Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction

Paško Bilić is a Research Associate at the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) in Zagreb, CroatiaJaka Primorac is Senior Research Associate at the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, CroatiBjarki Valtysson is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark

• 1. Technology, Labour and Politics in the 21st Century: Old struggles in New Clothing; Paško Bilić, Jaka Primorac, Bjarki Valtysson.- 2. Industry 4.0: Robotics and Contradictions; Sabine Pfeiffer. 3.- From Ford to Facebook: Time and Technologies of Work; Eran Fisher.- 4. The Production of Algorithms and the Cultural Politics of Web Search; Paško Bilić.- 5. Algorithms, Dashboards and Datafication: A Critical Evaluation of Social Media Monitoring; Ivo Furman.- 6. Efficient Worker or Reflective Practitioner? Competing Technical Rationalities of Media Software Tools; Ingrid Forsler and Julia Velkova.- 7. In the Golden Cage of Creative Industries: Public-Private Valuing of Female Creative Labour;  Valerija Barada and Jaka Primorac.- 8. Digital Inclusion for Better Job Opportunities? The Case of Women E-Included through Lifelong Learning Programmes; Lidia Arroyo Prieto.- 9. A Recent Story About Uber; Brian Beaton.- 10. Protocols of Control: Collaboration in Free and Open Source Software; Reinhard Anton Handler.- 11. Playbour and the Gamification of Work: Empowerment, Exploitation and Fun as Labour Dynamics; Raul Ferrer-Conill.- 12. Audience Metrics as a Decision-making Factor in Slovene Online News Organizations; Aleksander Sašo Slaček Brlek.- 13. Media Use and the Extended Commodification of the Lifeworld; Göran Bolin.- 14. Regulation, Technology, and Civic Agency: The Case of Facebook; Bjarki Valtysson.- 15. Spinning the Web: The Contradictions of Researching and Regulating Digital Work and Labour; Pamela Meil.