ICTs: Restructuring Labour and Capitalism by JudyA https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf Post anything anywhere en-us 2025-06-19 17:52:49 UTC 2025-06-19 20:43:34 UTC hello@padlet.com INTRODUCTION 722548_2 https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496239512 Information + communication technologies are intensifying existing capitalist structures. Digital tech is embedded in material conditions and exacerbate inequality.

]]> 2025-06-19 20:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496239512 Digital Capitalism Reinforces Inequality 722548_2 https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496239726

  • ICTs expand digital divide

  • Elites gain access to connectivity + data

  • Marginalized Groups become precarious digital labour

  • "access to tech" is a smokescreen for inequality

    • ]]>     2025-06-19 20:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496239726     ICTS: Tech Change w/o Structural Change - F. Webster 722548_2 https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496241792

  • critiques 'information society' as mythic rupture

  • ICTs deepen inequality

  • 'Weightless economy' hides labor exploitation (Google, Gmail, Youtube)

  • Feeds into austerity + deregulation

    • ]]>     2025-06-19 20:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496241792     Global Supply Chains + Centralized Control - P. Dicken 722548_2 https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496244527 • ICTs enable transnational production

    • Firms use digital tech to intensify exploitation (Amazon)

    • Power remains with multinationals

    • Technologies reinforce cor-periphery dynamics.

    • Suppresses labour resistance, more managerial control


    ]]>     2025-06-19 20:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496244527     Myth of Immaterial Labour - N. Garnham 722548_2 https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496246306 • Symbolic goods still require material production

    • Labour is behind data, content, and infrastructure

    • Affect, attention, and emotion become commodified.


    ]]>     2025-06-19 20:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496246306     AI + The Commodification of Life 722548_2 https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496247177 • AI automates surveillance, profiling, prediction

    • Extracts value from productivity + emotion

    • The Algorithm didn't choose you - it profiled you

    • deepens managerial control over workers + consumers

    ]]>     2025-06-19 20:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496247177     CONCLUSION 722548_2 https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496247953 • AI and ICTs restructure + intensify capitalism

    • Tech serves power


    ]]>     2025-06-19 20:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496247953     Intensification of Capitalist Logics 722548_2 https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496248580 2025-06-19 20:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/722548_2/kn7xvq5sgwvz1tpf/wish/3496248580