Transgressing between consumption and production: Materialistic outlook on the digital labour of prosumers

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz Mika
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

This article explores the subject of unpaid digital labour on the Internet. Often presented as co-creation or prod-using the work of that kind is the matter of much controversy. The article tries to critically refer to the most popular concepts, reaches out to the authors using the Marxian dictionary, detail their arguments, and finally propose their own typology. The text treats the hypothesis about the vanishing boundaries between production and consumption as unprofitable. The distinction between personal and private property and the use and exchange value are highlighted to precisely define the place of quasiwork in the social division of labour.

scholarly journals Funkcje form komicznych (memów internetowych i dowcipów) związanych z pandemią COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-270
Author(s):  
Dorota Szagun
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Main Channel ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Reaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Stranger

The subject of the study is the analysis of a series of Internet memes and linguistic jokes made available in pseudomemic form in connection with the COVID-19 pan­demic. Comedy itself feeds on any deviations from the norm observed in social, and especially political, life; it captures all the aberrations, nonsense and inconsistencies. The pandemic emergency is fraught with new situations and rules that constitute such a deviation. A vivid social reaction is especially visible in the multisemiotic comic genres, such as Internet memes, due to their channel of entry (the Internet becomes the main channel of communication outside of family communities during social isolation), plasticity and susceptibility to replication. Comic forms, apart from peculiarly ludic and humorous functions, also perform persuasive functions, activating the social need to differentiate between oneself and the stranger, and consequently isolate or integrate certain social groups. In addition, Internet memes also serve as a commentary on current events, thus prompting the audience to take a position. Persuasion dressed in a comic costume seems to be one of the strongest ways of social influence, because it spreads in its innocent and playful form like a viral and becomes firmly fixed in social consciousness.

From Production Systems to Learning Systems: Lessons from Japan

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 797-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Patchell
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Social ◽  
External Governance ◽  
The Creation

The need to advance the conventional understanding of production systems as fixed flows of goods and services to dynamic systems based on learning is discussed. The theory advanced is based on research on the Japanese robot industry. The paper opens with a discussion of the meaning of flexibility in a dynamic economy to expose the social division of labour as the foundation of the creation and evolution of production systems. Production systems are established to obtain the scale and scope economies offered by the independent firms of the social division of labour. The necessity to organize production requires the creation of some type of an internal or external governance structure. The Japanese have developed a social technology that resolves the transaction cost trade-offs confronting North American industry between internal and external governance structures. Asanuma's relation-specific skill is discussed as the crux for comprehending the shift from production systems to learning systems.

scholarly journals Possible influence of social media on shaping the image of nurses on the Internet

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Piotr Pawłowski ◽  
Daria Makuch ◽  
Paulina Mazurek ◽  
Adrianna Bartoszek ◽  
Alicja Artych ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
High Level ◽  
Offensive Language

AbstractIntroduction. Nowadays, a professional image is an important element of the identity of individual professions. Its formation is a difficult process, dependent on many factors, including the use of new communication channels, such as social media, which in recent years have become a space for expressing social opinion, including those concerning individual professions.Aim. The analysis of the possibilities of using social media in shaping the image of nurses on the Internet.Material and methods. The study was carried out using the comparative method. The subject of the research were websites (fanpages) related to the professional environment of nurses on the social networking site Facebook.com, chosen deliberately according to the adopted criteria.Findings. During the research, differences in the strategy of administering the analyzed websites were identified, depending mainly on the subject matter and purpose of publishing the content. The topicality, visual attractiveness and cohesion were characterized by a high level. The posts appearing on individual websites were written in the language of the recipients, with different publication frequency. The websites created a long-term group of recipients and tried to influence the image of nursing in Poland in a positive way.Conclusions. Content published on social media can affect both the positive and negative image of the nurse in the public opinion. Among the factors that do not affect the image of nurses can be indicated, among others, offensive language of comments and displaying negative traits of nurses. Positive reception guarantees current knowledge in the field of nursing and emphasizing professional competences.

scholarly journals Sociological theorizing as meaning making: the case of ecological modernization theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Philippe Sapinski
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Mirror Image ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Business Elite ◽  
The Social

In this paper, I propose a novel way to consider sociological theorizing. I argue that the structural analysis method first developed by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss provides a powerful tool to deconstruct and critique sociological theories. I propose that this method can be used to redefine certain theories not as sets of proposals from which testable hypotheses are to be derived, but rather as different versions of foundational narratives of Western society. Viewed in this way, sociological theorizing contributes to construct the Western cosmology – the body of tales and narratives that explain the creation of the social world, its relationship with nature, and its future direction.As a case in point, I argue that the narrative of ecological modernization can thus be analyzed and deconstructed using the same tools Lévi-Strauss uses to make sense of native American cosmologies. Doing so, I find that the narrative of ecological modernization developed as a mirror image of older tales of modernization, closely associated with the myth of progress – according to which Western society emerged from a state of nature in which no rational division of labour and no private property existed. This inversion transforms the myth of creation at the heart of the modern Western cosmology into a utopian narrative that finds considerable political traction with a certain part of the business elite and associated organic intellectuals, interested in maintaining existing relations of production and power.

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