The class structure of the virtual world is not a reproduction of the class structure of the offline world. The most decisive difference is that more young persons produce online than offline. Children, pupils, and students who do not have a regular paid employment are the primary group of exploited produsers. Expressed cynically, we can say that the Internet is one of the primary spaces for the exploitation of child labor.
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Christian Fuchs, Labor in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet (via helge) medienkompetenz, nr. 97 |
Immediacy is an ontological error; the immediacy of sense perverts the nature of thought. The opposite of such immediacy is not ‘profound’ or non-contingent sense, but rather the moving sense of a thought continuously proposing supplements to the objects abolished by its attention.
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Leo Bersani, source unknown (via Time Immemorial) medienkompetenz, nr. 96 |
MEDIUM: 2 – How To Internet | LPV Magazine
(via Tom Moody: “heavy Facebook users’ endless navel-gazing about whether likes are affecting their art.”)
medienkompetenz, nr. 95
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Twitter Fail of the Day: The hullabaloo surrounding this weekend’s 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic means a whole generation of youngsters is slowly realizing that the disaster was more than a figment of James Cameron’s imagine. Sigh.
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Twitter Fail of the Day: The hullabaloo surrounding this weekend’s 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic means a whole generation of youngsters is slowly realizing that the disaster was more than a figment of James Cameron’s imagine. Sigh.
medienkompetenz, nr. 93
