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Type: Journal article
Title: The Labour of User Co-Creators: Emergent Social Network Markets?
Author: Banks, J.
Humphreys, S.
Citation: Convergence: the international journal of research into new media technologies, 2008; 14(4):401-418
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Issue Date: 2008
ISSN: 1354-8565
1748-7382
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John Banks and Sal Humphreys
Abstract: <jats:p>Co-creative relations among professional media producers and consumers indicate a profound shift in which our frameworks and categories of analysis (such as the traditional labour theory of value) that worked well in the context of an industrial media economy are perhaps less helpful than before. Can this phenomenon just be explained as the exploitative extraction of surplus value from the work of users, or is something else, potentially more profound and challenging, playing out here? Does consumer co-creation contribute to the precarious conditions of professional creative workers? This article draws from ethnographic research undertaken from 2000 to 2005 with Auran games (a game development company based in Brisbane, Australia) to engage with debates about the status of user co-creation as labour. The article argues that as a hybrid and emergent social network market these relationships introduce a form of creative destruction to labour relations in the context of the creative industries.</jats:p>
Keywords: labour
social network markets
user-generated content
videogames
DOI: 10.1177/1354856508094660
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856508094660
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