History of Digital Capitalism
Platforms
  • Who owns Digital Capitalism? Notes for the Platform Capitalism reading group
    Date
    April 29, 2018
  • Denaturalising digital capitalism
    Date
    July 24, 2017
  • Notes on Platform Capitalism
    Date
    January 14, 2017
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