From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City
<p>The authors reflect on the relationship between labor and technology in urban space where communication, attention, and physical movement generate financial value for a small number of private stakeholders. Online and off, Internet users are increasingly wielded as a resource for economic amelioration, for private capture, and the channels of communication are becoming increasingly inscrutable. Liu and Scholz ask: How does the intertwining of labor and play complicate our understanding of exploitation?</p>
Editors: Trebor Scholz, Omar Khan, Mark Shepard
Authors: Trebor Scholz, Laura Y. Liu
Designer: Jena Sher
The Architectural League of New York
Part of: Situated Technologies
ISBN: 978-0-9800994-6-1