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Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy
In between bubble and burst, e-commerce drew much of its content from donated labor. Tiziana Terranova questions just how "free" such labor has proved in practice.
Social Worlds of the Information Society: Lessons from the Calumet Region
U.S. Steel chiefs and AOL-Time Warner executives span one hundred years of decimation wrapped in rhetoric. John Monberg annotates their enduring logics of expansion.
Electronic Pies in the Poetry Skies
Charles Bernstein's reflections on populism, democracy, and authority in the turbulent waters of web discussion groups and other new Internet sites.