Free online content creates an unpaid emotional labor burden on its producer
Evidence
After all, Roger, and others, you have paid absolutely NOTHING for access to this site. Nor, naturally, have I received any financial remuneration for producing it. That isn’t to say that I haven’t received massive positive affect from doing it — what could be better than being part of a collective network? But it really has reached the point where I dread coming to k-punk to see what irrational spleen or spoilt boy/girl moodiness I will have to waste energy on dealing with next. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2363
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Amateur web creators faced burnout because content production needs paid labor — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 922; Digital capitalism profits from unpaid pleasurable user activity. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 197; Social media participation constitutes unpaid labor from which platforms extract value — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 505 (+12 more)
Broader Connections
- Online self-monitoring is emotional labor that cannot fully succeed due to constant platform churn
#corroborates(0.90) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 637 - Brand monitoring is exhausting unpaid emotional labor enforcing a dual gaze of self-surveillance
#exemplifies(0.88) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 491 - Amateur web creators faced burnout because content production needs paid labor
#corroborates(0.85) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 922 - Platforms’ real novelty is making users unpaid laborers reproducing their own capital
#expands(0.85) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 339 - Building an attention-grabbing Instagram feed required unpaid laborious audience-engagement work
#exemplifies(0.85) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1047 - Users freely did unpaid labor that increased Facebook’s own value
#exemplifies(0.82) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1011 - Platforms extract free labor from users in exchange for recognition and perks
#expands(0.82) - Social media participation constitutes unpaid labor from which platforms extract value
#expands(0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 505 - Voluntary user content creation constitutes unpaid labor enriching platform owners
#expands(0.80) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 338 - Posting party images online makes users unpaid workers for platforms
#exemplifies(0.80) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 463 - Platforms extract free work while paying recognition and perks instead of wages
#expands(0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 215 - Self-branding shifts economic risk onto workers while demanding constant unpaid labor
#expands(0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 524 - Digital capitalism profits from unpaid pleasurable user activity.
#expands(0.78) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 197 - Quality-content rules extract unpaid user labor benefiting platforms
#exemplifies(0.78) — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet, 211 - Networked audiences force users into unpaid labor to keep their brand image pure
#expands(0.75) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 492