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Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism
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Hamid R. EkbiaBonnie A. Nardi

The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people into work that is hidden, poorly compensated, or accepted as part of being a “user” of digital technology. Through our clicks and swipes, logins and profiles, emails and posts, we are, more or less willingly, participating in digital activities tha…

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Big Data Is Not a Monolith
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Hamid R. EkbiaCassidy R. SugimotoMichael Mattioli

Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics. Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations in large corpuses of texts. This book examines big data not as an undifferentiated whole but c…

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Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism
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Hamid R. EkbiaBonnie A. Nardi

An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation. The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people into work that is hidden, poorly compensated, or accepted as part of being a “user” of digital techn…

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