In the digital age tasks are increasingly modularised and consumers are increasingly becoming prosumers. Replacing digital labour and prosumption within an American context and the wider political economy, this volume presents a critical account of the forces which shape contemporary subjects, networks, and labour practices.

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Eve Bantman-Masum, Jean Jaurès University, France Thibaut Clément, University Paris Sorbonn, UK Adam Fish, Lancaster University, UK Eran Fisher, Open University, Israel Olivier Frayssé, University Paris Sorbonne, France Ursula Huws, University of Hertfordshire, UK Arwid Lund University of Uppsala, Sweden Vincent Mosco, Queen's University, Canada Mathieu O'Neil, University of Canberra, Australia Michael Palm, University of North Carolina, USA Marie-Christine Pauwels, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, France Johan Söderberg, IFRIS/Paris-Est, France

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Introduction: Hacked in the USA: Prosumption and Digital Labour; Olivier Frayssé and Mathieu O'Neil

1. Setting the Standards: the USA and Capitalism in the Digital Age; Ursula Huws
2. How the US Counterculture Redefined Work for the Age of the Internet; Olivier Frayssé
3. The Costs of Paying, or Three Histories of Swiping; Michael Palm
   4: Work and Prosumerism: Collaborative Consumption in the United States; Marie-Christine Pauwels
4. The Moral Technical Imaginaries of Internet Convergence in an American Television Network; Adam Fish
5. Migration Machine: Marketing Mexico in the Age of ICTs; Eve Bantman-Masum
6. The Dialectics of Prosumption in the Digital Age; Eran Fisher
7. 'Whistle While You Work.' Work, Emotion, and Contests of Authority at the Happiest Place on Earth; Thibaut Clément
8. The Coming of Augmented Property: A Constructivist Lesson for the Critics of Intellectual Property; Johan Söderberg
9. Wikipedians on Wage Labour within Peer Production; Arwid Lund
   Afterword: Towards Cloud Labour; Vincent Mosco<B