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Creative Digital Platform Work and New Labour Protection in China

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The digital labour economy is a system where work is mediated through digital technologies and online platforms. Work is often also called platform labour or gig work. China has brought out new labour protections to promote and support these new forms of
Emma Duester
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THE ROLE OF DIGITAL SKILLS AND DIGITALISATION IN ENHANCING LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY IN THE EU [PDF]

Collection of Papers New Economy
Digitalisation and digital skills are often considered key factors shaping labour productivity and international competitiveness. The paper aims to examine the potential relationship between the level of digital skills and labour productivity.
Jan Hunady, Eleonora Demeova, Veronika Chylakova   +2 more
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Digital Labour and The Generation of Surplus Value on Instagram

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2022
The aim of this paper is to provide a map of the economy of social media platforms. We analyse digital labour on Instagram. The article asks: How are the users, who provide unpaid labour on Instagram, exploited?
Forouzan Yazdanipoor, Hady Faramarzi, Abdollah Bicharanlou   +2 more
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Open access monographs: a humanities research perspective [PDF]

, 2014
This article discusses the thoughts of a humanities researcher in relation to open access (OA) publishing. Digital media have dramatically improved access to historic texts but library e-books are frustrating due to software and loan arrangements ...
Cheshire, Jim
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LABOUR AND DIGITIZATION

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2019
In 2011, artist Andrew Norman Wilson was working as a subcontractor doing video work for Google at the Mountainview California Googleplex. He’d noticed that the workers entering and exiting the building next door had different working conditions to the majority of the workers at the site and discovered they were working on the Google Books mass ...
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The Phenomenon of Digital Labour Platforms

Studia z zakresu Prawa Pracy i Polityki Społecznej, 2020
In all EU Member States the status of people employed on job platforms is not fully legally regulated. It is necessary to consider the sources of the contemporary phenomenon of electronic employment, which is not amenable to legal regulation in the Union constituting an “area of freedom, security and justice with respect for fundamental rights” (Art ...
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Marx, Materialism and the Brain: Determination in the Last Instance?

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018
It is well acknowledged that there is not one but many Marxes, and one area where this has been most evident is in the question of technological and economic determinism.
Joss Hands
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Producing Value Out of the Invaluable: A Critical/Cultural Perspective on the Live Streaming Industry in China

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018
This paper extends the critique of informational capitalism to increasingly commercialised cyberspace in China by examining the case of live streaming.
Sheng Zou
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The SNP, cultural policy and the idea of the "creative economy" [PDF]

, 2009
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Schlesinger, P.
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Open Education and the Hidden Tariff [PDF]

, 2016
This paper explores the promise of that Open Educational Resources (OER) would democratise access to education and ennui of many within the movement as the revolution is always just around the corner. It develops from earlier work which asked whether OER
Macintyre, Ronald
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