[Commlist] New book: Hyper-Exploitation in the Hacker Movement

New Book:


  /Hyper-Exploitation in the Hacker Movement/ (Lexington Book, 2023)

Yılmaz Alışkan (Dicle University)
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666918434/Hyper-Exploitation-in-the-Hacker-Movement 
<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666918434/Hyper-Exploitation-in-the-Hacker-Movement>

In this book, Yılmaz Alışkan discusses the capitalist exploitation of 
digital media and examines how free time and creativity can be exploited 
in open source communities, with corporations often benefiting from 
community-generated knowledge. Focusing on open-source hardware 
communities, in which hackers give up a considerable amount of free time 
and creativity to create open technology, Alışkan investigates how free 
time becomes a “hyper-exploited” commodity from which capital is 
increasingly accumulated. Whereas paid workers are still often 
exploited, Alışkan posits that open-source workers are further 
“hyper-exploited” by technology companies as they receive no 
compensation for their labour. Ultimately, this book reveals how the 
time and activity of volunteers in open-source communities are ripe for 
capitalist exploitation that blurs the line between leisure and work 
time, often disguised by assertions that such labour is “fun” or in line 
with volunteers’ personal interests or values. Scholars of 
communication, digital media, sociology, and labour studies will find 
this book of particular interest.

Contents:

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Hyper-Exploitation in Digital Production

Chapter 3: The Emergence of Free Time and Creativity

Chapter 4: RepRap as a Free Open Source Hardware Project

Chapter 5: Arduino as a Free Open Source Hardware Project

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography

About the Author


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