[Commlist] New book: Platform Extractivism

New book: Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering 
Artificial Intelligence (University of California Press)

Author: Julián Posada, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Yale 
University

Platform Extractivism examines how the development of datasets for 
artificial intelligence depends on labor organized through “platform 
extractivism”: a system that exploits economic instability to capture 
value from precaritized workers. Drawing on mixed-methods research on 
three platforms in the Venezuelan data work sector, the book situates AI 
data work within a longer history of extractive relations and 
contributes to debates on the future of work, the political economy of 
digital platforms, and the hidden costs of AI.

Table of contents

 1.
    Data Work and Platform Extractivism
 2.
    Perpetuating Global Divisions: Venezuela and Platform Labor
 3.
    The Extractivist Cycle: How Platforms Profit from Dependence
 4.
    Whose Meaning? Data Production and Epistemic Dominance
 5.
    No Data Without Territory: Distributing the Risks of Freelancing
 6.
    Going Forward: Toward Multiple Approaches to Data Production
 7.
    The False Promises of AI


Publisher’s page: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/platform-extractivism/paper

The discount code UCPSAVE30 gives 30% off.

Contact: (julian.posada /at/ yale.edu)


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