Digital Communication 3205F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Citizen Journalism, Network Effect, Core Data

• School: Western University
• Department: Digital Communication
• Course: Digital Communication 3205F/G
• Professor: Paul Aitken

Document Summary

The role of immaterial labor is to promote continual innovation in the forms and conditions of communication (and thus in work and consumption). This activity makes immediately apparent something that material production had "hidden," namely, that labor produces not only commodities, but first and foremost it produces the capital relation. Autonomy: lazzarato"s hypothesis, the cycle of immaterial labor takes as its starting point a social labor power that is independent and able to organize both its own work and its relations with business entities. Autonomy: this new labor power is [not] merely functional to a new historical phase of capitalism and its processes of accumulation and reproduction. This labor power is the product of a "silent revolution" taking place within the anthropological realities of work and within the reconfiguration of its meanings. Waged labor and direct subjugation (to organization) no longer constitute the principal form of the contractual relationship between capitalist and worker.