The Spirit of Digital Capitalism (eBook)

Jenny Huberman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Detailed Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: An Occupational Hazard
Introduction: The Digital Age and the Spirits of Capitalism
Chapter 1: The Spirit of Competition: Crowdsourcing through Incentive Competitions
Chapter 2: The Spirit of Collaboration: Crowdsourcing through Communities
Chapter 3: The Spirit of the Game:
Smartphone Apps and the Digital Extraction of Surplus Value
Chapter 4: In the Spirit of Convenience:
Amazon Go and Surveillance Capitalism
Chapter 5: The Spirit of the Gift: The Work of Techno-philanthropy
Conclusion: The Spirit and Contradictions of Digital Capitalism
Bibliography
Endnotes

"With energetic purpose and grounded arguments, Huberman lays out the ideological spirit animating digital capitalism. This book shows how the avatars of digital capitalism through the use (and abuse) of concepts like convenience seek to convince us to embrace this new regime."
Jathan Sadowski, Monash University

"If there is one book you plan to read or assign this year to get a handle on why today's digital world feels inescapable, it should be this. Huberman offers readers crisp, elegant prose dissecting contemporary cases of the material consequences that befall us all when a few elites are gripped by an ideology of digital progress. This is at once a synthetic treatise on why we are where we are and a roadmap for pushing against the soullessness of digital economies."
Mary Gray, Microsoft Research and Harvard University